Aileen Lambert « Ground Up Artists Collective

Aileen Lambert

Aileen Lambert was born in County Wexford in 1975, where she now lives and works. Aileen studied in LSAD, Limerick between 1993 and 1997, and graduated with an MA in Visual Arts Practices, from DLIADT, Dublin, in January 2007. Her practice spans video, performance and sound work, as well as participatory public art projects.

Much of her work is concerned with the relationship which the body has with it’s environment. Using simple actions, gestures, processes, and interventions, she’s traces her body’s presence on the landscape, expressing and documenting the body’s presence in a particular place and time.

Recent solo exhibitions include Come and Gone which was presented in Wexford Arts Centre (Jan ’08), Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda (Jan ’09) and the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar (June ’09). Tide, featuring video, sound and performance was presented in Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, in June ’08, and Within and Without, was presented in Triskel, Cork, in April 2009.

Aileen’s video and performance work has been presented in exhibitions and events nationally and internationally including the National Review of Live Art (Glasgow), Festival Miden (Greece), Infr’Action International Performance Art Festival (France), Darklight Film Festival (Dublin), 7000IS (Iceland), Anti Festival of Contemporary Art (Finland), Tulca (Galway) Out of Site (Dublin) and SWGC Art Gallery (Newfoundland).

Aileen has been commissioned by Wexford County Council to undertake a number of Public Art Commissions including Bóthar (Clonroche, 2005), Éist (Ballymurn, 2005) and The Soft Edge, a participatory project in the townsland of Creagh, Gorey, which featured a walk event and culminated in the launch of a publication in January ’08. Aileen has recently been commissioned by Yale University and The Arts Council to produce new performance work for the School of Divinities in Yale. She is currently working on public art commissions with Fingal and Mayo County Councils. Aileen was in receipt of a Bursary from Wexford County Council in June 2008, and The Arts Council in 2007 and 2009.