CORAL   LAMBERT                                                            RESUME

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Born England  :  Lives NY, USA

British Sculptor Coral Lambert studied at Central School of Art in London, Canterbury College of Art and received her MFA in Sculpture from Manchester Met University in 1990. Lambert shows her work extensively in America and Europe including The Young Contemporary's, Barbican Center, London, Franconia Sculpture Park, Convergence, Grounds for Sculpture, Chicago’s International PierWalk , Finland & Huian, China.

Lambert has lectured as a visiting artist at the Royal College of Art, London, Chicago Art Institute, New York Institute of Technology among many others. From 1995-1998 she was an International Artist/Research Fellow in cast metals at the University of Minnesota. In 1997 she Founded The US/UK Symposium which continues to take place annually between England + America.

 Her work has been recognized with recent awards from the Jerome Foundation, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Santa Fe Art Institute and The Gottlieb Foundation.

She leads the National Casting Center, Foundry at NYSCC Alfred University, New York where she is Professor of Sculpture.

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EDUCATION

1995 - 98                        International Research Fellow/Artist University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

1989 - 91                        Master of Fine Arts  Sculpture, Manchester Metropolitan University, England.

1986 - 89                        B.A. in Fine Arts  Canterbury School of Art, Kent, England.

1985 - 86                        Central School of Art   Foundation Studies, London, England.

1983 - 85                        St Josephs College  Visual Arts + Art History, London, England.

AWARDS

2006                        Gottlieb Foundation Award  New York, New York, USA

2005                        Jerome Fellowship Award  Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota, USA

                                Spring Board for the Arts  St Paul, Minnesota, USA

2004                        Artists Fellowship  Louisiana Division of The Arts  Baton Rouge, LA, USA

2001                        Forecast Public Art   Public Art Affairs Project   ‘Discover Sculpture Explore Lanesboro’

1999                        Forecast Public Art  Research and Development Grant  for   'Monuments to Meteorites'

1998                        Artist of Extraordinary Ability  01 Visa. Awarded by US Immigration and Naturalization.

1997                        Jerome Fellow Emerging Artist  Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN, USA.

1997                        British Arts Council  'Alchemy in the UK'  Yew Tree Farm Studios Suffolk, England.

1994                        Lake Regional Arts Council   New York Mills  Outstanding Artist Award,  NY Mills, MN, USA.

1991                        Young Contemporaries  London, England

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2006                        In the Footsteps of Giants Invitational Outdoor Cast Iron Sculpture Exhibition, Museum of Iron, Coalbrookdale, Ironbridge World Heritage Site, England.

 

                                Iron 2006 Group Show in Conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art, Ironbridge World Heritage Site, England

2005                       Lincolnwood Sculpture Park  Collection of International Outdoor Sculpture, Lincolnwood, IL, USA

                               Chicago Sculpture Works  'Molten Metal'  Inaugural Exhibition + Open Studio. Chicago, IL, USA

                               Franconia Sculpture Park     'Annual Celebration of Sculpture'  (Jerome Fellowship Recipient)  Shafer, MN, USA

                               Red Mug Gallery    'Aurora Pours'   Contemporary Cast Iron Sculpture Exhibition + Workshop, Superior, WI, USA

                               Navy Pier Walk    Juror, Peter Schjeldahl (Art Critic, New Yorker) 3D Chicago, International Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Chicago, IL, USA

                               19th Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition   Curator, Brooke Barrie (Director, Grounds For Sculpture) Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina, USA

                               New Mexico Highlands University  'Iron Tribe' Symposium + Exhibition, NMHU, Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA

                               Big Top Gallery   'Femme Fatale'  Group Show, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

                               International Sculpture Works  'Snowbird Iron Pour Workshop + Exhibition of Contemporary Cast Iron Sculpture,   New Orleans, LA, USA

2004                       International Sculpture Fall Sculpture Symposium   ISC Conference Party + Open Studio Exhibition, New Orleans, LA, USA

                    The Waiting Room Gallery   'Omnipresence' Solo Show + Installation, New Orleans, LA, USA

                               Big Top Gallery   'Maiden Louisiana' Group Exhibition of Women Sculptors,  New Orleans, LA, USA

                                  Carroll Gallery    'Sculptors Drawings' in conjunction with the ISC Fall Sculpture Symposium, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA

                                  Historic Sloss Furnaces Museum  'In Site - On Site' Invitational Biennale of Outdoor Sculpture, Birmingham, Al, USA

2003                       Coral Lambert  Pirkkala International Sculpture Symposium,  Pirkkala, Finland.

                                LSU Sculpture Garden    Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

2002                        Grounds for Sculpture    Invitational Exhibition ‘Cast Iron Sculpture of the 21st Century’ NJ

                                Convergence   International Arts Festival, Providence, RI, 20 artists selected from over 250.

