DURING the Arts Festival Week, Tenby Museum and Art Gallery was fortunate to have had Lee Phillips as artist in residence.

Lee has been art teacher at Sir Thomas Picton School in Haverfordwest for the past nine years and is currently undertaking a year's sabbatical to prepare a large project for exhibition. Lee worked on this project during his period of residency.

The project, simply entitled The Shed Project, is based around all of the tools in his late grandfather's shed in Aberbargoed in the Rhymney Valley.

His grandfather was a miner there until ill health forced him to take up the new job of teaching mining practice.

The project will see Lee recreate in pen and ink every single spanner, rivet, screwdriver, plug part, nut, bolt and chisel that his grandfather retained in his shed.

Each item will be painstakingly drawn and will find a space in the life-size recreation of the shed that Lee anticipates forming the central part of his exhibition.

The project has been covered recently by the national media, including the Jason Mohammad show on Radio Wales, Wales online and a spot on the ITV Wales News.

The exhibition will open at the Winding House in New Tredegar in October 2015 and will later move on to Big Pit National Museum.

Lee will also be working with primary and secondary schools in the valleys on intergenerational workshops and the pupils' work will be displayed alongside his own.

He will also be undertaking workshops with the Royal Voluntary Services, using this strong visual record of the minutiae of the working man as a means of social reform.

Lee also has a joint project planned with Niall Griffiths, Aberystwyth based author of Kelly + Victor and Grits, which will commence in 2015.

For more information, visit Lee's Instagram page, @leejohnphillips