Kris Lamba

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

Using raw and often industrial polymers, pigments and clays I create works which take elements commonly found within a natural landscape: reconstituting them as entirely new forms yet retaining and displaying the essence or ‘reality’ of the material. By doing so the material can become both the subject of my work as well as the object out of which the work was made. With my molten polymer paintings, the physical interaction of the material is integral to the process. As an artist I am working in partnership with its rhythm, adapting and adjusting as the heated material reveals itself. The works comprised of raw pigments must be considered somewhat differently. The reaction is slower; with cracks developing initially beneath the thickly layered surface and gradually spreading across the piece. This reciprocal arrangement between the initial forms and the later developed cracks can be considered the substance of the final work. Although comparisons can be drawn to the natural world, with similar cracks appearing in arid earth during times of drought, it is the creating force of these fissures that is of interest, the cause rather than the effect. The colour, texture and material compositions of my work are not separate entities, their symbiotic relationship is integral in my attempt to understand them as a whole. An audience might look at my work and be faced with an immediate sense of confusion, which can then be relieved by relating the piece to personal experience. The...

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