ADAM LEE
O Restless Earth
5 September – 3 October 2020

STATION | SYDNEY

Adam Lee’s practice ties together narratives of memory, imagination and transcendence, expressed through traditional painting and drawing materials. O Restless Earth features a suite of new paintings which connect to the ideas of the earth beneath and around us – secrets of the past, the buried dead, layers of history and meaning which we are searching to understand.

Important themes in Lee’s work are the act of pilgrimage, shelter and an itinerant, nomadic sense of home. In O Restless Earth, there is a recurring imagery of portals, which the artist thinks of as doorways or internal spaces within us, thresholds to new ways of understanding. In biblical and mythological understandings, we are taught that after a period of isolation or burial, there is the potential for transformation or transcendence. These works, created during the COVID lockdown earlier this year, have taken on a prophetic importance for the time we are in right now.

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Adam Lee
Blētsian 2020
Oil and synthetic polymer on canvas
200.0 × 150.0 cm

Adam Lee - Underland

Adam Lee
Underland 2020
oil and synthetic polymer on canvas
165.0 × 150.0 cm

Adam Lee - Three Days, Three Nights

Adam Lee
Three Days, Three Nights 2020
Oil and synthetic polymer on canvas
170.0 × 130.0 cm

Adam Lee - Chrysalis Dark

Adam Lee
Chrysalis Dark 2020
Oil and synthetic polymer on canvas
172.0 × 97.0 cm

Adam Lee - Totenpass

Adam Lee
Totenpass 2020
Oil and synthetic polymer on canvas
92.0 × 120.5 cm

Adam Lee - Wyrgan

Adam Lee
Wyrgan 2020
Oil and synthetic polymer on canvas
76.5 × 61.0 cm

Adam Lee - Final Days

Adam Lee
Final Days 2020
Oil and synthetic polymer on canvas
97.0 × 61.0 cm

Adam Lee - Elephant

Adam Lee
Elephant 2020
Oil and synthetic polymer on canvas
61.0 × 46.0 cm

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Adam Lee
Night As Day (1) 2019
Watercolour on paper
49.0 × 36.5 cm framed

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Adam Lee
Night As Day (2) 2019
Watercolour on paper
49.0 × 36.5 cm framed

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Adam Lee
Cave Painting 2019
Watercolour on paper
49.0 × 36.5 cm framed

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Adam Lee
Chrysalis Dark 2020
watercolour on paper
145.0 × 90.0 cm framed