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Katie Lee
28 Oct → 12 Nov 2005
Hessian hanging from rafters, wood-shavings and scraps of rubber piled up and swept into corners; Katie Lee’s latest body of work describes a strange and confusing workshop.
Using a range of low-grade materials to create her installations, Katie’s work unearths a complex range of associations. Following an ongoing interest in exploring the effects of rationalisation, Lee blends the real with the imaginary creating peculiar and vaguely menacing environments. Part stage, part workshop, this installation has the look of being abandoned mid-production. The residue of which alludes to a disturbing history, or perhaps a future threat.
Katie Lee is currently doing a Masters at RMIT. Her undergraduate studies were completed in Tasmania and she has been living and exhibiting in Melbourne for the past 6 years, including a recent show at Conical Inc in March 2005.
Katie Lee lives and works in Melbourne. She graduated from RMIT with a Master of Visual Arts in 2009 and has also studied postgraduate education and urban planning. Lee’s practice is interdisciplinary and is often an exploration of the physical and psychological consequences of the built environment. She is interested in the continuum of body and architecture that defines our movement through urban space. Her sculptural and architectural installations incorporate the performative, balancing the visual language of institutions with a sideways humour that challenges their function.
Lee has been on the board of Conical Inc. and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. She lectures in the Sculpture department at the VCA, has taught in the Architecture and Design Foundation Studies program at RMIT and the Urban Planning program at the University of Melbourne.