STATION is delighted to present Dry Bones, Crying Stones, Adam Lee’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery. Interweaving stories of imagination, memory and spirituality, Lee’s new suite of paintings investigate the human condition and interpersonal relationships. Continuing his exploration of the evolution of human life, Lee moves between the natural world, the afterlife, the imagined and the tangible. These shifts trigger the viewer to consider the journey between these fluid landscapes, confusing the perception of what is real and what is imagined. Lee uses rich shades of oranges and pinks, bleeding into blues and greys, to create abstract maps. Figures peer in and out of the viewer’s sight, blending through washes of colour and shade, revealing the fragility and tenderness of relationships. In his exhibition text, writer and curator David Hansen explains: “Lee abstracts and makes visible deeper, more traumatic notions of lamentation, of illumination, of transfiguration. There is an unembarrassed, tough minded, unsentimental devotional or sacramental dimension in these works”. Image: Adam Lee 'Dry Bones, Crying Stones' 2023