Iah
6
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
6
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Iah is a 6 by Alison Lambert, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A large, front-facing bust portrait of a man gazing downward, the work titled *Iah* was created between March 2013 and January 2014 using black charcoal and pastel on layered paper. The artist built and refined the image through an intensive process of adding and removing chalk and collaged paper, later incorporating tools such as chisels and sandpaper to shape the surface. Completed in 2014, the drawing was first exhibited in 2015 as part of the solo show *Human Presences* at the Coningsby Gallery in London, later traveling to the Pasmore Gallery at Harrow School before being acquired by the…
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Alison Lambert’s notebooks are full of lines that won’t sit still. The artist sketches on the go, tracing shapes that blur between city and sky, always half a step ahead of the paper. One sheet from 2014 shows a tower…
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