Philip Lee - Portfolio
Performance
Golden Philip
A live body performance
with honey, gold leaf and white gloves
by Philip Lee and
Cally Trench
At the Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London
Part of Enshrine curated by Rekha Sameer
21 July 2018
Group Photograph with Mirrors
Exhibition intervention performance using mirrors and digital camera
Part of the exhibition Only The Sunny Hours: Contemporary Photography with a Brownie 127, Openhand Openspace, Brock Keep, Reading
Curated by Cally Trench
23 June 2018
Undressing Nationality
Live body performance with lots of clothes, glasses and drinks
Part of PASSPort Britannia, Safehouse 1, London
curated by Rekha Sameer
30 July 2017
BST Body Silence Time
Live body performance with gold body paint and canvas clock face
Part of Festal Favours curated by Clare Carswell, The Charlbury Festival
10 June 2017
Pour La Vie
Live body participatory performance with paint and paper
Part of Draw/Bridge, Zug/Brücke, Galerie REMISE, Berlin
curated by Alex Dewart
30 March 2017
International Day Readings
Live performance
Part of PAGES - the International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair at the Tetley, Leeds
5 March 2017
and at the Bristol Artists Book Event (BABE) at the Arnolfini, Bristol
2 April 2017
Portable Zebra Crossing
Street intervention performance by the Portable Zebra Crossing Association PZCA - Cally Trench, Ann Rapstoff and Philip Lee
5 June 2016
Part of Fringe Art Bath - The Bedlam Fair
Baby Cake
Live performance with a cake, plates and napkins
Part of Art on a Boat on the Peagreen, King's Cross, London curated by Rekha Sameer
30 October 2016
Peephole Hut
Live performance by Cally Trench and Philip Lee
Performed in evening dress within a black and gold painted cardboard and wood hut
Part of Visions in the Nunnery curated by Cinzia Cremona and Tessa Garland at the Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, London
17 November 2016
Unfolding Peacock
Live performance including
a reading by Philip Lee
and unfolding by Lydia Julien and Sophie Loss
Unfolding Peacock was performed during three events:
AMBruno's
'53 books' exhibition tour at Chelsea College of Arts Library, University of the Arts London
27 January 2016
PAGES: International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair at The Tetley, Leeds, UK
7 March 2016
AMBruno Artist collective Show And Tell at Tate Britain
5 May 2017
Accepted Rejected
Live naked performance with satchel and cards
Part of Homunculus, Asylum, London curated by Rekha Sameer
17 January 2016
Drawing Hands and Feet
Performance by Cally Trench and Philip Lee
Drawing with red and black ink on ivory card.
During the Open Day of the exhibition 365 Drawings 365 Dessins
A project by Cally Trench and Tineke Bruijnzeels
at Galerie d'Anières
Switzerland
Curated by Tineke Bruijnzeels
9 May 2015
Hide and Slip
A live body performance with clay and four mirrors
by Philip Lee and Cally Trench
Part of Control Room curated by Rekha Sameer at
The Control Room, Bristol, UK
23 November 2014
Campaign for Tiger Crossings
A gallery participatory performance and street intervention by Ann Rapstoff, Cally Trench and Philip Lee
Part of the Open Day of the exhibition
365 Drawings 365 Dessins
A project by Cally Trench and Tineke Bruijnzeels
at Brock Keep, Reading, UK
Curated by Cally Trench
27 September 2014
Keep Slip On
A live body performance with clay slip and wooden chair
Part of the Open Day of the exhibition
365 Drawings
365 Dessins
A project by Cally Trench and Tineke Bruijnzeels
at Brock Keep, Reading, UK
Curated by Cally Trench
27 September 2014
Slip and Taffeta
Live performance with clay and mars violet pigment
by Philip Lee and Cally Trench.
