Environmental and landscape art
Sculptural art
Site-specific and integrated art
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
Coral Penelope Lambert
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Assemblage, including found objects, and mixed-media
Fabrication, including wood, metal, glass
Site-specificity determines materials used
Starry Starry Night: Iron Pour Performance, 2019, molten iron in the landscape at dawn. Performed during the Festival of Fire at Salem Art Works. Sound by Paul Higham.
Fall Star, 2020, cast iron and steel, 9′ x 4′ x 5′
Sky Diamond, 2016, cast aluminum and steel, 8′ x 8′ x 8′
Thunder Cloud, 2022, cast iron and steel, 9′ x 10′ x 14′
Star Gazer, 2018, steel and cast iron, 8′ x 4′ x 4′
About the Artist
Coral Penelope Lambert is recognized for producing process-based site-specific work and public sculpture that combine her background as a formal steel sculptor with her passion for metal casting. She achieved a B.F.A at Canterbury School of Art in 1989 and M.F.A at Manchester Metropolitan University in 1990. She received an International Research Fellowship in Foundry Arts at the University of Minnesota from 1994-97 after which she moved permanently to the USA from England on an O1 Visa as an artist of extraordinary ability. Lambert is Professor of Sculpture at Alfred University, NY where she is also Director of the National Casting Center Foundry. She has shown internationally in 13 solo and 150+ group exhibitions. She is the recipient of 22 awards including the prestigious International Sculpture Center Outstanding Educator Award in 2022. Her studio is based in Pittsburgh where she has recently moved.
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Accreditations, Certifications, and/or Awards
- ISC Outstanding Educator in Sculpture, 2022;
- MFA in Sculpture, 1990
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
No
Teaching Artist
Yes, ages 18 and up
Joined the Directory
November 2023
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
“It is important for me to collaborate with others from different fields and backgrounds as it leads to more meaningful outcomes and results in something that I would not be able to make by myself.”
Coral Penelope Lambert
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