                                Franconia Sculpture Park  Annual Exhibition of Sculpture, MN

2001                        National Iron Pour Day, Tulane University Art Dept, New Orleans, Louisiana.

                                Iron Butterfly, Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota.

2000                        Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina.

                                West Bend Sculpture Park  Exhibition Collection, Wisconsin, USA

                                Pier Walk 3D Chicago, International Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Chicago, IL

                                  Iron Range : From the Mesabi to the Cascades, 3 sculptors at the Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon.

                                Art Ecology   The Delgado Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.

                                Tweed Museum   The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Duluth, MN.

                                Pier Walk Maquette Show  Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.

                                Catherine Murphy Gallery  'Fe Mme' Symposium + Exhibition of Contemporary Cast Iron Sculpture, St Catherines College, Saint Paul, MN.

                                Transferrous  Mount Hood, Portland, OR.

1999                        Convergence XII International Arts Festival, Providence, Rhode Island.

                                Burlington County Sculpture Garden,  New Jersey.

                                A Small Irony Invitational Exhibition and 30th Annual Iron Pour, U of Minnesota.

1998                        Franconia Sculpture Park 'Celebration of Sculpture', MN.

                                Ferroscious Part of the International Sculpture Conference Body Builder Gallery, Chicago, IL.

                                Gateway Sculpture Park  Mpls,  MN.

                                The Healing Garden Exhibition  The Northfield Center, MN.

1997                        New York Mills Sculpture Park  'Inaugural Exhibition'  New York Mills, MN. 

                        Nobles County Art Center   'Lunar Mansions'  Solo Show   MN, USA

                                Two British Artists 'Kaleidoscopes' at New York Mills Cultural Center, MN.

                                Franconia Sculpture Park 'Terrestrial Arcanum'  Shafer,  MN.

                                Garden of Sculpture 'Star Gazer'  Hamline Plaza, St Paul, MN.

                                Franconia Sculpture Park Benefit Exhibition Wyman Gallery Building, Mpls, MN.

1996                        The Soap Factory  'Cosmic Reliquary' @ 'Room' 1105th Ave SE, Mpls, MN.

                                Katherine E Nash Gallery, Solo Show  'Fire and Stardust', University of Minnesota, Mpls, MN.

                                Franconia Sculpture Park  Inaugural Show to Open the Park, Shafer, MN.

                                'A Small Irony'  U of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

1995                        Castlefield Gallery  'Jolly Peril Paradise' Juried exhibition, , Manchester, England.

                                Manor House Sculpture Garden 'Sculpture in the Garden', Marple, Stockport, England.

1994                        Brighton Women's Sculpture Park  Brighton, Sussex, England.

1993                        Dukes Gallery 'Dead Pan'  part of the Manchester Festival of Arts, England.

1992                        Hannah Peschar Gallery and Sculpture Garden 'One Woman Show' Surrey, England

                                The Barbican Center of Arts 'Avant Garden' Monumental Sculpture Show, London, England.

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2006                        Tondu Historic Ironworks Heritage Park   Wales, UK.

2003                         Iron House  Algiers Point, New Orleans, LA, USA

2000 - 01                 Discover Sculpture Explore Lanesboro   Collaborative Public Art Sculpture, Lanesboro, MN, USA

1999- 2000              Sign Language and Braille Sculpture    'Tree Bracelets'  Western Sculpture Park, St Paul, MN, USA

                                'Poetry Sculpture' JJ Hill School, Saint Paul, MN

                                Mobile and Public Sculpture Greenleaf Elementary, Apple Valley, MN.

1998                        Cast Iron Sundials for Eisenhower Elementary School, Hopkins and JJ Hill School.

1997                        'Cast Iron Corn' A collaborative community public sculpture at New York Mills. An 800ft long fence around the sculpture park.

1994                        'Night and Day' Public Sculpture, Wilmington,  Manchester, England.

                                'Mother and Child'  Sculpture,  Manchester, England.

1992                        Wedgewood Memorial Sculpture Park 'Tree Hugging’, Staffordshire, England.

1990                        Cyprus School of Art Sculpture Park, Lemba, Cyprus.

                                Manchester School of Business  'Lunar Vibrations',  England.

