https://www.leemilne.com/works-in-progress daily 0.75 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1458893222075-QVKZ17XWURGJA8626UQC/hi+res+scot+16191.jpg WDHS I am in the process of making small paintings interpreting dozens of negatives taken with my mum on her last couple of visits to Scotland. The images were taken within the Galloway Forest Park (a designated Dark Skies Park) and surrounding areas, and form part of a project in which I build my own mythical history based upon the landscape and existing folklore of the area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1458891960212-NDYZADMA8BUGRQXGOMH3/purple+case.jpg WDHS A work in progress documenting the melancholy impressions of ghost items in sad boxes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1589138436841-0BF1FYPMK55L4R4MS7HD/IMG_1409.JPG WDHS For the past 15 or so years I have been drawing, painting and taking photos of ‘mystical’ stones. A loose collection including stone walls, holey stones, standing stones, memorial stones, fake stones. I’ve yet to work out where this stone obsession is going. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1655564696954-ZFJJK7Y8U6IEEI48MNS7/IMG_0110.JPG WDHS I have volunteered at non-profit cooperative, the Woodford & District Horticultural Society (WDHS - once known as the Woodford & District Horticultural and Poultry Society) since 2013 and set up and run their Instagram since 2019. WDHS has been in existence for over 100 years and operates from the ‘depot’, a former WWII air raid shelter bordering the Broadmead Estate. Serving the local allotment holders and gardeners every Sunday morning, WDHS sell cost price equipment, seeds and fertilisers. The mainly older volunteers provide a lifetimes worth of knowledge and a social space for the community. https://www.leemilne.com/installation-views daily 0.75 2016-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1463810837788-Y6JM8SH83E6PCXXZ7KJA/10x10+wall+1.png installation views https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1463810837788-Y6JM8SH83E6PCXXZ7KJA/10x10+wall+1.png installation views https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1463810853109-UAG0XLWTQW506RD43SV6/10x10+wall+2.png installation views https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1463810873511-10XEO9ORM06LRY6O23VL/interior+1.jpg installation views https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1463810883563-EUV3BKCBCIW08F2OJHA5/interior+2.jpg installation views https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1463810889630-F20LXNRZBDLHS1F471LV/interior+3.jpg installation views https://www.leemilne.com/projects daily 1.0 2025-12-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1458891499204-4PJCHQEYMT9LU37E1G37/lo-reslee_031013_1+copy+website+copy.jpg Projects Over the summer I met with local female pensioners, including members of the Bemerton Over 55's, to investigate their everyday interactions with the street, past and present. Working with four frequently noted memories I created a temporary visual identity for a street that does not easily reveal itself. My Cally logos recall and document traces of Frost's Sweet Shop, Buffalo Club & Institute, Barclays Bank and the Watermelon Emporium/ Mrs Betty Jarrett Wardrobe Director. During the 2013 Cally Festival local shops used paper bags stamped with these logos.   Commissioned by Team Cally with AIR (Central College of Art & Design, UAL) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1458894887544-JXL3JVD92U44R1HBHRK3/organ+13.jpg Projects After spotting an abandoned Kimball Entertainer organ on the periphery of the Olympic 2012 site I attempted to recreate Jean Michel Jarre's 1988 Destination Docklands concert. This iconic concert was performed in the midst of the controversial transformation of London's working class east end docks area in to a global financial district. My recreation was performed in and around Hackney Wick, an area I had to leave shortly after due to unaffordable rent increases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1458408420824-RHTK294E99QGGK3UFFO1/Format+Gizmo%21+Lawn.jpg Projects GIZMO! catalogues some of the handy contraptions created by my father in an attempt to make domestic life in retirement a little easier for himself and my mother. These adapted tools offer cost effective solutions for keeping house and garden presentable and enable chores to be tackled efficiently despite the onset of age related conditions such as height loss, back pain and arthritis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1488988248395-R0237E3TBJW1OY19NNX2/Empty+Vessels.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1476084141118-8BL8MZOVXVMEEHPWC5A5/Draw+the+Curtains+2.jpg Projects These pencil drawings of ill fitting curtains were made during my stay at the Hotel Strand Continental and reference the final scene in Jonathan Miller's adaptation of MR James' ghost story, 'Whistle and I'll Come to You'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1458409361562-HQVD3KKT8618H77BXQKJ/low+straight+radiator+copy+low+res.jpg Projects Listening Devices (Hotel) + Draw the Curtains and Pull Yourself Together were part of a site-specific group exhibition held at The India Club, London in 2015. Taking Trip Advisor reviews as a starting point and Jonathan Miller's 1968 adaptation of MR James' classic short story, 'Whistle and I'll Come to You' as inspiration, I spent a night at the Hotel Strand Continental in order to make investigative responses to solitude and 'the idea of a presence' The resulting images document my attempts to capture sound and absent material within my room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1581578177057-KSGUC329KJUP0TBTQEWE/gruzy+1.jpg Projects - 'Gruzy' - a collaboration with Lesley Sharpe Gruzy is part of a developing project between Lesley Sharpe and Lee Milne, The Resident and The Tourist, that focuses on the Scottish island of Ailsa Craig, a local landmark in an area of great significance to both. ‘’A stepping stone for giants, the ‘dumpling’ we used to call it, Paddy’s Milestone; a halfway point between Glasgow and Belfast, ‘fairy rock’, once a haven for smugglers now a sanctuary for gannets, the heart of a volcano, a competition stone, forever shapeshifting, an island in limbo’’ The island serves as all of these things providing social, historical and geological matter for each artist to explore whilst questioning their changing relationships to the area and the elan that draws humans towards islands. Gruzy is an assembly of printed images, associated with the island and the surrounding landscape, exploring vocabularies of information, material, colour and scale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1458895487370-GUKWRYOXHB4S2JPV2YLJ/jon456.jpg Projects - Jon, Cardross https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1588486241223-M25O7O9LEYA5C7N7HQRY/shop%2Bcolour006.