Painting has always been an intuitive process for Rhys Lee. Through a vibrant palette and playful mark-making, he draws from personal memories to create moments of cathartic release. By fusing traditional art tendencies with the graffiti influences of his youth, Lee powerfully develops a unique, experimental, and raw practice across his fractured portraits and still-life compositions.

The artist blurs the boundaries between representation and abstraction, shifting his focus to colour and form. As his subjects dissolve, the rich textures and complex layers of paint take centre stage.

Lee has exhibited widely on a national and international scale, with solo exhibitions across New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Athens, Australia, Germany, Thailand, Belgium, and New Zealand.