Michele Lee Lambert Jamaica
The Importance of Caribbean Art Stories
"The story of the Caribbean people is unique. The Caribbean is essentially composed of Africans taken against their will to faraway lands to work as slaves by European colonizers and then later indentured labourers from Asia. This has resulted in both a story of human struggle and love. A tragedy and simultaneously a victory about the resilience of mankind."
Michele Lee Lambert is a Jamaican artist currently based in Kingston, Jamaica. Working with photography, vintage images, encaustic, oil paint and cold wax, her work uses the stories of ancestors to convey present day experiences. Drawn to the soiled and rusted, Lee Lambert explores the stories that lie behind decay and depicts the lingering aesthetics that are only developed through the passage of time. Through her work, she connects the past to the present, so that the viewer comes face to face with their own stories.
Lee Lambert's work was most recently exhibited in the National Gallery of Jamaica Summer Exhibition in 2019, and she has been awarded numerous medals in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) Visual Arts Competition in the mediums of painting and photography, as well as the Third Place Jury Prize in 2017. In 2017, Lee Lambert had a major solo exhibition at Grosvenor Galleries in Kingston, titled A Three- Thousand- Year Journey: Encaustic Art to Digital Photography.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 A Three -Thousand- Year Journey: Encaustic Art to Digital Photography, Grosvenor Galleries, Jamaica
2014 Kingston on the Edge Encaustic Art (KOTE), Sanaa Studios, Jamaica
GROUP Exhibitions
2019 Summer Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Jamaica
2018 A Celebration of Photography, Jamaica Conference Centre, Jamaica
2018 Christmas in October, Olympia Gallery, Jamaica
2018 Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) Jury Prize Winners Show, Jamaica Conference Centre, Jamaica
2017 Arts in the Park, Devon House, Jamaica
2017 JCDC Visual Arts Show, Jamaica Conference Centre, Jamaica
2017 Liguanea Art Festival, Jamaica
2015 JCDC Visual Arts Show, Jamaica Conference Centre, Jamaica
2015 Sanaa Group Show, Sanaa Studios, Jamaica
2014 Sanaa Group Show, Sanaa Studios, Jamaica
2013 JCDC Visual Arts Show, Jamaica Conference Centre, Jamaica
2013 Liguanea Art Festival, Jamaica
2012 Visual Arts Competition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Jamaica
2012 Liguanea Art Festival, Jamaica
1992 University of Miami Student Exhibition, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
Select Awards
2018 Silver medal for photography, JCDC Visual Arts Competition
2017 Gold & Silver medal for photography, JCDC Visual Arts Competition
2017 Bronze medal for painting, JCDC Visual Arts Competition
2017 Third Place Jury prize, JCDC Visual Arts Competition
