Lee Mathers

I’m an artist based in Northern NSW, Australia. For over 20 years my creative practice has included design, installation works, and small collectibles.

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Combining glass with mixed media my exhibition practice explores the hinge or boundary between the physical world and the elusive space of daydreams and latent memories. Fascinated by the transitional zone that exists between conscious and unconscious psychic processes I draw on the history of familiar objects to explore the perceptual interplay that evoke both physical and psychical experiences of transition.

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My small collectable series of works are an ongoing fascination centered around the Victorian ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ and in particular how glass objects have shaped the way we view and perceive the world around us. From Galileo’s telescope as a looking glass into the universe or the Claude Glass (Black Mirror) used by landscape painters as a pre-photographic lens to view and replicate the landscape, glass is intrinsically linked to our process of perception.