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Mindy Lee

Place of birth Bolton
Country of residence United Kingdom

2010 'Spatter Platter' Project Space, Jerwood Space, London.
2009 'Creekside Open x2 curated by Mark Wallinger' APT Gallery, London
2009 'Breaking New' Five Hundred Dollars Gallery, London
2009 'The Pleasure's All Mine' Transition Gallery, London
2008 'Slipping Out' Blyth Gallery, London
2007 ‘Gyre and Gimble’ Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London.
2006/7 ‘Salon Connexions’ Contemporary Art Projects, London.
2006 ‘Between eyes and fingertips’ Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London.
2004 ‘Christmas Tree’ The 39 Gallery, London.
2004 'The show Part 1’ The Royal College of Art
2003 ‘Great Things’ Anna Leonowans Gallery, Nova Scotia, Canada. ‘Art for the people’ www.marketforces.org
2002‘Child line’ Heathcoat’s, Manchester
2001‘Take Part’ Blackpool and Northwest Tour. ‘Time’ Clock Tower Centre, Croyden
2000 ‘From the Studio Floor’ Axiom Arts Centre, Cheltenham
1999 ‘Six Art Colleges’ Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1998‘Annual Exhibition’ Gloucester Docks, Gloucester
1998‘The Ghosts of a Chance’ Francis Close Hall Chapel, Cheltenham

These paintings explore a shifting inner world of unnameable familiarity. Through accumulation of paint a direct physical interaction is exposed, between body and canvas, from the slightest stain to violent application. The visceral, physical qualities of body matter are appropriated through paint as substance.

A repeated expulsion of paint fuses layers together into a monstrous hybrid. These forms lure the viewer in through delicate detail. What first appears delicately beautiful is exposed as dirty and stained, whilst the defacing, globular, oozing substances form a seductive jewel-like quality within the paint. As the surface is infected, disgust and seduction are intertwined through a revelling in squeamishness.

The paintings attempt to grow beyond the confines of the canvas and begin move from an illusionistic space into a physical presence. This dissolving of boundaries between inside and outside, between form and ground embraces the abject and erodes distinct definition. Through a subsidence between desire and disgust, the paintings resemble a fairy tale growing rotten.

Exhibitions Slipping Out, 08.Oct - 07.Nov.08, Blyth Gallery, 00' Nature Part 2, 15.May - 14.Jun.08, Contemporary Art Projects, '00 Nature Part 1, 10.Apr - 15.May.08, Contemporary Art Projects, Gyre and Gimble: 10 Painters, 14.Nov - 14.Dec.07, Blyth Gallery, Salon Connexions, 06.Dec - 22.Dec.06, Contemporary Art Projects, Between eyes and fingertips, 08.May - 02.Jun.06, Blyth Gallery

Publications Garageland : Beauty, 2007

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