                                Channel 4 National Television.  Sculpture constructed Live on television. London.

RESIDENCIES

2006                        Museum of Steel Sculpture  Artist-in-Residence, Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale, UK.

2005                Franconia Sculpture Park   Jerome Fellowship, Shafer, Minnesota, USA

2001                Rochester Institute of Technology, NY  Visiting  Sculptor for ‘The Big Pour’ Symposium.

2000                Semester Artist in Residence at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 

                        New Orleans Green Project   Mardi Gras Iron Pour, The Green Project, New Orleans, LA, USA.

 

                        The 4th US/UK Contemporary Cast Iron Sculpture Project. Franconia Sculpture Park, MN.

1999                New Orleans, Millenium Iron Pour, Green Project, LO, USA

                        Mount Hood College, Volcanoes, Portland, Oregon, USA

                        The 3rd US/UK Contemporary Cast Iron Sculpture Project. Yew Tree Farm, Suffolk, UK.

                       University of North Carolina at Greensboro two week residency with  Iron Casting Event.

1998               The 2nd US/UK Contemporary Cast Iron Sculpture Project. Franconia Sculpture Park, MN.

                       University of North Carolina at Greensboro  one week residency with  Iron Casting Event.

1997               The 1st US/UK Contemporary Cast Iron Sculpture Project. Yew Tree Farm, Suffolk, UK.

                       Saint Catherine's College  one week Sculpture Residency, Saint Paul, MN, USA.

                       Anarug Arts Festival Primitive Casting Site Development, Stillwater, MN, USA.

1996 - 99       International Research Fellow/Artist in Sculpture at the University of Minnesota, Mpls, USA.             

                      Franconia Sculpture Park  Shafer, MN, USA.

1995              The Northern Warehouse Artists Coop, St Paul, MN, USA.

1994              Cyprus College of Art Sculpture Park  Lempa, Cyprus   :  New York Mills Arts Retreat  New York Mills, MN, USA.

1993              Cotswold Community Children's Home Ashton Keynes, The Cotswolds, England.

1990              Cyprus College of Art Sculpture Park  Lempa, Cyprus.

TEACHING

2006                Sunderland University, UK and Carmarthen School of Art, Wales

2005               The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artist in Residence, Chicago, IL, USA

                       The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Visiting Artist/Iron Symposium

                       Wolverhampton University,  Sheffield Hallam Univeristy and The Royal College of Art, London.

2002/3            Louisiana State University, Visiting Professor of Art, Sculpture.

2002               University of North Carolina, Visiting Artist/Faculty for the Spring Semester.

2001               St Johns University, MN Visiting Sculptor to teach and conduct Iron Casting Workshop

2000               University of North Carolina at Greensboro   Visiting Artist/Faculty for the Fall Semester.

                       College of Visual Arts,  Adjunct Faculty in Sculpture, Saint Paul, MN, USA.     

1996               Royal College of Art, Visiting Artist, M.F.A program. London, England.

1993-95         The Wirral Metropolitan University, Adjunct Faculty in Suclpture, Cheshire, England.

1993               Northwich School of Art, Adjunct Faculty in Sculpture, Cheshire, England.

REVIEWS + ARTICLES

International Sculpture Magazine    ‘Iron Bridging Art + Technology'   Oct  2005

The London Independent                     'After Katrina'   Sept  2005

Minnesota Artists . Org                   'What would an Artist Do? : How you can help in the wake of a Storm'     Sept  2005

Minnesota Artists . Org                   'Aurora Pours : Thoughts about Iron'   Aug 2005

Times Picayune                                    'Divining Sexual Symbols'  Oct 2004

Best of New Orleans                          'Maiden Louisiana'    Nov 2004

'Brit transplant Coral Lambert waxes poetic on the back wall with stanzas of verse traversed by cast-iron wings in 'Fly by Night', which offers tantalizing contrasts between soaring words and densely heavy wings.'

International Sculpture Magazine  "Pirkkala Sculpture Park" May, 2004, 20-21.

The Providence Journal                   ‘Sculpture Showcase’,   Convergence, Cover Story. Sept 2002

City Pages, MN 'A Room of Ones Own’    Installation Review  1996.

'Coral Lambert's "Cosmic Reliquary," in which hand-cast fertility idols, swords, and other talismanic objects rest on fake fur stands--all laid out in a room with walls of magenta mylar, and peepholes encircled in glitter. Such seemingly incompatible materials make "Cosmic Reliquary" a sacred space that's flaky and funky at the same time; I was especially partial to the simple but ingenious means by which Lambert made mere holes in the floor seem as if they lead into another dimension.'

