Karis Lambert

 

 

"My work this year aims to explore cross-media practices and therefore my body of work has been quite varied. I am trying to engage with new technologies and materials in a way that will make the artwork more approachable and engaging for the audience.

I am interested in breaking the conventions of the gallery space in order for my artwork to be more accessible to a wider range of people. The typical gallery etiquette of ‘look but don’t touch’ bothers me; as it isolates the viewer from the artwork. My current project is therefore making ‘sculptures’ out of existing objects that people are used to being in contact with, like chairs, and encouraging the viewers to touch them and interact with them. In doing so, the artwork hopefully becomes less precious and instead, more communal. It is physically engaging with the audience while drawing their attention towards their environment.

I want to build on this project by exploring the relationship between fun or play and danger. I plan to make my artworks slightly uncomfortable by containing an element of dread as well as pleasure, amusement and fascination."