{"title":"Gary Lee","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"gary-lee-heat","title":"Gary Lee, Heat","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor\/Creator: Gary Lee \u0026amp; Maurice O'Riordan\u003cbr\u003eTitle: Heat: Gary Lee, selected text, art \u0026amp; anthropology \/ Gary Lee; Maurice O’Riordan. \u003cbr\u003eYear: 2023\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Darwin, NT: Dishevel books\u003cbr\u003eSize: 398 pages : coloured illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“an instant classic … “ Dr Dino Hodge, author \/ activist, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eDishevel books is proud to release its debut title, Heat: Gary Lee, selected writings, art \u0026amp; anthropology. Heat is a voluminous anthology traversing five decades of a unique, diverse practice in art (photography, illustration, design, fashion design), anthropology, writing and curating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eFrom a late ’80s student newspaper article to more recent writings for the Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, and the first collection of queer Indigenous poetry, Heat attests to an undeniably strong and significant voice in the cultural landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e“It’s fair to say”, writes editor Maurice O’Riordan, “that Gary has been pretty direct in taking aim at certain targets perhaps even more deftly, necessarily, than the ways in which he has been made a target – as a black, gay man, as a Larrakia voice, and with his work contentious even for other black, gay or Larrakia voices … such heat is part of the friction, of rubbing up against the status quo or plain ignorance by simply spelling out his perspective.” (Introduction, p. 11).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eHeat brings together Lee’s texts which have been published in numerous journals, magazines and books including in the Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art (2000), Lying about the landscape (1997), and catalogues for seminal Aboriginal art exhibitions Aratjara: Art of the First Australians: Contemporary Works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists (1993) and the inaugural Culture Warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial (2007). Heat is also notable for including previously unpublished texts drawing on a range of speeches, presentations and essays and also a letter to Gordon Bennett – a companion piece to Bennett’s letter to Lee, in Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings (2020). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eHeat features Lee’s writings on his own visual arts practice and broader creative life along with three scenes from his groundbreaking play Keep Him My Heart: A Larrakia-Filipino Love Story (1993).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eThe book’s anthropology reach takes in some of Lee’s pioneering work in the field of Indigenous queer sexual health, particularly in response to the HIV\/AIDS pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eHis writings on Larrakia history and identity are a steady force throughout, offering an unprecedented record of Larrakia-related texts (words and images) in a single published work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemInfo_row__L3mSl ____id__itemInfoWrapper__2EP8C\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGary was awarded Best Writing by an Indigenous Australian for Heat, in the 2024 Art Writing and Publishing Awards hosted by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eOn Heat by Tristan Harwood (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.artlink.com.au\/articles\/5137\/exhibition-and-book-review-gary-lee-midling-28larra\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.artlink.com.au\/articles\/5137\/exhibition-and-book-review-gary-lee-midling-28larra\/\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeat\u003c\/em\u003e is a perfect title for a book on Lee’s career as artist, curator, writer, and anthropologist. There is the heat of Darwin, Lee’s hometown, and heat as metaphor for the desire in Lee’s photographs of semi-nude and nude bodies. Across the pages, heat acts as a kind of metonym for the moral policing the artist has encountered. Lee has copped heat from the kind of motherfuckers who in the private brutality of their delicate sensibilities don’t want to see what Lee sees as the beautiful faces, arms, abdomens, cocks and legs of the people he photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn one instance at the 2006 \u003cem\u003eDreaming Festival\u003c\/em\u003e in Woodford on the Sunshine Coast, Lee’s series \u003cem\u003eNice Coloured Boys\u003c\/em\u003e (1994–), a homoerotic study of elastic masculinity, was censored by the festival staff. In \u003cem\u003eHeat\u003c\/em\u003e, in conversation with the eminent artist Tracey Moffatt, Lee recounts having to take down his exhibition because of pressure from festival staff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContrary to this kind of anecdote, the Lee of \u003cem\u003eHeat\u003c\/em\u003e isn’t an artist who courts controversy, rather he constantly works toward complexity in expression, seeking an eloquent articulation of qualities that are beautiful but have often been cast as otherwise. Lee is perennially the artist of otherwise. Reading \u003cem\u003eHeat\u003c\/em\u003e, the history of Indigenous art is a queer and trans history in that Indigenous art is always elusive to—and in excess of—any normative definition. The way Jack Halberstam puts it in \u003cem\u003eTrans*\u003c\/em\u003e is that typological naming, or ‘the mania for godlike naming began, unsurprisingly, with colonial exploration.’ The otherwise is that which never collapses under any such name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the middle of \u003cem\u003eHeat\u003c\/em\u003e, the article ‘Love doesn’t have a colour’ concurrently chronicles the love story between Lee and O’Riordan, doubling as a critical engagement with the interplay between racism and homophobia as experienced by an Aboriginal and an Irish-Australian gay male couple. Here, text and image are inextricable. The tone of the text is set by a photograph of Lee and O’Riordan taken in the backseat of a car in 1991 in the vein of Wong Kar-wai’s 1997 film, \u003cem\u003eHappy Together\u003c\/em\u003e. Taken six years before the film’s release, the photo, (although not taken by Lee), demonstrates how the artist is in dialogue with—and has sometimes pre-empted—traditions of queer image-making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeat\u003c\/em\u003e sways the understanding of Indigenous art history. Like \u003cem\u003emidling\u003c\/em\u003e, it is grounded in a Larrakia lifeway, in what is known inter alia as Darwin. What’s different is that the book as an object can go walkabout and is here with me now in an apartment on Wurundjeri Country. I’ve got it on the table sitting with Fred Moten’s \u003cem\u003ePerennial Fashion Presence Falling\u003c\/em\u003e (2023) and it’s like the two of ‘em really been talking, when Moten writes ‘can that we survive destroy what we survive…?’ and Lee responds: ‘art […] begins with the recognition of irreparable loss.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemInfo_row__L3mSl ____id__itemInfoWrapper__2EP8C\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemInfo_label__ZLFDp\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlternative title \u003cspan\u003eHeat : Gary Lee, selected text, art and anthropology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemInfo_row__L3mSl ____id__itemInfoWrapper__2EP8C\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemInfo_label__ZLFDp\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCall Numbers \u003cspan\u003eHQ 2025\/0566\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemInfo_row__L3mSl ____id__itemInfoWrapper__2EP8C\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemInfo_label__ZLFDp\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecord Identifier 74VKL6gX7e6d\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemInfo_row__L3mSl ____id__itemInfoWrapper__2EP8C\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemInfo_label__ZLFDp\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMMS ID 9910\u003cstrong\u003e2466192970\u003c\/strong\u003e2626\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Suita7a","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46894408073434,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/8543\/8682\/files\/1_-Heat-Book-cover_9d89f88f-604f-42c6-811a-273b71874c9d.jpg?v=1758504071"},{"product_id":"gary-lee-nice-coloured-boys","title":"Gary Lee, Nice Coloured Boys, Beautiful beggar Mysore","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist: Gary Lee \u0026amp; Maurice O'Riordan\u003cbr\u003eTitle: Nice Coloured Boys, Beautiful beggar, Mysore\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2026\u003cbr\u003eSize: 29cm x 