Part of Creating A Scene curated by Jeremy Webster Naomi Law,
and
Alex Boyd Jones
Oriel Davies
Newtown, Powys, Wales
28 June 2014
Including Slab Torsos V
Installation of 19 Slab Torsos and a video of Corpus Slip II (2009)
EKWC Residency
Exploring interactions between my body with large quantities of clay slip, in a dedicated space, over two weeks
European Ceramics
Workshop Centre - EKWC
s'Hertogenbosch
The Netherlands
Clay Play EKWC
29 March 2014
Slip Deluge
1 April 2014
Coffin Slip
5 April 2014
Drowning Slip
9 April 2014
Slip Stroll
Live body performance with clay and mars violet pigment by Philip Lee and Cally Trench
Part of Creating A Scene, curated by Jeremy Webster and Naomi Law
National Centre for Craft and Design,
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, UK
24 January 2014
Sixteen Dada Heads
Performance
by Cally Trench and Philip Lee
Part of
Punctuations, Separations & Artists' Books
at Emma Hill Fine Art,
Eagle Gallery, London
13 July 2013
Also part of
Book Acts by AMBruno
Part of PAGES
17th International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair at The Tetley in Leeds, UK
9 March 2014
Exhibiting Performance Conference
Convened by Michael Maziere and Philip Lee
University of Westminster
309 Regent Street
London
1, 2 and 3 March 2013
Do you remember it - or weren't you there?
Exhibition curated by
Cally Trench and Philip Lee
An exhibition of work by artists and writers whose starting point was a live performance by Philip Lee and Cally Trench.
London Gallery West
University of Westminster
London, UK
31 January to 3 March 2013
Multiple Slip
Live body performance with clay by Philip Lee performed by Robin George
During the opening of Do you remember it - or weren't you there?
Curated by Cally Trench and Philip Lee
At London Gallery West, Harrow
30 January 2013
Window Slip
A live performance with clay in collaboration with Cally Trench.
During The Remarkable Shed Party in Sophie's Shed, Islington, London.
Curated by Cally Trench and hosted by Sophie Loss.
15 July 2012
Zebra Pelican Cross
By Philip Lee, Ann Rapstoff and Cally Trench
A live performance and street intervention with body paint and painted canvas.
During The Remarkable Shed Party at Sophie's Shed, Islington, London.
Curated by Cally Trench and hosted by Sophie Loss
15 July 2012
Oxford Slip
A live performance with clay in collaboration with Cally Trench
At the opening of At Play 2012 at OVADA, Oxford.
Curated by Cally Trench and Dr Outi Remes
29 June 2012
Slip and Sponge
A live participatory performance with clay in collaboration with Tony Moody
At the private view of At Play 2012,
at South Hill Park, Bracknell.
Curated by Cally Trench and Dr Outi Remes
20 April 2012
Triple Spin
A gallery and street intervention by Ann Rapstoff, Cally Trench and Philip Lee
During Remarkable Place at The Keep, Reading, curated by Cally Trench and hosted by OpenHands OpenSpace.
25 March 2012
Body Cell Slip
A durational performance with clay and charcoal
Performed throughout Remarkable Place, curated by Cally Trench and hosted by OpenHands OpenSpace at The Keep, Reading, UK
24 March 2012
Double Helix
By Cally Trench and Philip Lee
Live performance with body paint and Duct tape.
Part of The Rubik's Cube, curated by Iceberg Fernandez at the Joiners' Arms, Hackney, London
29 January 2012
Body Body Chair Slip
By Cally Trench and Philip Lee
Live performance with clay, black iron oxide and an Ercol chair
12 November 2011
Chair Slip
Installation including -
Body Chair Slip
By Cally Trench and Philip Lee
video
The performance, installation and video were part of The Re… Show curated by Rekha Sameer at Out of the Dark, High Wycombe
12 - 25 November 2011
Spode Slip
By Cally Trench and Philip Lee
A live performance with red and white clay, red and black iron oxides, and three Spode plates
At the British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent; part of Live at Spode, and Context and Content - Ceramics Practice as Research Symposium
A remnant of the performance continued to be on display at the Spode factory until the British Ceramics Biennial closed two weeks later.
