Lee burst onto the London contemporary art scene in 2000 when he was invited to exhibit in 'Beautiful' held at the Oxo Tower Wharf with artists including Turner Prize winners Mark Wallinger and Chris Ofili and others including Danny Rolph, Hew Locke, Tomoko Takahashi and Chantal Joffe. He has since exhibited his work internationally as well as curated many exhibitions around the world. His experimental performance poetry films have been selected for many international film festivals since 2019.
In 2023, Lee's poetry film ‘Bears with Bananas and Bubbles in Their
Boxers’ was a Finalist in The Artists Spoken Word Competition, NYC, USA and 'Rufus' won Best Animated Short at The
Rooster Film Festival, Portland, USA. His
film SEE ME: A Walk Through London’s Gay Soho 1994 and 2020 (2021) has won numerous accolades including winning Best Experimental Film at Ealing Film Festival, London 2022, shortlisted for BEST POETRY FILM at the Out-Spoken
Poetry Prize 2023, Southbank Centre, London and receiving Honorable Mentions at Los Angeles
Underground Film Forum and Experimental Forum,
Los Angeles both in 2023. Other film accolades include his film ‘Apple of my Eye’ as finalist in the Deanna Tulley Multimedia Prize 2022 and an Honorable Mention for 'Let Rip: Teenage Scrapbook' at REELPOETRY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2023, Houston, Texas, USA and for 'Juniper Park' at Experimental Forum,
Los Angeles in 2023.
Lee had his first solo exhibition in North America of his poetry films, See Me: Performance Poetry Films at Fountain Street, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A in July 2022 and a solo exhibition of poetry film, Bona Polari! at The Margate School, Margate and Wimbledon College of Arts Library, UAL in February 2022. In October 2023, Lee will have a solo retrospective of recent film work at Raun for Kunst, Paderborn in Germany.
Recent film screenings include:The
Artists Spoken Word Competition, NYC, USA, Appalachian
Queer Film Festival, Huntington, West Virginia, USA, Filmfest Paderborn,
Paderborn, Germany, Squish
Movie Camp, Rotterdam, Post Pxrn Film Festival, Warsaw, The
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, USA, Hacker
Porn Film Festival, Italy, Brighton Rocks International Film Festival,
Brighton, Hastings Rocks International Film Festival, Printworks,
Hastings, New York City Independent Film Festival New York, TEASR
Film Festival, Tucson, USA, The Rooster Film Festival, Portland,
Oregon, USA, Lynchian Film Festival, Global Fest, Kino Club
Helsinki with global Impro ensemble from The Sibelius Academy, University of
the Arts Helsinki, Musiikkitalo Finland, Deanna Tulley Multimedia
Prize 2022,Down East Flick Fest, North Carolina, USA, PFFB
Porn Film Festival Berlin, Berlin, WIPE Film Festival, Berlin,
Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Cardiff, Wales, Ealing Film Festival,
London, Monologues and Poetry International Film Festival, CINEM’aMOSTr,
Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde, Porto, Portugal, VIDEOAKTION #3, Raum
für drastische Maßnahmenm, Berlin, SECS FEST, Seattle, USA, Hombres Video Poetry Award (Finalist) for ‘SEE ME’, SlamContemporary, Italy,
(de)construction,, Kino Club Helsinki, Finland, SF Queer Film
Festival, San Francisco, CA, USA, Failed Films Season 5,Los
Angeles, U.S.A, Feminist Border Arts Film Festival, New Mexico State
University, U.S.A,TRANÅS
AT THE FRINGE - International Screening of Experimental Films
and Videopoems, Sweden, Post Pxrn Film Festival, Warsaw, Living with Buildings II, Coventry, REELpoetry/HoustonTX
2022 International Poetry Film Festival, The
Football Art Prize, UK-touring exhibition to Touchstones Rochdale, Millennium
Gallery, Sheffield and Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens,NFSW Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA,Miami Performance
International Festival, EdgeZones, Miami, FilmPride Brighton & Hove
Pride's official LGBTQ+ film festival, Brighton, UK, Festival ECRÃ
Edition 5, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wicked Queer Film Festival, Boston,
USA, Fisheye Film Festival, UK, Southampton Film Week, UK, The
Gateway Film Festival, UK, STATES OF DESIRE: Tom of Finland in
the Queer Imagination, Casa de Duende, Philadelphia, USA. Darkroom Film
Festival,
Deptford Cinema, London, The Gilbert Baker Film Festival, USA HOMOGRAFÍA/HOMOGRAPHY, Brussels. Visions 2020 selected by Hetain
Patel, The Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London, Porn Film Festival Vienna,
Satyrs and Maenads: the Athens Porn Film Festival, SPLICE Film
Festival, OUTStream Film Festival, Queerbee LGBT Film
Festival.