19.5cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemInfo_row__L3mSl ____id__itemInfoWrapper__2EP8C\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ItemInfo_label__ZLFDp\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePhotographs from Bangladesh, India and Nepal from 1993 to early 2000s; first editioned as prints in 2025-2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eType C prints on Ilford cottonrag paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eedition: 2 x A\/Ps + 1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNice Coloured Boys commemorates the distinguished practice of Gary Lee — artist,\u003cbr\u003ewriter, curator, designer and anthropologist. The exhibition offers a glimpse into the past\u003cbr\u003ewhen Lee, a young, gay Larrakia Aboriginal man from Darwin, moved to Sydney in the\u003cbr\u003eearly 1980s to pursue a career as a visual artist. As fate would have it, he arrived a\u003cbr\u003eyear earlier than his enrolment at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) so he busied\u003cbr\u003ehimself with part-time studies at Alexander Mackie College and making hand-painted\u003cbr\u003esilk scarves, cards and jewellery for a stall with his cousin Laura Lee at Paddy’s Markets. The much sought-after stall space at Paddy’s Markets belonged to their Auntie Stella who was happy to hand it over to them for a time. Gary also teamed up with ex-\u003cbr\u003eDarwinite Andrew Trewin to design clothes, a collaboration which eventually saw him\u003cbr\u003eleave SCA at the end of the following year to undertake fashion designing full-time,\u003cbr\u003eworking out of studios in The Strand and Imperial arcades in Sydney’s CBD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few years after graduating as an anthropologist, Gary commenced his\u003cbr\u003elong-running photo-portrait series Nice Coloured Boys in Dhaka, Bangladesh in\u003cbr\u003e1993—work which he has often referred to as visual anthropology. He was in Dhaka as a delegate, a guest curator for two Aboriginal art exhibitions touring a number of South Asian countries under the auspices of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the exhibitions, The Image Black, had been curated by Tracey Moffatt, her film\u003cbr\u003eNice Coloured Girls (1987) consciously referenced with Nice Coloured Boys.\u003cbr\u003eAgain, the political nexus of race\/colour and beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe works from Nice Coloured Boys in this exhibition come from the series’ formative\u003cbr\u003eyears, from 1993 to the early 2000s, portraits of men in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.\u003cbr\u003eThey are all newly editioned prints except for the six-part frieze Bablu, milk boy which\u003cbr\u003ewas first editioned for the exhibition Queer Territory in 2025 and which were the first\u003cbr\u003epublished photographs from Nice Coloured Boys (published in Photofile magazine, issue no. 55, ‘Happy Snap’, November 1998). The series itself is emblematic of Gary’s approach to art-making, marked by a humanism both profound and every-day and which seeks, through the various bodies of work in this exhibition, to stand the test of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eGary Lee is a Larrakia artist, curator, anthropologist and writer. His visual arts practice\u003cbr\u003eincludes photography, illustration, fashion design and design although he primarily works\u003cbr\u003eas a photographer. His photography focuses on male portraiture largely through a street\u003cbr\u003ephotography methodology which he began in the early 1990s in South Asia with his series Nice Coloured Boys which celebrates the beauty and diversity of coloured men and which was triggered by an appreciation that the look of men from these countries (initially India, Bangladesh and Nepal) reminded him of Aboriginal men in his hometown Darwin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn 2022, Gary won the Work on Paper Award at the Telstra National Aboriginal Art Awards\u003cbr\u003efor Nagi, 2022, a hand-coloured photo-portrait in tribute to his maternal grandfather Juan (John) Cubillo who was killed in the Bombing of Darwin, 1942. A book on Gary’s work, Heat: Gary Lee, selected texts, art \u0026amp; anthropology, was published in 2023 by dishevel books, Darwin. Heat was launched in Darwin as part of Gary’s solo exhibition midling (Larrakia: together), Coconut Studios, shown as part of the 2023 Darwin Festival. Heat was also launched in Sydney (as part of Gary’s solo exhibition midling 2, The Cross Art Projects, shown in parallel with the 2024 Sydney Mardi Gras Festival and the 2024 Biennale of Sydney), and in Melbourne as part of the solo exhibition Heat \/ Keep Him My Heart at Swarf gallery, Brunswick (curated by Tristen Harwood and Lauren Burrow). Heat was awarded Best Art Writing by an Indigenous Writer at the 2024 Art Writing and Publishing Awards hosted by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSince 2006 Gary has held 17 solo exhibitions in Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth,\u003cbr\u003eBrisbane, Canberra and Auckland and including his current exhibition at Suite7a. 