Simone Lee is a multidisciplinary artist creating in Naarm/Melbourne, working across photography, film, sculpture, earth and dirt. Their practice seeks to embody the poetics of space and relation, foregrounding the overlooked and discarded. Lee’s work evokes intimate experiences underscored by duration - mundane imagery and objects are uplifted, emerging into quiet bodies of home. The works themselves become found (chosen) objects; excavated from the quiet corners of the natural world. Through earthly texture, material and imagery, the familiar and unfamiliar become intertwined, foraging intimate exchange and entanglements between life and self. When one body decays, another one grows.
Simone graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) in 2024 and will undertake an artist residency in the countryside of Yamanshi, Japan in late 2025.
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Upcoming at Quality Gallery, Abbotsford
2024
I confide in your texture Oddany Gallery, Collingwood
Group Exhibitions
2025
Upcoming I Love The Whole World 138 Gallery, Melbourne
2024
Victorian College of the Arts Graduation Exhibition, University of Melbourne
Crumb 01: Video and Experimental Film D’shut, Brunswick
Majilis Travelling Fellowship, Fiona Sydney Myer Gallery, Southbank
Root Rot Oddany Gallery, Collingwood
Junkyard Opera D’shut, Brunswick
On Process VCA Art Space, Southbank
2023
For A Moment, In All The Mayhem Pop Up Studio 813, Melbourne
2022
I’ve been meaning to tell you… VCA Art Space, Southbank
001 Pop Up Abbotsford Convent, Collingwood
2021
Peanut Films Presents: Launch Screening Kindred Bandroom, Footscray
Publications
Midori photo book, 148x210mm, 36 pages, 2024
Vincent Fabrications photo book, 148x210, 34 pages, 2022
Films
Passing, hands, ground 8mm, black and white, 6 minutes, 2024
In The Evening 8mm, colour, 4 minutes, 2020
Curatorial
2024
Crumb 01: Video and Experimental Film D’shut, Brunswick
On Process VCA Art Space, Southbank