ABOUT
Ballarat-based artist Paul Lambeth completed undergraduate studies in Art/Photography at Prahran CAE and MA (Research) at the University of Ballarat (now Federation University). He has broad experience in photography practice, including studio, architectural and medical photography. Throughout his career as a photographer, educationalist, and festival director, he has maintained a creative visual arts practice through selective exhibitions and publications.
Biography at: Prahran Alumni
https://prahranlegacy.org/2024/05/24/the-alumni-paul-lambeth-2/
Discussion: Abstraction. Dr James McCardle
https://prahranlegacy.org/2024/06/28/discussion-abstraction/
Ballarat-based artist Paul Lambeth completed undergraduate studies in Art/Photography at Prahran CAE and MA (Research) at the University of Ballarat (now Federation University). He has broad experience in photography practice, including studio, architectural and medical photography. Throughout his career as a photographer, educationalist, and festival director, he has maintained a creative visual arts practice through selective exhibitions and publications.
Biography at: Prahran Alumni
https://prahranlegacy.org/2024/05/24/the-alumni-paul-lambeth-2/
Discussion: Abstraction. Dr James McCardle
https://prahranlegacy.org/2024/06/28/discussion-abstraction/
STATEMENT - Professor Paul Kane, Vassar College New York
Paul Lambeth’s photographs are likely to strike us as both familiar and strange. Familiar, because we recognize the territory he is engaging; strange, because seeing it through his eyes—through his sensibility—has a way of defamiliarizing it (what the Russians call ostranenie, their term for the way art returns the world to us afresh and vibrant). In that sense, Paul’s work exemplifies perfectly the remark by Marcel Proust, that “The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
STATEMENT - Paul Lambeth
I would like to say I am a bushwalker who makes images. However, it would be more accurate to say I am a bush stroller, or bush sitter who makes images. The process of photography can be a very fast method of making images, a fraction of a second in fact, a fabulous power of the medium, also a limitation. By sitting quietly for hours, or at times days, I slow the process of seeing. Rummaging around in the primordial detail gives me a sense of being close to life. However, as in life, my process can be contradictory. At times images are easy to find, at others very allusive. If nothing else, I think of my images as facsimiles of experience, my experience.
CONTACT
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