Claire Lambe (artist)

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 Components in her work are drawn from cultural and historical references such as Northern English Club Culture of the 1970s, motherhood, subconscious and the abject.^[5][6]

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. 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, uses the female body to address underlying histories of violence, social discontent and sexual promiscuity, shifting between hard-edged minimalism, abjection, and humour.^[7]

• Sarah Scout Presents
• Gertrude Contemporary