CURRENT NEWS

Lee Campbell's epic survey of contemporary British painting and performative practice is now online http://www.artvehicle.com/feature/1
starting a whole series of PAINT PERFORM POLITICAL related events
ALSO
see EQUALLY CURSED and BLESSED review of current contemporary art scene rise in Hastings and Bexhill with images by Laura Oldfield-Ford, Calum F. Kerr, Lee Maelzer, Susan Collins and Sarah Sparkes
athttp://www.artvehicle.com/postcard/35
BEAUTFUL TRIGGERS Review of Elly Clarke's "Time and Place"
http://london-photographic-association.com/site/pages.php?fid=0,281,584
For recent review of Jordan Baseman
http://www.artvehicle.com/events/264
Corinne Felgatehttp://www.artvehicle.com/events/270




I have a print in "Kiss of A Lifetime" curated by Mike Chavez-Dawson, touring across the UK 2009

RECENT PERFORMANCES/CURATED PROJECTS 2009

CAREFUL WHISPER Series in London and Bristol

TEN SECONDS ON SPEED curated by Lee Campbell at The Mexican Embassy,London
SPEEDY GONZALES curated by Lee Campbell at The Mexican Embassy, London
TEFLTASTIC! Various Locations, London
POSTER RIP at Mark McGowan's Police and Violence at Sassoon Gallery, London
JUNIPER PARK at Five Years, London
FALSE START at The Nunnery, London
CAREFUL WHISPER at Cafe Oto, London
BLUETOOTH CINEMA, Various Locations, London
BALLOON BABOON at Sharon Gal's Room to Breathe, London

"WHAT LINE ISN'T THAT ANYONE" Resonance FM radio performance art

Review of "FALL and RISE" at Whitstable Biennale 2008

ARTIST BACKGROUND

Lee Campbell came to prominence in 2000 in a show at the OXO Tower Wharf called Beautiful which featured Turner Prize stars Mark Wallinger, Chris Ofili and Tomoko Takahashi. Curated projects include the Embassy gallery, Scotland , Physics Room Gallery , New Zealand , Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam , KX Gallery Hamburg and Southern Exposure, San Francisco . Solo shows at Windsor Arts Centre, KX Gallery, Roodkaje Rotterdam, Kiosk , New Zealand , Window Gallery, Birmingham . Group shows at the Chisenhale Gallery, Studio Voltaire, M+R, Art and Business, London , Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales . Solo performances include The Bethnal Green Working Mens Club, London , The Edge, Birmingham , and Battersea Arts Centre. Publications include Guardian, Art Monthly,ID and Frieze. Educated at Winchester School of Art (BA Painting) and Slade School of Fine Art, London (MFA Painting).Recent solo performances included Whitstable Biennale 2008 which involved a re-enactment of the opening credits of "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" , "And the penny drops" at Non Grata, Tallin, Estonia, "Human Resources" at V22 The Wharf Road Project and a piece loosely based on a Blur song called "Country House" in Brighton. He recently spoke on BBC Radio 4’s Midweek with Libby Purves about his art. He spoke about his work plus performing with his co-curator Frog Morris at Gary Stevens Performance Lab at ArtsAdmin in London in November 2008. Forthcoming shows in 2009 include a show at The Nunnery, London and a live art festival in Ireland in September 2009

GARY STEVENS PERFORMANCE LAB TALK

Lee Campbell and Frog Morris
at Gary Stevens' Performance Lab
3-4pm Saturday November 22nd 2008

Artsadmin Toynbee Studios 28 Commercial Street London E1 6ABBox office 020 7650 2350 Tel 020 7247 5102 Fax 020 7247 5103 Textphone 020 7247 5182 http://uk.mc284.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=admin@artsadmin.co.ukPerformance and talk by the guest speakers Lee and Frog
followed by QA session
http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/opportunities/bursary.php?id=4

Gary Stevens' Performance Lab has been running since 1999.
There are many approaches and attitudes to performance. The collaborative approach adopted by the Lab is not intended as the only model for a working method. It is simply a way of generating material and stimulating ideas away from everyone's normal practice.

The speakers represent the extraordinary array of artists operating in and around the area of contemporary performance practice.

Recent guest speakers :
Brian Catling, Lucy Gunning, Sally O'Reilly and Hayley Newman.
Artsadmin Toynbee Studios 28 Commercial Street London E1 6ABBox office 020 7650 2350 Tel 020 7247 5102 Fax 020 7247 5103 Textphone 020 7247 5182 http://uk.mc284.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=admin@artsadmin.co.uk

Performances: OCTOBER 2008

www.freeartfair.com Free Art Fair, London

V22 Wharf Road Project, London

Live Art at Montague Arms, London

"Scene in the Making" Shoreditch, London

October 2008 performances:
Jasper Joffe's Free Art Fair http://www.freeartfair.com/

Concrete and Glass "Scene in the Making"
V22 The Wharf Road Project "Human Resources"

"Live Art", Montague Arms, London in events he co-curated with Frog Morris.

Performances: JUNE/JULY 2008

COUNTRY HOUSE
Falmer Court, Brighton July 2008

PRESS RELEASE :Lee Campbell is fascinated by eccentricity in language and life. He has re-created the opening credits of “The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin” to much acclaim at the recent Whitstable Biennale 2008. He continues his interest in re-enactments which deal with a particular paradox to stiff British upper lipness by recreating the video to Blur’s 1995 record “Country House” with it’s cheeky pastiches on Englishness.For the piece Lee is inviting volunteers to come along with props and create a spontaneous re-enactment in front of the venue. Lee is concerned about create site-responsive work and is excited about presenting this piece in such surroundings.For all the grandeur and charm of the manor house, the song will speak of a certain mischief that can become of one who leaves the rat race of urbanity in favour of a supposed more “organic” life.

AND THE PENNY DROPS, Tallin, Estonia July 2008

Lee Campbell performied at "GLOBAL CONTAINER 3" at NON GRATA ART CONTAINER GALLERY in Tallin, Estonia on Friday 4th July. He created a new solo performance called "AND THE PENNY DROPS".Other performers from Finland and Estonia and performance artist Orion Maxted from the UK. http://www.nongrata.ee/
For video footage see Clips on the right at www.myspace.com/leejjcampbell

FALL AND RISE AT WHITSTABLE BIENNALE 2008


SEE VIDEO OF THE PERFORMANCE by YOURKENTTV at
http://www.yourkenttv.co.uk/community/Search_Results.aspx?regions=&category=&keywords=Lee%20Campbell
FOR LEE SPEAKING ON BBC RADIO 4VISIT http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/midweek_20080625.shtml with Libby Purves on "Midweek"LEE SPEAKING and PERFORMING ON BBC NEWS SOUTH EASTVISIT http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=36668949SEE MYSPACE.COM/LEEJJCAMPBELL for Fall and Rise video in CLIPS
FOR FULL IMAGE BANK OF THE PERFORMANCEVISIT http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=129447&l=d9734&id=708770310

REVIEWS and RECENT PRESS