Lee has been interviewed numerously about his current film/performance work including interviews on BBC Radio Ulster with WIlliam Crawley, BBC Radio Sussex and Surrey with Kathy Caton for Out with Kathy, KMTV (local Kent-based TV station) interview feature about Bona Polari! solo exhibition, interview with Jane Glennie, Moving Poems Magazine in July 2022, Daniel Hess for To Tony Productions, Tim Kirk, Matt Skallerud for I Love Gay Today/PinkMedia LGBT, Hamish Downie’s Five Questions With – Lee Campbell (March 2021) BBC Radio Kent- Interview with Dominic King for The Dominic King Show January 2021. His film work has received critical acclaim with recent review features of his film work by Francesca de Luca in Cut Frame Magazine and James Clark in Lost Creatives. In 2008, he was interviewed by Libby Purves for BBC Radio 4 where he discussed his solo performance for Whitstable Biennale that year.
Lee’s poetry has received critical acclaim and was mentioned in a Summer 2022 edition of London’s Islington Tribune. His poem ‘Clever at Seeing without being Seen’ was recorded for Sometimes, The Revolution is Small, Disarm Hate x Poetry project by Nymphs & Thugs Recording Co. UK.Publications of his poetry include Hakara: A Bi-Lingual Journal of Creative Expression, The Atticus Review, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Untitled. Voices, Gob Jaw Anthology 2019-2022, Issue Two: Wasteland, Powders Press, Issue One: First Times, Powders Press, Otherwise, You Are Here - The Journal of Creative Geography, Queerlings – A Literary Magazine for Queer Writing, New Note Poetry, Streetcake Experimental Writing Magazine, The New Normal and Step Away Magazine.
Lee has a long history of curating performance and fine art exhibitions internationally. For example, between 2005-2008, he curated All for Show, an internationally touring film showreel of emerging and established British moving image artists whose work exposed the banalities of everyday life through humour, self-introspection, and serious play. In 2020, Lee curated Radical Ventriloquism at Kelder, London. His most recent curation is Homo Humour which has screened at Metal, Southend-on-Sea, Open Eye Liverpool and FRISE, Hamburg, Germany in 2022 and forthcoming at Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR), Brunel University. In October 2023, Lee curates Slang Bang in London - a night of performance poetry contains spoken word slang. In January 2021, he curated a set of queer poetry evenings for BBC Radio.
RECENT SELECTED AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
2023 Finalist for ‘Bears with
Bananas and Bubbles in Their Boxers’ The Artists Spoken Word Competition, NYC,
USA
2023 Semi-Finalist for 'Head Boy', Underwater Film Festival, Neum, Bosnia
2023
Honorable Mention for 'SEE ME', Los Angeles
Underground Film Forum, Los Angeles, USA
2023
Honorable Mention for 'SEE ME' and 'Juniper Park', Experimental Forum, Los
Angeles
2023
Shortlisted for BEST POETRY FILM for ‘SEE ME’,
Out-Spoken Poetry Prize 2023, Southbank Centre, London
2023
WINNER of BEST ANIMATED SHORT for ‘Rufus’ at The
Rooster Film Festival, Portland, USA
2023
Honorable Mention for 'Let Rip: Teenage Scrapbook'
at REELPOETRY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2023,Houston,
Texas, USA
2022
WINNER of BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM for ‘SEE ME’,
Ealing Film Festival, London
2022
Finalist for ‘Apple of My Eye’, Deanna Tulley
Multimedia Prize 2022
2022
Finalist for ‘See Shells’, Drumshanbo Written
Word Weekend Poetry Film Competition, Drumshanbo, Ireland
2022
Juan Downey International
Contest (Finalist), Chile
2022
Hombres Video Poetry
Award (Finalist) for ‘SEE ME’,
SlamContemporary, Italy
2022
Finalist for ‘Rufus’, MicroMania Film Festival 2022, Buffalo, NY, USA
2022
Finalist for ‘The Perfect Crime: A Doggy Whodunnit’, Absurd Art House Film
Festival 2022
2022
Finalist for ‘Reclaiming my Voice’, Vesuvius International Film Festival
2022
Honorable Special Mention Award, Athens
International Monthly Art Film Festival
2021 Best Psychedelic Fantasy film winner for 'See
Me' (2020), Retro Avant Garde Film Festival NYC
2021
Semi-Finalist, Serbest International Film Festival
2021
2021
Honorable Mention, Splice Film Festival, New York
2021
Nominee for Best Original Concept and Best Atmosphere Independent Horror Movie
Awards 2021
2021
Honorable Mention Award for 'See Me' (2020), Screener Short Films
2021 Best Kent Film nominee
for ‘Peer’ (2020), Margate Bookie Film Festival
2021 Honorable Special Mention
Award, Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival
2020 Semi-Finalist (3rd
place winner), Splice Film Festival, New York
2019 Special Mention Award,
London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival
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