Coral Penelope Lambert  


Coral Penelope Lambert produces processbased site-specific work and sculpture in the public realm. Her significant background as a formal steel sculptor and metal caster coalesce in her practice.

Her work simultaneously celebrates the wonderment and majesty of nature whilst substantiating environmental issues. Investigating the transient and extraordinary resilience of nature, Lambert’s research places relevance on the origin of materials and challenges how they change and exist over time. Whether utilizing ancient or new digital technologies she manipulates processes that speed up and parallel those evidenced in nature such as heating, cooling and oxidization. She intentionally cultivates traces of the making to remain, portentously echoing ‘scars’ generated by our civilization upon the Earth.

Born in England in 1966. She achieved a B.F.A at Canterbury School of Art in 1989 and a M.F.A at Manchester Metropolitan University in 1990. She received an International Research Fellowship at the University of Minnesota from 1994-97. She has exhibited in 10 one person and 143 group shows, 78 of which were Invitational. International collections include Poland, China, Finland, Italy, France, Germany, Latvia, Scotland, England, Wales, Cyprus and across the USA. She is an original ‘Iron Maiden’ and Founding Director of USUK Iron Symposium 1997-2012. She Co-Founded New Orleans Sculpture Lab 2000- 2005 and Co-Chaired the 5thInternational Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art in 2006 taking it overseas for the first time to the World Heritage Site of Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale, UK. She is the recipient of 22 awards including Gottlieb Foundation Award, Jerome Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Grantand was recognized in the top three ISC Outstanding Educators for 2019 and 2020.

She is currently Professor of Sculpture at Alfred University, NY where she directs the National Casting Center Foundry.



Coral Penelope Lambert | STARRY STARRY NIGHT: Sunrise Iron Pour and Sculpture on Site at Salem Art Works, NY, USA. 2019

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