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1589268832597-H9F2F9U005SJWLBB4530/garden%2Bcommunicator%2B2%2B%2528cyclops-kharkov%2529_adj.jpg Projects - Cyclops-Kharkov The temporary sculptures are constructed from items found in my parent's garage and the local allotment society's depot (a WWII bomb shelter) and are photographed around my mother's garden. The structures are based on radio satellites and wartime listening devices. My communication devices are a futile attempt to reach the incommunicable. The work originated from a project about aging and knowledge, and has developed as a reaction to my mother's illness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1697922852615-FKA50WBZ55FMKUYIFEJI/Cummer_Carlin_Crone_2.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1715674588762-B34R9DJTMEP24VRI8U9E/Forgotten_Origin_217_%28in%29.jpg Projects Structures of Forgotten Origin, a collaboration with Lesley Sharpe There are approximately 210 19th century Coal Tax Posts forming an irregular loop around London and marking the boundary at which coal entering the city was due. They now sit redundant, some by the side of busy junctions, others obscured by forest and undergrowth or made inaccessible by an overlooked urban stream and private land. Keen cyclists with arts practice rooted in psycogeography and approaches to recording traces of industrial history, the artists took inspiration from the Randonneur cycle race - a long distant route passing through pre-determined control points at which cyclist’s brevet cards are validated to prove completion. The artists have drawn upon an amateur historian’s research to plot the location of each post and form a new Randonneur’s route, the posts becoming control points and brevet cards replaced by fieldwork consisting of the collection of photographic and organic evidence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1495171850662-AE49AGN833VBZOWGOMEF/IMG_5650.png Projects - Make Someone Happy (2017)  Make Someone Happy gives a potted and selective history of British Telecom with a particular focus on its independence from the Post Office in 1981 and the privatisation that took place from 1984 onwards. The four collages are created using photocopies of images sourced from the internet and photographs of family items. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1738434269327-AW71ZDC9MH6MWV22HRI3/a.dartmoor+website+2+resize+4000.jpg Projects - B O G This work in progress has developed out of an artist residency held on Dartmoor in March 2024. In this place surrounded by ancient sites, industrial ruins, wild moorland and isolated paths, I was inspired by the nearby corpse road (Lych Way), tales of Will O’ The Wisp and unfortunate travellers being led from their path. These bog tuftys are are a warning of waterlogged land and can provide a moment of dry respite…..or lure the traveller further into the ‘seething and quaking bog’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1652200596538-455JXDNU52DXDEAWGIV3/IMG_8682+resize.jpg Projects - Spacecraft Pentagon (blooper) A selection of images from a new body of work in progress, The Creeping Unknown borrows from the special effects and props in seminal horror/science fiction films produced in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970’s including The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass and the Pit, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, X The Unknown, invasion of the Bodysnatchers, The Thing and The Andromeda Strain. Each film uses inspired and influential low budget trickery to create spectacular scenes and hideous body horror - anxiety, paranoia, terror and gloop seep from the screen. The project builds upon my previous projects involving phoney contraptions and an ongoing interest the weird and uncanny. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1458407003024-G84UO20V5CPN1QIWE745/Milne_02-Useless_Machines_1+5x4.jpg Projects The Useless Machines take their form from ex-industrial plants situated in the Ruhr region of Germany and the Dunaskin Ironworks, Ayrshire, Scotland. They are constructed using items culled from my father's and grandfather's 'Gander Box' consisting of odds and ends accumulated during their working lives. These components are precariously balanced together to form the illusion of mechanical, yet ultimately purposeless objects. The transformation of the Ruhr region is cited globally as an example of good practice in terms of regeneration projects taking place where there has been a major structural shift due to changes in industry. The Dunaskin Ironworks Heritage Centre is now closed due to the withdrawal of funding. The buildings are derelict and the site for sale with the most likely buyers being property developers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1463725791015-J08M6L04JGW6KTOFPL03/Future+Self+Message+Machine.jpg Projects Future Self Message, 2016, mixed media Inspired by the India Club’s fast depleting peg board drinks menu, the Future Self Message Machine is a utopian communication device. The structures are informed by symbolism in Thomas More’s book (tower, rock, water and garden), alchemist signs, experimental utopian communities and architecture. The pegs make fart noises when pulled out and pushed in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1458464903481-H5CBPM8U9PJGAO3I77JY/IMG_2638.JPG Projects https://www.leemilne.com/about daily 0.75 2025-12-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1557643320580-QXA631HDJTM6PGM6X8YL/me%2Bcamera.jpg About + CV Photo by Tom Glendining https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ed337bc2ea51bd6750b4a0/1458415118177-73DASA7JMDXLIFMJMNLO/IMG_0904.jpg About + CV