Australian artist Joanna Lamb continues her quest to explore the idea of the home and suburbia in a new show, exhibiting for the first time with Sullivan+Strumpf in Singapore. The exhibition will run from September 9-25.Lamb’s works in this show, titled “Home,” aim to represent the various notions of the word, highlighting the various aspects of her life in the suburbs. From collages and installations to neon works and paintings, the artist portrays still-lifes from the dual perspective of the inner and outer views of a home, attempting to evoke “the tension of location and place.” Lamb uses Laminex as the main medium for these works, which adds an element of perfection and reproducibility. Consequently, as Lamb composes images of a house’s bare exterior, she detaches any sense of nostalgia, exposing the superficiality and uniformity of the suburbia in Australia. Further, her paintings depicting everyday objects such as bottles are stripped of any names or labels, and are meant to be recognized by their brand identifier. This, in turn, indicates their ubiquitousness.The idea of repetition and reiteration are a common “visual rhythm” in Lamb’s Laminex compositions; identical scenes of houses and household products appear throughout her series. The objects are rearranged and interpreted through a changing chromatic spectrum. As they are intended to be perceived from various angles, specific details emerge within their sharp and clean appearance. According to a press release, “Joanna Lamb’s work speaks of places where we can feel both familiar and lost, where complexity is stripped to its simplest form, removed of any lines or perspective.” Joanna Lamb is a Perth-based artist who has participated in numerous institutional exhibitions, notably the TarraWarra Biennial in 2006 and “The Triumph of Modernism, Hazelhurst” at the Regional Gallery and TarraWarra Museum of Art in 2015. In 2015, Lamb was also a finalist for the Bankwest Contemporary Art Prize in Perth.“Home” runs from September 9-25 at Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore.
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