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Lennie Lee (born March 4 , 1958 ) is a South African Conceptual Art ist who lives and works in London . LIFE AND CAREER Lennie Lee is a British artist but was born in Johannesburg , South Africa . He moved to the UK in 1960. He was educated in London before winning a scholarship to study Philosophy at Christ Church College, Oxford . In 1983 he took up using found material. From the mid 1980s he joined various underground Art Collective s including The ARC Group , a London-based collective of international artists, influenced by Kurt Schwitters , who specialized in building Site-specific Installation Art . From 1987 to 1991 he worked together with The ARC Group until it was finally disbanded in November 1991 in Budapest . After the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, Lee was offered a number of exhibitions in East and West Berlin. While working on a series of outdoor sculptural installations in the summer of 1990, he was invited to work at the Kunst Haus Tacheles in Berlin , where he made contact with the thriving Berlin underground scene. On his return to London in the winter of 1990 he began to make a series of Performances , mostly on the theme of Taboo , the first of which took place at the ARC in London's Balls Pond Road. Through this, Lee was introduced to members of the KULE group, a radical theatre collective based in Berlin who invited him to come and stay in August Strasse 10 in the winter of 1990. There, together with performance artist Nils Duemcke , he set up a weekly cabaret. In the same year he painted large-scale banners for The Mutoid Waste Company . After returning to London, he set up a new Art Collective known as the 'Department of Hate and Social Sickness', (DHSS) in the spring of 1992. The DHSS continued to make installations and performances in underground venues throughout London until it was disbanded in the spring of 1994. That same year,in collaboration with Ian Stenhouse and Mark Bishop, Lee set up the Rich And Famous Gallery in the heart of London's East End showing work by a number of Artists including Martin Maloney , David Burrows , Mark Divo , Ingo Giezendanner , Graham Nicholls , Dan Jones , Tod Hanson Lee Campbell, Daniel Fernandez, David Mccairley Ian Stenhouse, Gini Simpson, Trevor Knaggs and Stefanie Maas[http://web.comhem.se/~u11003096/smitta/londondinner.html . In the winter of 1994, Lee once again moved to Berlin where he organised a series of performances in the theatre space at the in 2006 [http://marksblond.com/files/10_process_prague.pdf . In the late and Ingrid Falk , mainly in Sweden . In 2003 Lee was invited by Gillian McIver to join ' Luna Nera ', an Art Collective producing Site-specific Installations . He has exhibited with Luna Nera in London , Berlin and St. Petersburg [http://www.luna-nera.com/recent.html . Since 2000 Lee has concentrated mainly on . Lee is a performance artist [http://www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk/13847.htm working with themes of and digital images EXTERNAL LINKS
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