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As fate would have it, he arrived a\u003cbr\u003eyear earlier than his enrolment at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) so he busied\u003cbr\u003ehimself with part-time studies at Alexander Mackie College and making hand-painted\u003cbr\u003esilk scarves, cards and jewellery for a stall with his cousin Laura Lee at Paddy’s Markets. The much sought-after stall space at Paddy’s Markets belonged to their Auntie Stella who was happy to hand it over to them for a time. Gary also teamed up with ex-\u003cbr\u003eDarwinite Andrew Trewin to design clothes, a collaboration which eventually saw him\u003cbr\u003eleave SCA at the end of the following year to undertake fashion designing full-time,\u003cbr\u003eworking out of studios in The Strand and Imperial arcades in Sydney’s CBD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few years after graduating as an anthropologist, Gary commenced his\u003cbr\u003elong-running photo-portrait series Nice Coloured Boys in Dhaka, Bangladesh in\u003cbr\u003e1993—work which he has often referred to as visual anthropology. He was in Dhaka as a delegate, a guest curator for two Aboriginal art exhibitions touring a number of South Asian countries under the auspices of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the exhibitions, The Image Black, had been curated by Tracey Moffatt, her film\u003cbr\u003eNice Coloured Girls (1987) consciously referenced with Nice Coloured Boys.\u003cbr\u003eAgain, the political nexus of race\/colour and beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe works from Nice Coloured Boys in this exhibition come from the series’ formative\u003cbr\u003eyears, from 1993 to the early 2000s, portraits of men in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.\u003cbr\u003eThey are all newly editioned prints except for the six-part frieze Bablu, milk boy which\u003cbr\u003ewas first editioned for the exhibition Queer Territory in 2025 and which were the first\u003cbr\u003epublished photographs from Nice Coloured Boys (published in Photofile magazine, issue no. 55, ‘Happy Snap’, November 1998). The series itself is emblematic of Gary’s approach to art-making, marked by a humanism both profound and every-day and which seeks, through the various bodies of work in this exhibition, to stand the test of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eGary Lee is a Larrakia artist, curator, anthropologist and writer. His visual arts practice\u003cbr\u003eincludes photography, illustration, fashion design and design although he primarily works\u003cbr\u003eas a photographer. 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Heat was launched in Darwin as part of Gary’s solo exhibition midling (Larrakia: together), Coconut Studios, shown as part of the 2023 Darwin Festival. Heat was also launched in Sydney (as part of Gary’s solo exhibition midling 2, The Cross Art Projects, shown in parallel with the 2024 Sydney Mardi Gras Festival and the 2024 Biennale of Sydney), and in Melbourne as part of the solo exhibition Heat \/ Keep Him My Heart at Swarf gallery, Brunswick (curated by Tristen Harwood and Lauren Burrow). Heat was awarded Best Art Writing by an Indigenous Writer at the 2024 Art Writing and Publishing Awards hosted by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSince 2006 Gary has held 17 solo exhibitions in Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth,\u003cbr\u003eBrisbane, Canberra and Auckland and including his current exhibition at Suite7a. 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Gary also teamed up with ex-\u003cbr\u003eDarwinite Andrew Trewin to design clothes, a collaboration which eventually saw him\u003cbr\u003eleave SCA at the end of the following year to undertake fashion designing full-time,\u003cbr\u003eworking out of studios in The Strand and Imperial arcades in Sydney’s CBD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few years after graduating as an anthropologist, Gary commenced his\u003cbr\u003elong-running photo-portrait series Nice Coloured Boys in Dhaka, Bangladesh in\u003cbr\u003e1993—work which he has often referred to as visual anthropology. 