Claire Lambe (born 1962) is a visual artist born in
Macclesfield, England who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She was part of the
National Gallery of Australia's 2021–22 Know My Name exhibition, and featured in the National Gallery of Victoria's exhibition, Melbourne Now.
Biography
Lambe completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Bristol College of Art in 1985, followed by postgraduate studies at the
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...
in 1990 and a Master of Fine Arts at
Goldsmiths
A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold.
In German, the Goldsmith family name is written Goldschmidt.
Goldsmith may also refer to:
Places
* Goldsmith, Indiana, United States
* Goldsmith, New York, United States, a ha ...
, London in 1995.
From 2010 to 2012, Lambe established the
artist-run space
An artist-run space or artist-run centre (Canada) is a gallery or other facility operated or directed by artists, frequently circumventing the structures of public art centers, museums, or commercial galleries and allowing for a more experimental ...
Death Be Kind with Elvis Richardson.
Exhibitions
Lambe has participated in various solo, group and collaborative exhibitions. Significant exhibitions include:
*
The Memorial (2010''
*
The Rest is Silence (2011)'
''Yakety Sax'' (2011)''LazyBoy'' (2012)* West Space, Melbourne (2013)
* Neverwhere, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul (2014)
Spring 1883 art fair (2014)* Lurid Beauty, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2015)
Mother Holding Something Horrific, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2017)From Will to Form: TarraWarra Biennial, Victoria (2018)
Artwork
Lambe produces installation, sculpture and ready made objects. Components in her work are drawn from cultural and historical references such as Northern English Club Culture of the 1970s, motherhood, subconscious and the abject.
Lambe's process involves exorcising images and objects that have lodged in her memory: there are subconscious associations at work. In drawing from films and museum objects, the work is also speaking back to culture. In this way, Lambe's work attempts to re-possess earlier forms of transgression. Lambe has strategically occupied a number of different sites of sexual exploitation and perversion, including 1970s' sexploitation cinema and the works of
Marcel Duchamp
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, , ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso ...
. Lambe's occupation is neither a celebration nor a critique, but something has shifted through her re-possession of these forms.
Lambe uses the tactile and transformative possibilities of sculpture to unsettle conventional notions of gender and sexuality. Her work for the 2013 exhibition ''Melbourne Now,'' held at the
National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum.
The NGV houses an encyclopedic art collection across two ...
'','' uses the female body to address underlying histories of violence, social discontent and sexual promiscuity, shifting between hard-edged minimalism, abjection, and humour.
References
External links
Sarah Scout PresentsGertrude Contemporary
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1962 births
Living people
Artists from Melbourne
University of New South Wales alumni
Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
Australian women sculptors