20 October 2011
Body Body Clay Pane
By Cally Trench and Philip Lee
A live performance with clay, red and black iron oxide, and Adam Marsh's ceramics
At the private view of A throne is only a bench covered in velvet by Adam Marsh at South Hill Park, Bracknell. Curated by Outi Remes
13 October 2011
In Praise of Zebra Crossings
By Cally Trench Ann Rapstoff and Philip Lee
A street intervention in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK
3 May 2011
Tied Slip II
By Philip Lee and Cally Trench
A live body performance with clay and black iron oxide
Part of Divide and Rule curated by 'Roves and Roams' at The Firestation Centre for Arts and Culture, Windsor
29 April 2011
Tied Slip I
By Philip Lee and cally Trench
A live body performance with clay and black iron oxide
Part of Parallels & Connections -International Research Conference on Ceramics and Glass at the National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland
5 April 2011
Blindfold Slip Private
A live body private performance with clay
In collaboration with Cally Trench
At the University of Westminster, Harrow Campus
29 January 2011
Body Bag Paint
A live performance with body paints
Performed at the Anthea Turner Prize 2011, curated by Heidi Locher and Simon Moore in Camden, London
23 January 2011
Blindfold Slip III
A live body performance and installation
in collaboration with Cally Trench
Part of Exquisite Stone Corpse - a concatenation - curated by Sophie Loss at The Stone Squid Experimental Art Space, Hastings
23 October 2010
Blindfold Slip II
A live body performance with clay
in collaboration with Cally Trench
Part of Performance at the Nunnery: Move Me! curated by Cinzia Cremona and hosted by Visions at the Nunnery 2010.
16 October 2010
Blindfold Slip I
A live body performance with clay
in collaboration with Cally Trench
At the opening of Benjamin Cohen, a solo show of paintings by Benjamin Cohen curated by HRL Contemporary at The Old Truman Brewery, London
5 October 2010
Spiral for Bruno
A live body performance with black body paint and masking tape
In collaboration with Cally Trench
A private commission
22 August 2010
Pillowcase Slip
Live body performance with clay and embroidered pillowcase
Assisted by Bruce Currie and Cally Trench
At the Anthea Turner Prize exhibition and prize giving, Islington, London
24 January 2010
Corpus Slip II
Live performance with clay, mars violet pigment and paper
Assisted during the performance by Cally Trench
At the closing event of Corpus, a group show organised by HRL Contemporary at The Old Chapel, St John's Wood, London
15 October 2009
The exhibition included an installation of twenty-one
ceramic torsos entitled Slab Torsos IV.
Corpus Slip I
Live performance with clay
Assisted by Tony Moody
At the opening of Corpus, a group show organised by HRL Contemporary at The Old Chapel,
St John's Wood, London
29 September 2009
The exhibition included an installation of twenty-one
ceramic torsos entitled Slab Torsos IV
Slip Dipping
Interactive participatory action with clay slip and camera
Part of Hop Skip - a pop up night of performance and video curated by Martina O'Shea - at Liquid Studios, Hackney Wick, London
31 July 2009
Colours I
Two-part live performance with white, yellow, red and blue body paints, and water
Assisted by Bruce Currie
Part of East Wing Collection VIII - On Time at The Courtauld Institute of Art,
Somerset House, London
25 and 26 April 2009
Sitting Slip
Live performance with clay, wooden chair, suit, shirt & tie
At the opening of At Play 1, curated by Cally Trench and Dr Outi Remes at the Bracknell Gallery, South Hill Park, Bracknell, UK
17 April 2009
Installation included the remnants of the performance: clay-marked suit, shirt, and tie, wooden chair, clay foot prints, and 55 minute video.