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Heat was launched in Darwin as part of Gary’s solo exhibition midling (Larrakia: together), Coconut Studios, shown as part of the 2023 Darwin Festival. Heat was also launched in Sydney (as part of Gary’s solo exhibition midling 2, The Cross Art Projects, shown in parallel with the 2024 Sydney Mardi Gras Festival and the 2024 Biennale of Sydney), and in Melbourne as part of the solo exhibition Heat \/ Keep Him My Heart at Swarf gallery, Brunswick (curated by Tristen Harwood and Lauren Burrow). Heat was awarded Best Art Writing by an Indigenous Writer at the 2024 Art Writing and Publishing Awards hosted by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSince 2006 Gary has held 17 solo exhibitions in Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth,\u003cbr\u003eBrisbane, Canberra and Auckland and including his current exhibition at Suite7a. 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As fate would have it, he arrived a\u003cbr\u003eyear earlier than his enrolment at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) so he busied\u003cbr\u003ehimself with part-time studies at Alexander Mackie College and making hand-painted\u003cbr\u003esilk scarves, cards and jewellery for a stall with his cousin Laura Lee at Paddy’s Markets. The much sought-after stall space at Paddy’s Markets belonged to their Auntie Stella who was happy to hand it over to them for a time. Gary also teamed up with ex-\u003cbr\u003eDarwinite Andrew Trewin to design clothes, a collaboration which eventually saw him\u003cbr\u003eleave SCA at the end of the following year to undertake fashion designing full-time,\u003cbr\u003eworking out of studios in The Strand and Imperial arcades in Sydney’s CBD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few years after graduating as an anthropologist, Gary commenced his\u003cbr\u003elong-running photo-portrait series Nice Coloured Boys in Dhaka, Bangladesh in\u003cbr\u003e1993—work which he has often referred to as visual anthropology. He was in Dhaka as a delegate, a guest curator for two Aboriginal art exhibitions touring a number of South Asian countries under the auspices of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the exhibitions, The Image Black, had been curated by Tracey Moffatt, her film\u003cbr\u003eNice Coloured Girls (1987) consciously referenced with Nice Coloured Boys.\u003cbr\u003eAgain, the political nexus of race\/colour and beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe works from Nice Coloured Boys in this exhibition come from the series’ formative\u003cbr\u003eyears, from 1993 to the early 2000s, portraits of men in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.\u003cbr\u003eThey are all newly editioned prints except for the six-part frieze Bablu, milk boy which\u003cbr\u003ewas first editioned for the exhibition Queer Territory in 2025 and which were the first\u003cbr\u003epublished photographs from Nice Coloured Boys (published in Photofile magazine, issue no. 55, ‘Happy Snap’, November 1998). The series itself is emblematic of Gary’s approach to art-making, marked by a humanism both profound and every-day and which seeks, through the various bodies of work in this exhibition, to stand the test of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eGary Lee is a Larrakia artist, curator, anthropologist and writer. His visual arts practice\u003cbr\u003eincludes photography, illustration, fashion design and design although he primarily works\u003cbr\u003eas a photographer. His photography focuses on male portraiture largely through a street\u003cbr\u003ephotography methodology which he began in the early 1990s in South Asia with his series Nice Coloured Boys which celebrates the beauty and diversity of coloured men and which was triggered by an appreciation that the look of men from these countries (initially India, Bangladesh and Nepal) reminded him of Aboriginal men in his hometown Darwin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn 2022, Gary won the Work on Paper Award at the Telstra National Aboriginal Art Awards\u003cbr\u003efor Nagi, 2022, a hand-coloured photo-portrait in tribute to his maternal grandfather Juan (John) Cubillo