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Backroom  | 10

Kenneth Lambert

 Adrift, 2023 

 

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 Site specific installation. Sand, wood and other materials (Backroom) 


Drawing, for me, is an investigation and/or expression in search of the sublime. The inspiration for this installation came from a recent residency at Bundanon, where I observed the river's capacity for a violent beauty, carrying colossal timber clusters through the deep valley. I envisioned the rain breaking down the soil, unearthing magnificent trees from their perched sanctuaries. Dramatic gusts of wind racing through the valley conspired to transpose decades of growth, sliding, breaking, and coalescing, while branches breached its boundaries and carried further into the vast ocean's embrace. Washed up on a beach, augmented by time, it waited to be discovered. Each found object had forged its own path, drawing a distinctive and unique narrative.
In this work, I have recontextualised and preserved pieces of driftwood held within the black grains of black sand sourced from the Shoalhaven River and beaches of the south coast of NSW. This collection has been a fifteen-year odyssey, slowly amassed through walks along beaches and, most recently, the river's edge of Bundanon. Finding its true context as I reflect on my own personal narrative—born in the southern tip of Africa and now residing on the eastern coast of Australia. Like a piece of driftwood lost at sea, I have grappled with questions of purpose and mourned the loss of connection.
Adrift is a lament for an idealised narrative, a contemplation, questioning a sense of place and profound acknowledgment of nature's inspiring power, embracing its violence and inevitable beauty.

Artist profile

Kenneth Lambert’s experimental practice embraces disintegrated matter and the inexorable expressions that reflect the human condition.
Lambert’s conceptual approach captures the contemporary zeitgeist by transposing themes found in science to illuminate current social issues and rising anxieties of our time. At the intersection of technology and the humanities, the artist’s investigations have led to works that utilise particle acceleration to relate to climate change and data translation technology to investigate digital autonomy. Lambert’s cross-disciplinary practice encompasses digital, film, expanded drawing, painting and installation.
With a professional background that encompasses museums, exhibition design and filmmaking, Lambert draws on diverse skills to thread through his artistic practice. Since 2016 he has regularly exhibited in both solo and group shows with Australian ARI’s and commercial galleries, including Artereal, Articulate project space, COMA, Galerie pompom and Verge Gallery. His work has been featured in award shows and publications in Australia, USA and Europe. In Australia, he has been a finalist in the Churchie Emerging Artist Prize, The Alice Prize, Incinerator Gallery Prize - Art for Social Change, The Fisher’s Ghost Prize, Kilgour Art Prize, Mosan Art Prize and Dobell Drawing Prize. He currently a seasonal lecture at the National Art School and has participated in various artist residencies in Europe and Australia, most recently completing consecutive residencies with Amnesty International and Bundanon Trust.
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