WDSU Channel 6 News 'Bronze Casting Live in the Artists Studio’  New Orleans 2002.  Public Art Review 'Discover Sculpture, Explore Lanesboro’   Review  2002.  ‘Red Dot’ Visual Arts Magazine ‘New Orleans Sculpture Lab’  Article 2001. The Leader,  MN ‘Lanesboro Heats Up’ July 2001.  The Duluth Tribune ‘Iron Fill’  April 2000.  The Duluth Tribune ‘Art Review’   Tweed Museum Review April  2000.  Saint Paul Pioneer Press ‘US/UK Cast Iron Symposium’  Review 2000.   Saint Paul Pioneer Press 'Tree Bracelets’  October 2000. Burlington County Times, NJ ‘A Garden of Art’  Cover Story October 1999.  East Anglican Daily Times, UK ‘Hot Stuff’  1999. The Advocate,  Portland, OR. ‘Creative Sparks Fly’ November 1999.  Green Gumbo, Louisiana ‘Visit from Sculptor Coral Lambert’  1999.  ‘ArtScape’ 'Iron Woman'   Interview  Article  1998.  Saint Paul Pioneer Press ‘Ironic Art’  Cover Story, US/UK    1998.   New York Mills Herald ‘Cast Iron Corn’  Cover Story July 1997.  Sculpture Magazine  ‘Franconia Sculpture Park’  Article 1997.  The Star Tribune, MN ‘Garden of Sculpture’ June 1996.   The Twin Cities Reader, MN  'Rooms’  Review 1996.  The Guardian, UK ‘Cyprus Roadside Sculptures’ Article  1994.  Manchester Evening News, UK  ‘Jolly Peril Paradise’  Review 1991.  The Guardian, UK ‘Young Contemporaries Exhibition’   Review 1991.

CATALOGUES

'Navy Pier Walk' 3D Chicago 2005,  ‘19th Rosen Sculpture Competition', 'Pirkkala Sculpture Symposium, Finland 2003, 'Convergence XV’ Providence, RI. 2002 ,  ‘Public Art Affairs’, Forecast Public Art. 2001, ‘Contemporary Sculpture’ Tweed Museum, 2000, ‘Art on Paper’ Wetherspoon Art Gallery, 2000, ‘Public Art Saint Paul’, Millennium Report. 2000, ‘Public Art Affairs’, Forecast Public Art. 1999 ‘Convergence X11’ Providence, RI, 1999,  ‘Burlington County Sculpture Garden’, NJ, 1999, ‘Gateway Sculpture Project’, Mpls, MN, 1998, ‘Jolly Peril Paradise’  Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK 1994, ‘The Avant Garden’   Barbican Center, London 1991.

COLLECTIONS

John Perry Architects, Felecia Glidden, The Welsh Arts Council,  Dilys Jackson,  John + Tasha Hock, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The Carol Cole Collection, West Bend Sculpture Park, Franconia Sculpture Park, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, University of Minnesota, New York Mills Cultural Center and Sculpture Park, Tamsie Ringler, Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden and Gallery, Wedgewood Memorial Sculpture Park, The Leicestershire Collection for Schools and Colleges.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE + CONFERENCES

2004-06                The 5th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art  Ironbridge, England.  Co-Chair  (Steering Committee Member since '99)

1997- present      US/UK Contemporary Cast Iron Sculpture   International   Founding Director

2002                      International Conference on Cast Iron Art   Johnson Atelier, NJ, USA  Steering Committee Member

2001                      International Sculpture Conference, Pittsburg. PA, USA   Moderator

2000                     ‘Fe Mme’  A Symposium and Exhibition of Contemporary Cast Iron Sculpture, Saint Katherine’s College, Saint Paul, MN, USA  Curator

1999                     Southern Conference on Cast Iron Art   AL, USA  Panel Presenter

1998/99                Western Sculpture Park   Saint Paul Public Art, Saint Paul, MN, USA    Education Program Director

1998                     International Conference on Cast Iron Art   Johnson Atelier, NJ, USA     Panel Presenter, Demonstrator, Choreographer + Performer

1998/99               Gateway Sculpture Project   Mpls, MN, USA   Co-Founder + Curator

1997/98               New York Mills Sculpture Park  MN, USA     Board Member + Curator

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