who was killed in the Bombing of Darwin, 1942. A book on Gary’s work, Heat: Gary Lee, selected texts, art \u0026amp; anthropology, was published in 2023 by dishevel books, Darwin. Heat was launched in Darwin as part of Gary’s solo exhibition midling (Larrakia: together), Coconut Studios, shown as part of the 2023 Darwin Festival. Heat was also launched in Sydney (as part of Gary’s solo exhibition midling 2, The Cross Art Projects, shown in parallel with the 2024 Sydney Mardi Gras Festival and the 2024 Biennale of Sydney), and in Melbourne as part of the solo exhibition Heat \/ Keep Him My Heart at Swarf gallery, Brunswick (curated by Tristen Harwood and Lauren Burrow). Heat was awarded Best Art Writing by an Indigenous Writer at the 2024 Art Writing and Publishing Awards hosted by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSince 2006 Gary has held 17 solo exhibitions in Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth,\u003cbr\u003eBrisbane, Canberra and Auckland and including his current exhibition at Suite7a. 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As fate would have it, he arrived a\u003cbr\u003eyear earlier than his enrolment at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) so he busied\u003cbr\u003ehimself with part-time studies at Alexander Mackie College and making hand-painted\u003cbr\u003esilk scarves, cards and jewellery for a stall with his cousin Laura Lee at Paddy’s Markets. The much sought-after stall space at Paddy’s Markets belonged to their Auntie Stella who was happy to hand it over to them for a time. Gary also teamed up with ex-\u003cbr\u003eDarwinite Andrew Trewin to design clothes, a collaboration which eventually saw him\u003cbr\u003eleave SCA at the end of the following year to undertake fashion designing full-time,\u003cbr\u003eworking out of studios in The Strand and Imperial arcades in Sydney’s CBD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few years after graduating as an anthropologist, Gary commenced his\u003cbr\u003elong-running photo-portrait series Nice Coloured Boys in Dhaka, Bangladesh in\u003cbr\u003e1993—work which he has often referred to as visual anthropology. He was in Dhaka as a delegate, a guest curator for two Aboriginal art exhibitions touring a number of South Asian countries under the auspices of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the exhibitions, The Image Black, had been curated by Tracey Moffatt, her film\u003cbr\u003eNice Coloured Girls (1987) consciously referenced with Nice Coloured Boys.\u003cbr\u003eAgain, the political nexus of race\/colour and beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe four risographs in this exhibition also take their cue from original drawings by Gary from the 1980s and 1990s. Like Gary’s fashion design, Study for Black Madonna # 1 belies an interest in the iconography of beauty along with his burgeoning politicisation of colour and race. He eventually quit the world of fashion and the bright lights of Sydney to work at an Aboriginal art centre in Katherine, NT, and to pursue studies in anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eGary Lee is a Larrakia artist, curator, anthropologist and writer. His visual arts practice\u003cbr\u003eincludes photography, illustration, fashion design and design although he primarily works\u003cbr\u003eas a photographer. His photography focuses on male portraiture largely through a street\u003cbr\u003ephotography methodology which he began in the early 1990s in South Asia with his series Nice Coloured Boys which celebrates the beauty and diversity of coloured men and which was triggered by an appreciation that the look of men from these countries (initially India, Bangladesh and Nepal) reminded him of Aboriginal men in his hometown Darwin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn 2022, Gary won the Work on Paper Award at the Telstra National Aboriginal Art Awards\u003cbr\u003efor Nagi, 2022, a hand-coloured photo-portrait in tribute to his maternal grandfather Juan (John) Cubillo who was killed in the Bombing of Darwin, 1942. A book on Gary’s work, Heat: Gary Lee, selected texts, art \u0026amp; anthropology, was published in 2023 by dishevel books, Darwin. Heat was launched in Darwin as part of Gary’s solo exhibition midling (Larrakia: together), Coconut Studios, shown as part of the 2023 Darwin Festival. Heat was also launched in Sydney (as part of Gary’s solo exhibition midling 2, The Cross Art Projects, shown in parallel with the 2024 Sydney Mardi Gras Festival and the 2024 Biennale of Sydney), and in Melbourne as part of the solo exhibition Heat \/ Keep Him My Heart at Swarf gallery, Brunswick (curated by Tristen Harwood and Lauren Burrow). Heat was awarded Best Art Writing by an Indigenous Writer at the 2024 Art Writing and Publishing Awards hosted by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSince 2006 Gary has held 17 solo exhibitions in Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth,\u003cbr\u003eBrisbane, Canberra and Auckland and including his current exhibition at Suite7a. 