Copyright 2014 Lee Finch
Education
Capital Institute of Physical Education, Beijing, China - Study of Chinese martial arts, language and culture
Bretton Hall, Wakefield, West Yorkshire - PGCE Secondary Art & Design
Bradford University BA Hons - Fine Art Printmaking & Photography
Exhibitions
AIR Gallery, Manchester
Waterside Arts Centre, Sale, Manchester, UK
New Mills Arts Trail, Derbyshire, UK
Chorlton Arts Festival, Manchester, UK
Lush Art space, Wudaokao, Beijing, China
Bermuda National Gallery
Bermuda Society of Arts
Dockyard Arts Centre, Bermuda
Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds
Merrion Centre, Leeds
East Street Arts Mill, Leeds
St James Hospital, Leeds.
National Museum of Photography Film & Television, Bradford
Marble Arch bar, Manchester
Manto’s Bar, Manchester
The Design Museum, Bradford
Residences & Collaboaration
Archimedes Project, Barcelona
Bermuda National Gallery, Bermuda
Shakespeare Primary School, Leeds
Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds
Bruntcliffe High School, Leeds
The Groundwork Trust, Leeds
Temple Moor School, Leeds
Teaching Positions
Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College
teacher of Photography and Art. (2008 to date)
Saltus Grammar School, Hamilton, Bermuda
Royds Secondary School, Leeds
Bruntcliffe High School, Leeds
Don Valley School, Doncaster
Brigshaw School, Leeds
Lee is a Manchester (UK) based photographic artist and lecturer in Art & Design and Photography with teaching experience that spans primary to adult education. Having graduated from Bradford University with a BA Hons in Fine Art, Printmaking & Photography Lee completed a post graduate teaching qualifiation and has spent over 20 years working as an Art / Design & Photography lecturer and artist, including a 5 year position overseas in Bermuda.
Since 2008 Lee has led the the Photography department at a popular College in Manchester on a part-time basis and spends his remaining time working as an independent artist exhibiting, making, participating in artist residencies and running workshops from 'The Pinhole Studio,' an old 45 ft narrowboat, which he restored and converted to a studio space for creative fun and learning.
In addition to a number of more traditional camera based photographic projects Lee gravitates towards traditional photographic printmaking processes in the making of contemporary photograms.
*Photograms are made by placing objects between a light source and a photo sentivive materials, exposing them to light and developing the image using wet chemical processes thus revealing the shadows being cast by the objects.
'My Photogram works seek to explore the many wonderful, strange and surprising things that occur exposing obects to light sensitive papers. By looking a little deeper into the aesthtics of an object revelations often occur. The wonderful imperfections of glass are revealed, the subtle structures of a natural form come to life. I make photograms on both a large and small scale, from shopping trolleys to the wings of an insect. Various methods are employed to create the works, many not commonly associated with the art of the photogram'.