eXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

 Arttable : artist table event (2025)

ArTTable
The Arc, Jewry St, Winchester, SO23 8SB
29 Aug 29 - Aug 30,  2025

ArTTable is a creative community event in Winchester that invites the public to meet local artists and celebrate creativity, connection, and community engagement. Ever wondered what artists in Winchester get up to all day?

This unique event offers an intimate glimpse into the artistic process, with the chance to explore sketchbooks, see works-in-progress, and speak directly with the artists behind the creations. Born out of the Artists At The Arc Networking Group, ArTTable was developed as a way to showcase local talent and open up meaningful conversations between artists and the wider community.

I presented zines, artists' books, animation and more recent sound work.
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Each participating artist will curate their own table, transforming it into a personalised space. Some may present their work as mini-exhibitions or installations, while others will demonstrate live, offering insight into their creative process.
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While you’ll have the opportunity to purchase work or discuss commissions, the heart of arTTable lies in connection. This is not a makers’ market—it’s a celebration of fine art and studio practice. Expect to see sketchbooks, unfinished works, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of creativity in action, all designed to spark curiosity and conversation.
arTTable is free to attend and open to everyone, including families. It’s a chance to experience art beyond the finished piece, to understand the depth of the creative journey, and to engage with artists in a welcoming and inspiring setting.

 cartography of codes: SMALL WORLDS Exhibition (2025)

Small Worlds
 The Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art, Park Avenue, Winchester, SO23 8DL
July 11 - August 16, 2025

For this installation I exhibited Cartography of Codes; a globe-shaped structure assembled from several pieces of cantaloupe-coloured card whose surface is not drawn or painted but perforated—a quiet action that communicates several narratives.
 
The presence of holes in Cartography of Codes suggests the random damage left by book borer larvae, those silent insects that leave behind cryptic, meandering trails and holes. But the holes form more deliberate sequences- lines, grids, and curving clusters. These patterns that echo the logic of punch card code, once used in early textile looms, in the Jacquard machine’s weaving of complexity into cloth. Later, these codes would feed the first computers, as pieces of paper that contained digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions.
 
Rotating the globe and the patterns shift to become potential for music: like the punched paper piano player rolls, rhythm encoded in holes, silence and note defined by absence and presence. The holes also mimic the precise positions of stars on an ancient star atlas, each dot a point of navigation.
 
This paper globe is a cartography of coded systems—a symbolic artefact of how we’ve tried to communicate: through textile and data, through music language, seen, felt, and stored in machines. And it bears the marks of use, decay, and evolution.
 
This is a world shaped by code—its unifying language—and in that language, the globe both remembers and reimagines the maps we make to connect.
Read More about the making of Cartography of Codes
Small Worlds: Collective Installation exploring climate, nature and planet. In collaboration with Hampshire County Council’s Climate Unity Project
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Cartography of Codes in the exhibition
Title: Cartography of Codes
Artist: Lee Shearman
Dimensions: 200mm x 200mm
Materials: 180gsm cantaloupe-coloured card, PVA,
Weight: 35 grams
Date: May 2025

​The globe was hand-cut and hole-punched from card.

stories in transit exhibition
​Ways of Telling: Making, Performing, Remembering: Our work with Giocherenda in Sicily (2024)

Stories In Transit: Ways of Telling: Making, Performing, Remembering
Our work with Giocherenda in Sicily
​February 27 - March 11, 2024
Bookartbookshop, 17 Pitfield Street, London, N1 6HB

The second of three displays charting Stories in Transit's inspirations and the materials and stories created from workshops in Palermo, Sicily. As we know, telling stories, making them up, passing them on are specifically human capacities, and in multifarious forms, stories are the oldest and the richest depository of memories, experiences, and stratagems and devices for enduring, for – in Beckett’s phrase – going on going on.

Stories in Transit considers ways the creation and transmission of stories can be supported and encouraged in communities of people who have been displaced, and in the second part of ‘Ways of Telling’ we showcase materials from workshops spanning the whole stretch of the project. This second display includes: props, masks and creatures created to accompany the stories of Numu, Amadou and Dine of Giocherenda, amongst other stories developed and generated over the years; a rostrum designed by Lee Shearman with a light box and some cut-outs re-created by Joan Ashworth, demonstrating the stop-motion animation process; a monitor on loop sharing the animation WIP of Dine's Matryoshka-like story 'The Huntsman, his Wife and the Magical Deer'; photos from 2017 onwards; Giocherenda games including their Wheel of Wishes.
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 MINIATURE MARVELS: The Art of Lee Shearman (2018)

Miniature Marvels: The Art of Lee Shearman
​Much Ado Books, 8 West Street, Alfriston, East Sussex, BN26 5UX
July 14 -  July 30, 2018

''Lee Shearman's work has been gaining international attention, with special commissions from Charleston's Small Wonder Festival and other culture institutions.

​Stop in to Prospero's Project to enjoy a show of his works, from palm-size pop-up books to steampunk-influenced illustrated accordion-fold volumes. From imaginative reworkings of engineering history to colourful collages designed to delight the eye, Lee experiments with both content and presentation - and the results are eye-catching and thought-provoking.''
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Artist Residency exhibition: Root 1066 International Festival of Contemporary Arts (2016)
Artist Residency Exhibition: Root 1066 International Festival of Contemporary Arts
The Stade, Hastings
2016

As artists in residence, we were stationed at Stade Hall in Hastings where we engaged with the public, ran drop in animation workshops and installed an exhibition of the work.

As ROOT 1066 artists in residence produced a stop-frame animation inspired by historical and visual aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry and the ROOT 1066 festival. In the spirit of the collaborative nature of the festival we engaged with other ROOT 1066 artists’ projects to inform parts of the animation and experiment with new ways of responding to the work of other artists. During our residency we were situated at Hasting's Stade Hall between 12-16 September 2016. We treated it as an open project space complete with artworking areas, a project library and three animation workstations.
 
Inspired by the multiplane camera designed by Lotte Reiniger in 1923, we have designed and constructed a camera rig to use during production. The rig is a wooden frame built around an LED light-box and camera rostrum, with hand-operated mechanisms. This enables us to achieve a range of low-tech special effects by filming multi-layered actions simultaneously. The contraption is still in development, and evolving as we use it, incorporating modifications such as the side-scrollers and other mechanical elements, whilst carrying marks such as holes for specific mechanisms no longer required.
 
The film’s working title ‘A Mysterious and Many-layered Work of Genius’, is a reference to the Bayeux Tapestry – a source of inspiration visually, materially and historically. In the months leading up to the residency we collected numerous descriptions of the tapestry and have been responding to these through film.
 
During the residency we are using the rig to create a series of visual experiments, appropriating the structure and rhythms of the tapestry along with aspects of other ROOT 1066 projects into an abstract language of moving colours, shapes and sounds.​''

​Artists in residence Borbonesa have produced an experimental stop-frame animation inspired by ROOT 1066 Festival and the Bayeux Tapestry. The film incorporates colours, shapes and sounds informed by ROOT 1066 projects and includes descriptions of the Bayeux Tapestry voiced by Geoff Hutchinson.