About
Tracey Lamb acknowledges and pays respect to the traditional owners of the unseeded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation where she lives.
Tracey Lamb’s abstract sculptural work is inspired by 20th century architecture and interior design. Her work reveals its essence, structure and significance by distilling the colours, patterns and geometry. Tracey isolates architectural forms from their function to investigate the narrative properties of architectural motifs that shape our urban environment. Her playful and joyful aesthetic and materiality is both sleek and vibrant, bold and delicate, audacious and subtle, counteracting the historical feminine and masculine dichotomy.
Welder and monumental sculptor, Tracey dynamically embodies feminist principles through her chosen medium and artistic concepts. Exploring practices of erased and marginalised female artists and architects, Tracey challenges historical power structures to draw attention to creative women in 20th century history who continue to have their story misrepresented or overshadowed by their more famous male colleagues.
Tracey is a member of ShrewD Collective, a group of five ShrewD female artists who are Tracey Lamb, Chris Fontana, Amanda Laming, Nina Sanadze and Mimmalisa Trifiló. We assemble, weave, weld, paint, sculpt, draw, and write, maintaining our autonomous artistic styles, and then bring these together to form something entirely unique and supportive as. ShewD Collective.
Tracey runs the social media platform This is not a man-date - https://www.instagram.com/thisis_nota_mandate/ where she generously and tirelessly sources all posts to promote the art and creative practices of contemporary female and non-binary artists..
Growing up in suburban Naarm/Melbourne Tracey was informed by her father’s work as a furniture joiner and draftsman. Tracey holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Monash University and an Honours degree from the Victorian College of the Arts. Her works are often site-specific and range in size from 5 meters to jewellery scale. Tracey also creates works on paper using gouache, ink, acrylics and carbon paper and uses photography to interrogate aspects of architecture and design. Additionally, Tracey has employed her playful aesthetic to develop sculptural programs and workshops for children for museums like TarraWarra Museum of Art and MUMA, Monash University.
Tracey exhibited her work in Milan, Berlin and the UK, as well as many galleries throughout Australia. Her work was commissioned for the Lorne Small Sculpture Exhibition, Lorne Biennale, and she has shown her work at Monash University Museum of Art, Cross Gallery, Bunderberg, Queensland, The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Craft Victoria, Yering Station, Fringe Furniture, Kings ARI, Bus Projects, Montsalvat, Incinerator Gallery, Perth Centre for Photography, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne and the Melbourne Fashion Festival amongst many other spaces. Her art is held in collections within Australia and internationally. Tracey’s work has been featured in Vogue Living, Belle, House and Garden, etc. Additionally, her work has been included many interior design and architectural shoots for online publications.
Tracey Lamb is represented by Curatorial & Co, Sydney.
