Jim Lambie

Recently I have been thinking about using the floor as well as the wall. Most of my work is created on the floor and I work on it from all angles, so I never know what way up its going to be until it’s finished. I think it will be interesting to view it on the ground, I’m also thinking about it becoming interactive with the audience – I was inspired by a journey, and all though my work has slowly evolved away from what it started out being, I would still like it to reflect in the final piece. The viewers will be able to step into my world and travel past and though the space as I did so many months ago, seeing them how I saw them.

Jim Lambie’s floor installations have motivated me to work with the floor, I have already forgotten about the background and am working with just the shapes and placing them straight on the wall. I found cutting the shapes and the sticking them onto the paper to constricted, I only wanted to focus on the shapes and thought the paper was a waste.

Lambie uses multi-coloured vinyl tape to create these illusional works of art and each piece will change to the site that it’s in, the tape has to move around the shape of the room and the object within it (posts, stairs and pillars etc..)

This process, again, relates to my work at the moment as I am focusing on the positive and negative shapes I create. I’m aware when arranging the shapes of the shape of the scape I leave behind.