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Date(s)
- 1974-2019 (Creation)
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Collection
Extent and medium
23 boxes, 1 parcel, 1 tube, 2 albums
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Gerard Lee is an Australian author, screenwriter and director. Born in Melbourne and raised in Brisbane, Lee began writing for The Telegraph newspaper at 16 years of age. Lee studied at the University of Queensland and the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). He met Jane Campion at AFTRS and began a long standing creative partnership. Lee co-wrote Campion’s feature film debut, Sweetie, which won Best Screenplay at the Australian Film Institute Awards and a Camera d’Or at Cannes.
Lee’s feature film, All Men Are Liars, opened the Sydney Film Festival in 1995 and won awards at the San Remo Film Festival and the Palm Springs Film Festival. Lee produced and wrote the screenplay for the film My Mistress (2014) and was the principal screenwriter on Breath (2018) adapted from the novel of the same name by Tim Winton.
As a television writer, Lee and Campion co-wrote the successful series Top of the Lake (2013), which garnered eight Emmy nominations for its first series. The second season, Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017), was the first television project to be screened in its entirety at Cannes Film Festival.
As a prose writer, Lee has published Pieces for a glass piano, True love and how to get it, Troppo man and Eating dog: travel stories all with the University of Queensland Press between 1978 and 1993. His second novel, Troppo Man (1990), was shortlisted for the Vogel’s Young Writers Award.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1974-1994
Collection alternatively titled as: Gerard Lee Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This collection is comprised of drafts, notes, photographs, correspondence and other materials relating to Gerard Lee's screenplays, novels and short stories. Works reflected in this collection include, amongst others:
Pieces for a glass piano (1978)
True love and how to get it (1982)
Sweetie (1989)
Troppo man (1990)
Eating dog: travel stories (1993)
All men are liars (1995)
Top of the lake (2013)
Top of the lake: China girl (2017)
My mistress (2014)
Breath (2017)
It includes over 100 typescript and handwritten drafts, over 200 letters and over 200 photographs, amongst other materials. Lee's creative partnership with Jane Campion is reflected regularly in this collection, with many materials containing annotations and notes by Campion.
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
In copyright. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
Language of material
- English
- French
Script of material
Language and script notes
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Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
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Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
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Access points
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Name access points
- Lee, Gerard, 1951- (Subject)
- Campion, Jane, 1954- (Subject)
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Status
Revised
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.