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Coral Penelope Lambert
Crying Eye
2020
Cast Iron
24” x 14” x 4”
Crying Eye
2020
Cast Iron
24” x 14” x 4”
Work Statement: ‘Crying Eye’ is one of a series of weeping sculptures made during the pandemic. We recall memories of being with family and friends during better times, the memories sustain us. I wanted to mark this moment in history with new work. We tell each other that it is ok to cry, to weep, to feel; the earth cries, humanity cries. It is a time of transition, of letting go and making room for renewal where our memories and dreams past and present may collide. Our individual memories are in the teardrops flowing with salt into the healing rivers that create a sea of collective memories. The ‘Crying Eyes’ are about hope, fragility and vulnerability, although cast in iron they are brittle and can break very easily, the internal structure is under great tension. The object is physical and static, yet it resonates with life and tactility. It resiliently maintains the presence of the soft human touch along with the fiery industrial process that created it.
Artist Bio: Coral Penelope Lambert is a mid-career artist who produces process based site-specific work and sculpture in the public realm. Her extensive background as a formal steel sculptor and metal caster coalesce in her practice.
Her work simultaneously celebrates the wonderment and majesty of nature whilst examining environmental issues. Substantiating the transient and extraordinary resilience of nature, Lambert’s research places relevance on the origin of materials and challenges how they change and exist over time. Intentionally cultivating traces of the making process to remain in the final works portentously echo the scars generated by our civilization upon the Earth.
Born in England in 1966. She achieved a B.F.A at Canterbury School of Art in 1989 and a M.F.A at Manchester Metropolitan University in 1990. She went on to receive an International Research Fellowship at the University of Minnesota from 1994-97. Internationally she has exhibited in 10 one person and 143 group shows, 78 of which were Invitational. She is an original ‘Iron Maiden’ and Founding Director of USUK Iron Symposium 1997-2012. She Co-Founded New Orleans Sculpture Lab 2000- 2005 and Co-Chaired the 5th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art in 2006 taking it overseas for the first time to the World Heritage Site of Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale, UK. She is the recipient of 22 awards including Gottlieb Foundation Award, Jerome Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Grantand is recognized in the top three ISC Outstanding Educators for 2019 and 2020.
In her current positon as Professor of Sculpture at Alfred University, NY, she has directed the National Casting Center Foundry since 2007.
Her work simultaneously celebrates the wonderment and majesty of nature whilst examining environmental issues. Substantiating the transient and extraordinary resilience of nature, Lambert’s research places relevance on the origin of materials and challenges how they change and exist over time. Intentionally cultivating traces of the making process to remain in the final works portentously echo the scars generated by our civilization upon the Earth.
Born in England in 1966. She achieved a B.F.A at Canterbury School of Art in 1989 and a M.F.A at Manchester Metropolitan University in 1990. She went on to receive an International Research Fellowship at the University of Minnesota from 1994-97. Internationally she has exhibited in 10 one person and 143 group shows, 78 of which were Invitational. She is an original ‘Iron Maiden’ and Founding Director of USUK Iron Symposium 1997-2012. She Co-Founded New Orleans Sculpture Lab 2000- 2005 and Co-Chaired the 5th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art in 2006 taking it overseas for the first time to the World Heritage Site of Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale, UK. She is the recipient of 22 awards including Gottlieb Foundation Award, Jerome Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Grantand is recognized in the top three ISC Outstanding Educators for 2019 and 2020.
In her current positon as Professor of Sculpture at Alfred University, NY, she has directed the National Casting Center Foundry since 2007.
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