Through a practice of painting and printmaking, Joanna Lamb’s hard-edged and highly refined geometric compositions depict spaces of (sub)urbanity as “an ongoing exploration of the idea of home.” Stylistically, the paintings waver between realism and abstraction.

Selected Works
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Streetside Garden 2023

acrylic on superfine polyester

177.5 × 177.5 cm

Front Yard with Rose Garden 2022

acrylic on superfine polyester

94 × 124.5 cm

Still Life in Peacock, Enamel, Espresso and Golden Wattle 2023

Laminex, acrylic and wood
25 component parts and wood base

255 × 197 × 11 cm

Pool 3 2022

acrylic on wall

Raven 2021

acrylic on board

46 × 61 cm

Crested Pigeon 2021

acrylic on superfine polyester

92 × 122 cm

Art Gallery 012021 2021

acrylic on board

46 × 61 cm

Botanic Gardens 2021

acrylic on superfine polyester

152 × 200 cm

Trigg House 2021

acrylic on board

46 × 61 cm

Pool 4 2021

acrylic on wall

350 × 500 cm

State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia

Photography by Bo Wong

Flowers 022018 2018

acrylic on board

46 × 61 cm

Park 2018 2018

acrylic on board

120 × 160 cm

Magpie 2018 2018

41 × 30.5 cm

House 012018 2018

acrylic on board

120 × 160 cm

Petrol Station 2018 2018

acrylic on board

46 × 61 cm

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Joanna Lamb

Biography

Lives and works in Perth, Western Australia
Born 1972, Perth

Through a practice of painting and printmaking, Joanna Lamb’s hard-edged and highly refined geometric compositions depict spaces of (sub)urbanity as “an ongoing exploration of the idea of home.” Stylistically, the paintings waver between realism and abstraction.

Generic domestic interiors and suburban sites such as homes, highways and airports are reduced to flat blocks of colour divested of linear perspective and often repeated in tonal variations. This reduction and repetition draws from the symmetric perfection of real estate advertisements and points to the aesthetic monotony of the Australian suburban landscape. An uncanny anonymity issues from Lamb’s purification of colour, dimensionality and form as everyday environments seem at once familiar and unfamiliar. Moreover, the surface of the paintings, seemingly untouched by the artist’s hand, effuses a clinical objectivity that is mirrored in the empty, unpeopled scenes. As a result the works omit a feeling of disconnectedness, impartial to the inclusion of human interaction.

Lamb has participated in institutional exhibitions such as Contour 556, Canberra Art Biennial, ACT (2022); The View from Here, Art Gallery of Western Australia (2021); Making her Mark: Selected from the Collection, TarraWarra Museum of Art (2020); The Real Thing, Murray Art Museum, Albury (2017); The Triumph of Modernism, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & TarraWarra Museum of Art (2015); Sublime Point: The Landscape in Painting, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Gymea (2014); PICA Salon 2013, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2013); Holiday and Memory, Penrith Regional Gallery and Lewers Bequest, Sydney (2013); Built, Art Gallery of Western Australia (2009); and Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art (2006).

Collections include Art Gallery of Western Australia; TarraWarra Museum of Art, VIC; Parliament House, Canberra; Macquarie University, Sydney; La Trobe University, Melbourne; Edith Cowan University, Perth; University of Western Australia; Muerdoch University, Perth. Joanna has been a finalist in numerous art prizes, most recently, the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize 2023 and Bankwest Contemporary Art Prize 2015 - one of the most prestigious prizes for Western Australian contemporary artists.

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