Lee Salomone

1990, a series of fourteen, 10x15cm black & white photographs depicting wine making in my grandfather, Pellegrino Salomone’s suburban backyard shed in Torrensville, Adelaide, Australia. In the collection of the Migration Museum, A Division of the History Trust of South Australia

1992, text, photography, various art newspapers, magazines & newsletters, red wine, wall & floor installation with variable dimensions. Post West, Adelaide, Australia

1993, metal fork, wooden crutch, 131x20x20cm. [RE] Gallery, Adelaide, Australia

1993, reshaped garden shrub at Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 300x200x100cm. Assistance from Annabelle Collett (1955-2019)

From the project, Looking at the Billboard. December 1994-Lee Salomone. 6x3metre mixed media billboard. Looking at the Billboard was a 15th month project, 1994-1995, that showcased 28, 6x3metre artworks in the Adelaide suburb of Forestville

June 1994-Steve Leishman. Steve used the 6x3metre billboard like an A4 journal. 365 used plastic bread bags that the artist had previously consumed and stored for a possible future use. Steve Leishman (1949-2017)

1995, Broadsheet art magazine, twine, grape vine, willow, 170x72x61cm. North Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide, Australia

1996, bamboo, twine, earth, 250x400x150cm. Gasworks, Melbourne, Australia

1997-1999, bitumenex paint on paper, 356 frottage prints from the streets of Milano, Italy, wall installation dimensions variable. Nexus Gallery, Adelaide

1998-1999, 313 mixed media works on paperwork, a 15-month project that recreated all the front pages of Adelaide’s local newspaper for 1998, installation dimensions variable. 1999, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

1999, 150 Oleander branches, blue flocking, floor installation with variable dimensions. branch rationalisation at Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Adelaide

2000, 150 Oleander branches, blue flocking, colbalt blue paint, floor installation with variable dimensions. branch rationalisation at Palimpsest #3, Mildura, Victoria, Australia

2000, plant fibre, chroma key blue acrylic paint, 30x42x20cm 

2000, 101 various sized metal hooks collected from maternal grandfather, Giovanni Zotti, estate, wall installation dimensions variable

From the series, Human Nature, 2000-2003, Oleander branches, plaster, chroma key blue acrylic paint, 56 x 24 x 18cm. Private collection

2001, Oleander branches, chroma key blue acrylic paint, sand, floor installation with variable dimensions 

2001-2003, 45 mixed media sandpaper & paint works, wall installation variable dimensions. Palimpsest, Red Cliffs, Victoria, Australia, 2001

2002, 465 Kurrajong seed pods, chroma key blue paint. One seed pod for every assylum-seeker on the Tampa, August, 2001. Floor installation with variable dimensions, each piece approx. 2x7x4cm. Gallery4A, Sydney, Australia

2003-2004, a series of 20 envelopes, mixed media on paper, text, digital image, 24x12cm

from the series, Inside Out, 2004, envelope, tracing paper, digital image, 21x23cm

from the series, negative space, 2004, sandpaper, paint, 23x24cm

from the series, negative space, 2004, sandpaper, paint, 23x15cm

2004, 6 family wooden garden trowels, turmeric, each piece approximately 30x15x3.5cm. Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, Australia 

11.11.2005, sandpaper, various paints, 23x28cm. Rubbing of the Palast der Republik, Schloss Platz, Berlin, Germany, (demolished 2008) 

14.11.2005, sandpaper, various paints, 12x12cm. Rubbing of the Berlin Wall, Mühlenstrasse, Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany  

2005, 365 wire & plastic muselet, wall installation dimensions variable

2005, found metal, wood, 35x29x2cm

2005-2007, found metal, wood, 37x28x4cm. Private collection

2005, found metal, wood, 25x37x2cm

2005, Australian Eucalyptus, blue flocking, 97x28cm in diameter

2005–2008, wood, Danish oil, brass stirrer attachment from an industrial planetary mixer, 148x34cm in diameter

2005–2008, wood, Danish oil, metal whisk attachment from an industrial planetary mixer, 127x34cm in diameter

2005–2008, four Photinia × fraseri Robusta trunks, Danish oil, 38×11.5cm diameter, 53×12.5cm, 60x13cm, 79x13cm

2006, Ivy, fasteners, Danish oil, Italian wooden measuring ruler, 121x75x2.5cm

2006, recycled plywood and timber veneers salvaged from discarded street furniture, pyrography, all 20 in private collections, each piece 73x28x.4cm

2006, found pine wood, bronze pieces based on pods from the Kurrajong tree, (Brachychiton populneum), 41x24x2cm

2006, found Torrens River Ash, danish oil, each piece approximately 16x16x6cm

2006, type c colour photograph, 24x36cm

2006, found metal wire, wooden umbrella handle, 81x61x2.5cm

2006-2008, wood & metal shovel handle, wire, ochre, 81x24x4cm. Private collection

from the series, on the other hand, 2006, type c colour photograph, 50x50cm 

from the series, on the other hand, 2007, type c colour photograph, 50x50cm

from the series, on the other hand, 2007, type c colour photograph, 50x50cm 

2007, type c colour photograph, 75x50cm

2007, found wooden bread board, 7 wire clothes hangers, 57x55x1.5cm

2007, sandpaper, various paints, pencil, 19x12cm. Rubbing of Susan Norrie’s installation HAVOC, at the 52nd Venice Biennale, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice, Italy  

2008, 1600 misprint run of Broadsheet, Contemporary Art magazine. Vol 21 No 1 March 1992, other Broadsheet, Agenda, The Adelaide Review, Artlink Grandmother’s metal hoe & hand trowel and glass, 80x122x41cm. Glass by Bettina Visentin

13-02-2008, found wooden bread board, black ochre, red ochre, 28x38x2cm. Private collection.

2008, various garden hoses, reverse side of laminex table top, 81x170x1.5cm

2008, wood & metal spade handle, metal, ochre, 77x12x3.5cm 

2008, metal, paternal grandfather Pellegrino Salomone’s wooden hoe stick, 136x19x4cm. Collection of Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria, Australia

2008, type c colour photograph, 50x33cm

2008, various metals, paint, 25x18x3cm. Private collection.