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His photography focuses on male portraiture largely through a street\u003cbr\u003ephotography methodology which he began in the early 1990s in South Asia with his series Nice Coloured Boys which celebrates the beauty and diversity of coloured men and which was triggered by an appreciation that the look of men from these countries (initially India, Bangladesh and Nepal) reminded him of Aboriginal men in his hometown Darwin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn 2022, Gary won the Work on Paper Award at the Telstra National Aboriginal Art Awards\u003cbr\u003efor Nagi, 2022, a hand-coloured photo-portrait in tribute to his maternal grandfather Juan (John) Cubillo who was killed in the Bombing of Darwin, 1942. A book on Gary’s work, Heat: Gary Lee, selected texts, art \u0026amp; anthropology, was published in 2023 by dishevel books, Darwin. 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He was in Dhaka as a delegate, a guest curator for two Aboriginal art exhibitions touring a number of South Asian countries under the auspices of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the exhibitions, The Image Black, had been curated by Tracey Moffatt, her film\u003cbr\u003eNice Coloured Girls (1987) consciously referenced with Nice Coloured Boys.\u003cbr\u003eAgain, the political nexus of race\/colour and beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe four risographs in this exhibition also take their cue from original drawings by Gary from the 1980s and 1990s. Like Gary’s fashion design, Study for Black Madonna # 1 belies an interest in the iconography of beauty along with his burgeoning politicisation of colour and race. 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His photography focuses on male portraiture largely through a street\u003cbr\u003ephotography methodology which he began in the early 1990s in South Asia with his series Nice Coloured Boys which celebrates the beauty and diversity of coloured men and which was triggered by an appreciation that the look of men from these countries (initially India, Bangladesh and Nepal) reminded him of Aboriginal men in his hometown Darwin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn 2022, Gary won the Work on Paper Award at the Telstra National Aboriginal Art Awards\u003cbr\u003efor Nagi, 2022, a hand-coloured photo-portrait in tribute to his maternal grandfather Juan (John) Cubillo who was killed in the Bombing of Darwin, 1942. A book on Gary’s work, Heat: Gary Lee, selected texts, art \u0026amp; anthropology, was published in 2023 by dishevel books, Darwin. 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As fate would have it, he arrived a\u003cbr\u003eyear earlier than his enrolment at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) so he busied\u003cbr\u003ehimself with part-time studies at Alexander Mackie College and making hand-painted\u003cbr\u003esilk scarves, cards and jewellery for a stall with his cousin Laura Lee at Paddy’s Markets. The much sought-after stall space at Paddy’s Markets belonged to their Auntie Stella who was happy to hand it over to them for a time. Gary also teamed up with ex-\u003cbr\u003eDarwinite Andrew Trewin to design clothes, a collaboration which eventually saw him\u003cbr\u003eleave SCA at the end of the following year to undertake fashion designing full-time,\u003cbr\u003eworking out of studios in The Strand and Imperial arcades in Sydney’s CBD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few years after graduating as an anthropologist, Gary commenced his\u003cbr\u003elong-running photo-portrait series Nice Coloured Boys in Dhaka, Bangladesh in\u003cbr\u003e1993—work which he has often referred to as visual anthropology. He was in Dhaka as a delegate, a guest curator for two Aboriginal art exhibitions touring a number of South Asian countries under the auspices of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the exhibitions, The Image Black, had been curated by Tracey Moffatt, her film\u003cbr\u003eNice Coloured Girls (1987) consciously referenced with Nice Coloured Boys.