Adam Lee (1979-) is an Australian artist from Melbourne.
Lee holds a Bachelor and Masters of Fine Art, and a PhD from RMIT University.
Lee’s painting and drawing practice ties together narratives of memory, imagination and transcendence.
With a personal outlook informed by a wide range of interests including folklore and legend to natural history, music, and literature, his works on canvas and paper build elaborate worlds where allegory and atmosphere converge.
Lee’s work references a wide range of sources including historical and family photographs, spiritual narratives, and contemporary music, film and literature, to investigate aspects of the human condition in relation to ideas of temporal and supernatural worlds.
His artwork and vision is reflected by a community of hermits, shawl-shod women and regalia-laden gentlefolk traversing deserts and reposing in tabernacles or dreamed abodes.
These explorations find their physical manifestation in Lee’s well-honed individual style, characterized by moody landscapes and a contemporary take on Tenebrism (a style of painting developed by Caravaggio and other 17th-century Spanish and Italian artists, characterized by predominantly dark tones and shadows with dramatically contrasting effects of light.)
More of Adam Lee’s mesmerizing artwork can be found at https://adamlee.com.au and https://stationgallery.com/artist/adam-lee/.
Humoring the Goddess 
Although not my taste, I can appreciate some of these works. But the one that’s the posts preview image looks, to me, like a dead pigeon and makes me sad.
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Wow , my friend. I too think his artwork dark and somewhat haunting, but i looked for a while and didn’t see the pigeon. Can you point it out to me? You have a great sense of experiencing art, but sometimes i don’t see what others see. Thank you for sharing this point of view.
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It’s the third one on the posts – greys and yellows. The triangular piece looks, to me, like a beak.
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Now I see it! I was always looking at the light blue face past it.
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it is as though they are looking at me looking at them!
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I absolutely love that description!
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Exciting work!
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Thank you! I love the subtle faces in his darkness.
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