Peter Lamb was born in 1973 and lives and works in London. In 1996 he graduated from the Camberwell School of Art, London. Solo Exhibitions: Warm Time Machine, Monika Bobinska Gallery, London (2008); The Unemployed Prophet, CTRL Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA (2007); The Art of Dickies and Pollocks, Kontainer Gallery, London (2006). Recent Group Exhibitions include: The Perfect Crime, curated by Phill Allen and Dan Coombs, 4a Gallery, Malvern (2011); By Chromed Hooves It Travels Now, Annie Wharton Gallery, Los Angeles (2011); Ist Show, Strezelski Galerie, Stuttgart (2010); Das vertraute Unvertraute, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2010); PlusArtProjects, Bankside, London (featuring Damien Hirst, Anselm Kiefer) (2009).

The persistent demonstration of a certain tethered form of artistic virility drives a painting practice unafraid of its own potency and, conversely, the probability of regular collapse. Indeed, energies generated via the enforced coupling of incongruous creative forces actively power a fluid and infinite process of fresh paint; the sump of which collects in a vigorous concentration of structured painterly know how and investigation.

Making a virtue of (once derided) skittishness affords a physical and temporal layering that corresponds directly with the paintings prophesized future contexts. The in-built anticipation of the works equal debt to its surroundings shifts the emphasis from finished object to contagious ongoing exploration. Each work is a lit fuse with no (or multiple) climax that consistently occupies the crest of an unfolding and endless renewal.

(Shane Bradford 2011)
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