Stable VI
Live body performance with inkjet film, clay, water, and yellow ochre and mars violet pigments
Assisted by Bruce Currie, Les Armstrong and Alasdair Dewart
At the opening of Surface! curated by Cally Trench at The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, UK
4 April 2009
Installation included an inkjet body print on silk, a ceramic full length body (Stable Slab - 2008) and three clay body prints on inkjet film (Stable VI Panels - 2009).
Stable V
Live body performance with clay, water, mars violet pigment and three cotton panels - one each of canvas, calico and muslin
Assisted by Bruce Currie and Frances Anne Greenough
At the opening of On the Surface, curated by Cally Trench at The Parlour, Kentish Town, London
12 December 2008
White II
Live performance with white body paint and water
Part of East Wing Collection VIII - On Time at The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London
24 and 25 May 2008
White I
Live performance with white body paint and MDF
MA Fine Art Degree Show 2007
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London
August/September 2007
Including White 2007 - a two part installation including video, live performance a photograph - assisted by Steve Brown, Bruce Currie and Judy Goldhill
Water I
Live performance with water, clay, and pigments
Assisted by Bruce Currie
Part of ACT ART 5 - Till Death Us Do Art, curated by Olive Frost and Marc Massive at The Arches, London Bridge
8 June 2007
Stream (Slip XII)
Live performance with water and clay
Assisted by John Lee
Private performance for video camera at the University of Westminster in Harrow
April 2007
Slip XI
Live performance with clay and water
Part of the Central Saint Martins MA Fine Art Interim SHow 2006, "11,472"; curated by Konstantinos Dagritzikos, Caterina Riva, Caroline Soyez-Petithomme, Cadine Navarro, Ana Garcia-Pineda and Yannis Arvanitis; at The Barge House, Southbank, London
25 January 2007
Slip X
Live performance with clay and water
Assisted by Judy Goldhill and Stefan Von Lichtenberg
Part of the Central Saint Martins MA Fine Art Symposium 2006 at Matt's Gallery, Mile End, London
6 July 2006
Slip IX
Live performance with clay and water
Part of Human Technology, curated by Rose Lopes at the Synergy Gallery Camberwell, London
6 July 2006
Slip VIII
Live performance with clay and water
At Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London
31 May 2006
Slip VII
Live performance with clay
Assisted by Bethan Williams
Central Station, Kings Cross, London
11 November 2005
Slip VI
Live performance with clay, canvas, wax and wood
In collaboration with London Gallery West
At the opening of Pieces by Eight: New Ceramics, curated by Philip Lee, Anne Jamison and Detta Fane at London Gallery West, University of Westminster, Harrow
15 September 2005
Slip V
Live performance with clay and river silt
In collaboration with Lee Merriland and Bruce Currie
Part of Fallen Angels, hosted by Paul Burwell at the Kingston Rowing Club, Hull
21 June 2005
Slip IV
Live performance with clay
In collaboration with Stephanie Lamb and Bruce Currie
Part of May Fete With A Twist curated by Sarah Shorten and Alison Trower at Cecil Sharp House, Camden, London
21 May 2005
Stable III
Live performance with raw pigment and paper
In collaboration with Stephanie Lamb and Bruce Currie
Part of May Fete With A Twist curated by Sarah Shorten and Alison Trower at Cecil Sharp House, Camden, London
21 May 2005
Slip III
Live performance with clay.
Part of a performance evening during the exhibition of Hidden Voices by Régine Elliott and Marisol Cavia at the Kingsgate Studio Gallery, London
23 March 2005
Stable II
Live performance with paper and burnt sienna pigment.
At the closing performance event of Eros Arrows, a group show part of London Biennale 2004, at The Foundry Gallery, London
28 August 2004
Slip II
Live performance with white slip, wood and canvas.
Assisted by Marina Wade
Part of soprimaverdada at Area 10, Peckham, London
20 and 27 March 2004
Stable I
Private performance body printing with burnt sienna poster paint and vegetable oil
Municipal yard, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
May 2000