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An artist whose installations & performances integrate live body mark-making and sculptural display.

1958Born Peterborough, England
1980BSc Geology, Chelsea College, University of London
1981PGCE, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
2001BA Ceramics, University of Westminster
2007MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London

Lives in Buckinghamshire, works in and around London

Performances, exhibitions and other projects

2009 OctoberResearch Project - working title: 'Clay, Body and Performance: an investigation into the relationship between the human body and clay, in artistic activity, through time'. Joining the doctoral programme at the Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster
2009 JulySlip Dipping I - live participatory action - part of Hop Skip - Liquid Studios, Hackney Wick - Hackney Wicked Art Festival 2009
2009 JulyCamouflage - photographic collaboration with Cally Trench. Part of the Remarkable and Curious Conversations project
2009 AprilColours I - live performance and installation - part of East Wing Collection VIII - On Time, at The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London
2009 AprilSitting Slip I - live performance and installation - At Play 1 - South Hill Park, Bracknell
2009 AprilStable VI - live performance and installation - Surface! - The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock
2009 FebruarySegments, a collaborative photographic project, published in Foto Kvartals alongside an essay by Marion Duquerroy - 'Mapping the Performance: Romain Forquy and Philip Lee's Segments'
2009 JanuarySlip VI - video piece shown at 'The Joy of Clay' at The Design Museum, London
2008 DecemberStable V - live performance and installation - On the Surface - The Parlour, Kentish Town, London
2008 OctoberWhite III & IV - limited edition flipbook and envelope contain DIY cutout model, both illustrating part of Lee's White performances
2008 SeptemberEarth - video piece, in collaboration with Romain Forquy
2008 JulyOphelius - photograph, in collaboration with Romain Forquy
2008 MayWhite II - installation and live performance, part of East Wing Collection VIII - On Time at the Courtauld Institute of Art,, Somerset House, Strand, London
2008 FebruaryVisiting Lecturer - Institute for Arts in Therapy & Education, London
2007 SeptemberWhite I - installation and live performance - MA Degree Show, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
2007 JuneWater I - installation and live performance - Act Art 5 - Till Death Us Do Art, The Arches, London Bridge
2007 AprilSlip XII - Private performance for video camera at the University of Westminster in Harrow. On-going documentary project.
2007 JanuarySlip XI - installation and live performance - '11,472' - Central Saint Martins MA Fine Art Interim Show 2006 at The Barge House, Oxo Tower Warfe, Southbank, London
2006 JulySlip X - installation and live performance - Central Saint Martins MA Fine Art Symposium 2006 - Matt's Gallery, Mile End, London
2006 JulySlip IX - installation and live performance - Human Technology - Synergy Gallery, Camberwell, London
2006 - presentClay Pigment Film photography project, in collaboration with Romain Forquy including:
Splits, December 2006 (Online book Beating Time), Still I, June 2007 (auctioned on 6 July 2007) and Segments, May 2008 (published in Foto Kvartals, February 2009, along with an essay by Marion Duquerroy)
2006 MaySlip VIII - live performance - Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design University of the Arts, London
2005 NovemberSlip VII - live performance - Act Art 3 - Public Disordar, Central Station, Kings Cross, London
2005 NovemberPhotographs included in Intimacy - human people, completelynaked.co.uk - on line and at Campbell Works, Stoke Newington, London
2005 Sept/OctSlip VI - installation and live performance - Pieces By Eight - London Gallery West, Harrow
2005 SeptemberStable III - body print included in Anywhere in the World: David Medalla's London - ICA, London
2005 JuneSlip V - live performance - Fallen Angels - Kingston Rowing Club, Hull
2005 MayStable III, Slip IV - installation and live performance - May Fete with a Twist - Cecil Sharp House, Camden, London
2005 MarchSlip III - live performance - Hidden Voices - The Kingsgate Gallery, London
2004 AugustStable II - live performance - Eros Arrows - group show at The Foundry gallery, London
2004 JuneSlab III - live performance - Area 10 Summer Show, Peckham, London
2004 MarchSlip II - installation and live performance - saprimaverdada - group show at Area10, Peckham, London
2004 March/AprilSketch I and II - About a Boy - group show of paintings - The Drawing Room, Chesham, Bucks
2003 JanuarySlab II Emergence II - installation and live performance - Mutiny - group show at The Barge House, Southbank, London
2002 JulyRiverside Centre, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
2001 AugustArt in Clay, Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire
2001 JulyNew Designers, Business Design Centre, Islington
2001 JuneEarth & Fire VII, Rufford Craft Centre, Nottinghamshire
2001 JuneBA Ceramics Degree Show, University of Westminster, Harrow
2000 NovemberSlip I - University of Westminster, Harrow
2000 MayStable I - Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
1999 DecemberSand I, Emergence I - Dagnall, Buckinghamshire

Articles

2009 FebruaryMarion Duquerroy, Mapping the Performance: Romain Forquy and Philip Lee's Segments, Foto Kvartals, 1(15)
2008 JanuaryKaty Blatt writing for a handbill for the performance of White II at the East Wing Collection VIII - On Time at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London
2005 NovemberGloria Tessler, Art Notes, Journal of the Association of Jewish Refugees - includes a brief reference to performance of Slip VI on 15th September 2005
2005 SeptemberJanice West, Unearthing Something Interesting, Essay in Pieces By Eight, 2005, catalogue for group show of 'new ceramics'
2004 March/AprilJo Dahn, Think About It, Ceramic Review 204 - introducing 'conceptual ceramics'