Artist Talk | Kenneth Lambert 'Augmented Intervals'

Please join Kenneth Lambert for a conversation about his exhibition 'Augmented Intervals' with Rachel Kent, CEO of Bundanon.

Augmented Intervals brings Kenneth Lambert’s practice into direct engagement with material, time, and environment. Developed from a 2023 residency at Bundanon, this body of work draws on the movement of the Shoalhaven River as it carries sediment, sand, and organic matter through the valley toward the coast. The river establishes a field of continual displacement and accumulation, where material is never fixed, only in transition.

This condition is carried into the paintings. Sand, silica, pigment, and eucalyptus-derived matter are introduced to the surface and worked through a durational process, then left to settle. The works develop gradually over extended periods, shaped by gravity, evaporation, and repetition. Each surface holds a record of its formation, where material consolidates, fractures, and returns. There is no predetermined image. Form emerges through action, resistance, and time.

The exhibition is structured through a vertical field. The sky operates as atmosphere and pressure, while the ocean holds depth and accumulation. Between these conditions, the works occupy an interval, a suspended state in which matter remains unsettled. The interval is not a gap but a condition through which change is registered.

Lambert’s approach extends painting into an expanded field shaped by process and environmental forces. The surface operates as a site of encounter, where human gesture meets material behaviour. What is carried into the work is not representation, but condition. The paintings hold the residue of movement, the persistence of matter, and the trace of duration as it unfolds across the surface.

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Rachel Kent has served as CEO of Bundanon, a National Collecting Institution situated on the south coast of New South Wales on Dharawal and Dhurga country, since 2021. Prior to her appointment at Bundanon, Rachel was the Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Australia, presenting major projects with artists from the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, UK,  and South Africa.

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