Tom Lee

Tom Lee is director of the masters of design at the University of Technology, Sydney. His explorations of aesthetics in Australia are shared on Instagram @theaustralianugliness and on his blog of the same name. Tom's first novel, Coach Fitz, was published by Giramondo in 2018.

Works By Tom Lee

The Borrowed Finery of Male Freedom
In the concrete, mixed realities we daily inhabit, and in hybridised writings like Cusk’s, taking the fiction out of auto and the auto out of fiction is like trying to take chocolate out of chocolate cake.
9 June. 2021
A Brief History of Outdoor Knowledge Work
It might strike today’s readers as curious that for a period in the twenty-first century some people could work on their computers in any location they happened to choose, using a global computer network called ‘the internet’.
18 Mar. 2021
Park-office
I cannot help but consider—from my privileged vantage in a picnic hut overlooking Bronte beach—that the modern office is an artefact from a time when work needed to be conducted in a different manner and atmosphere, and that now, unlocked from the...
21 Nov. 2019
Eccentric Guides: Vanessa Berry's Mirror Sydney
Mirror Sydney appeals to the notion that people live inside worlds of their own making. This suggests both a certain comprehensiveness or completeness and a limitation: the globe is known in form but so are its borders. However, this is also a wor...
15 Feb. 2018
Lost Landscapes of Waterloo
I arrived in Waterloo in mid-2015 when ‘apartmentia’ was already in full swing. From my base on the ground floor of a new apartment complex I have watched industrial facades disappear behind scaffolding for a few months to reappear as industrially...
4 Oct. 2016

Works Featuring Tom Lee

Running Man: Coach Fitz by Tom Lee
Lee is by turns satirist and survivor of the New Victorianism. On a jog through Woollahra’s Trumper Park, Tom dreams conventional dreams of a house in the bush, a place for he and a loving partner to raise ‘a number of virile and sensitive childre...
15 Apr. 2019