Art and Performance
Production DesignEmile Is Missing
I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which I live, work, and create. I pay respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging. Always was, Always will be Aboriginal Land.
About
Charlie Lee is an artist and performance
designer from Aotearoa working across
dance and performance, text, costume and
scenography. Attending to the way temporal and spatial
dynamics can (dis)orient what feels familiar or
strange; they are interested in the friction between absence and anticipation, beginnings and ends, and closeness and distance. Charlie makes work between the theatre and the gallery, enjoying collaborating with different people and objects across contexts. In their work the paradoxical limits and pleasures of language is not unrelated to trans experience, dance, and the more-than-human. They are currently completing their BFA (Honours) in Visual Art at VCA.
Charlie was part of the Emerging Writers Program at Seventh Gallery in 2024 and continues to co-facilitate Trans Ecology Club, a reading and project group. Recently they took part in ‘Texting Images,’ a joint programme between Blindside Gallery and the Emerging Writers Festival.
In 2025 ‘Camopansies,’ Charlie’s first choreographic project debuted at Dancehouse, supported by a studio residency at WXYZ Studios/Lucy Guerin Inc. They are also part of Glass Bricks, a new film collective for the weird and cybernetic. Recent design projects include ‘Reqiuem’ (Lucy Eidelson, 2025), ‘Mis O’ the Mountain’ (Jessie Monk, 2025), Diagrammatica (Jason Maling, 2025), and Sam Carson’s film ‘Emile is Missing’ (2024). Charlie holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production) from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) where selected design credits include ‘Time Under Tension’ with Luke George (2024) and devised work ‘Angelfood’ (2023).
Email charannlee@gmail.com
Insta @chhrrr_lee
CV Linked Here