\u003cbr\u003eAgain, the political nexus of race\/colour and beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe four risographs in this exhibition also take their cue from original drawings by Gary from the 1980s and 1990s. Like Gary’s fashion design, Study for Black Madonna # 1 belies an interest in the iconography of beauty along with his burgeoning politicisation of colour and race. He eventually quit the world of fashion and the bright lights of Sydney to work at an Aboriginal art centre in Katherine, NT, and to pursue studies in anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eGary Lee is a Larrakia artist, curator, anthropologist and writer. His visual arts practice\u003cbr\u003eincludes photography, illustration, fashion design and design although he primarily works\u003cbr\u003eas a photographer. His photography focuses on male portraiture largely through a street\u003cbr\u003ephotography methodology which he began in the early 1990s in South Asia with his series Nice Coloured Boys which celebrates the beauty and diversity of coloured men and which was triggered by an appreciation that the look of men from these countries (initially India, Bangladesh and Nepal) reminded him of Aboriginal men in his hometown Darwin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn 2022, Gary won the Work on Paper Award at the Telstra National Aboriginal Art Awards\u003cbr\u003efor Nagi, 2022, a hand-coloured photo-portrait in tribute to his maternal grandfather Juan (John) Cubillo who was killed in the Bombing of Darwin, 1942. A book on Gary’s work, Heat: Gary Lee, selected texts, art \u0026amp; anthropology, was published in 2023 by dishevel books, Darwin. Heat was launched in Darwin as part of Gary’s solo exhibition midling (Larrakia: together), Coconut Studios, shown as part of the 2023 Darwin Festival. Heat was also launched in Sydney (as part of Gary’s solo exhibition midling 2, The Cross Art Projects, shown in parallel with the 2024 Sydney Mardi Gras Festival and the 2024 Biennale of Sydney), and in Melbourne as part of the solo exhibition Heat \/ Keep Him My Heart at Swarf gallery, Brunswick (curated by Tristen Harwood and Lauren Burrow). Heat was awarded Best Art Writing by an Indigenous Writer at the 2024 Art Writing and Publishing Awards hosted by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSince 2006 Gary has held 17 solo exhibitions in Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth,\u003cbr\u003eBrisbane, Canberra and Auckland and including his current exhibition at Suite7a. 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His photography focuses on male portraiture largely through a street\u003cbr\u003ephotography methodology which he began in the early 1990s in South Asia with his series Nice Coloured Boys which celebrates the beauty and diversity of coloured men and which was triggered by an appreciation that the look of men from these countries (initially India, Bangladesh and Nepal) reminded him of Aboriginal men in his hometown Darwin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn 2022, Gary won the Work on Paper Award at the Telstra National Aboriginal Art Awards\u003cbr\u003efor Nagi, 2022, a hand-coloured photo-portrait in tribute to his maternal grandfather Juan (John) Cubillo who was killed in the Bombing of Darwin, 1942. A book on Gary’s work, Heat: Gary Lee, selected texts, art \u0026amp; anthropology, was published in 2023 by dishevel books, Darwin. 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Heat was launched in Darwin as part of Gary’s solo exhibition midling (Larrakia: together), Coconut Studios, shown as part of the 2023 Darwin Festival. Heat was also launched in Sydney (as part of Gary’s solo exhibition midling 2, The Cross Art Projects, shown in parallel with the 2024 Sydney Mardi Gras Festival and the 2024 Biennale of Sydney), and in Melbourne as part of the solo exhibition Heat \/ Keep Him My Heart at Swarf gallery, Brunswick (curated by Tristen Harwood and Lauren Burrow). Heat was awarded Best Art Writing by an Indigenous Writer at the 2024 Art Writing and Publishing Awards hosted by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSince 2006 Gary has held 17 solo exhibitions in Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth,\u003cbr\u003eBrisbane, Canberra and Auckland and including his current exhibition at Suite7a. 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