JOANNA LAMB
Born 1972, Perth, Western Australia
1997 Bachelor of Arts (Design), Curtin University, Perth
1994 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), Edith Cowan University, Perth
AWARDS, GRANTS and COMMISSIONS
2025 Art in Residence Commission Parliament House Perth
2024 Commissioned by Metronet Perth to design a 450 metre long mural
2022 Commissioned to paint a large scale ‘Pool’ painting for the ACE Hotel, Sydney
2021 Commissioned to paint 2 large scale ‘Pool’ paintings for the Art Gallery of WA
2019 Black Swan State Theatre artist collaboration 2019 Season Program and marketing material.
2015 Bankwest Contemporary Art Prize, Bankwest Art Gallery, Perth, finalist; Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea NSW, finalist
2014 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, finalist
2014 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, finalist
2012 The Gold Coast Art Prize, The Arts Centre, Gold Coast, finalist;
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, finalist;
Bankwest Contemporary Art Prize, Bankwest Art Gallery, Perth,finalist
2010 Kings School Art Prize, The Kings School, Sydney, finalist
2007 ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, highly commended
2007 Artflight Grant, ArtsWA, Perth
2006 Artflight Grant, ArtsWA, Perth
1996 General Projects Grant, ArtsWA, Perth
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
City of Joondalup, Perth
City of Perth, Perth
Edith Cowan University, Perth
Fidelity Worldwide Investment, Sydney
Janet Holmes á Court
La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne
Murdoch University, Perth
Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
Parliament House, Canberra
Patrick Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Perth Electoral Commission, Perth
Royal Perth Hospital, Perth
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth
TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville
University of Western Australia, Perth
Wesfarmers, Perth
Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Perth
Private collections in Australia and overseas
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 A Romance in 2-Dimensions, Art Collective WA, Perth
2025 Looked Over: Overlooked, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2024 Joanna Lamb, Art Collective WA, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2023 One Day Like This, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2023 Presence and Absence, Art Collective WA, Perth
2021 One Long Moment, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2020 Things Past, Art Collective WA, Perth
2019 Joanna Lamb, 363 George Street, Sydney
2019 Everything is Waiting, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2017 This Is Nowhere, Art Collective WA, Perth
2017 The Real Thing, Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW
2016 Home, Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore
2015 Still Matter, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2014 Joanna Lamb, Art Collective WA, Perth
2014 Joanna Lamb, Art Stage Singapore, Sullivan+Strumpf, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
2013 15 Colour Series, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2011 Interiors, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2010 Apartment, Johnston Gallery, Perth
2009 High Rise, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2009 Flatland: A Continuing Romance (fig 26 – 29), Johnston Gallery, Perth
2008 Flatland: A Continuing Romance (fig 17 – 25), Johnston Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2007 Flatland: A Continuing Romance, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2006 Flatland, Johnston Gallery, Perth
2004 Pleasantville Paintings, Artplace, Perth
2003 Pleasantville, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2001 Identity, Artplace, Perth
1998 Slowness, Artplace, Perth
1996 Suburbia – Dreams and Desires, Verge Gallery, Perth
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 The City Wakes, The City Sleeps: Selected Works from the TarraWarra Museum of Art Collection, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Vic
2025 In Suburbia: Recent Detours, S.H. Ervin Gallery, NSW
2024 Femme-Maison: Imagined Boundaries, Macquarie University Art Gallery, NSW
2022 Contour 556, Canberra Art Biennial, Thor’s Mixing Room gallery, ACT
2021 The View From Here, Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA
2020 Salon des Refusés, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2020 Making Her Mark: Selected Works from the Collection, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Vic
2017 Waves, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2017 Psycho Geography Perth, Gallery Central, North Metropolitan TAFE, Perth
2016 Art Stage Jakarta, Sullivan+Strump, Sheraton Grand Jakarta Gandaria City Hotel
2016 A Taste of Summer, Holmes à Court Gallery, Vasse Felix, Cowaramup WA
2016 Invisible Genres, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, WA
2015 The Triumph of Modernism in the Art of Australia, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW and TarraWarra Museum of Art, Vic
2014 Sublime Point, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2014 PICA Salon 2014, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2013 PICA Salon 2013, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2013 Holiday and Memory, Penrith Regional Gallery and Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains, Sydney
2012 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
2012 Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast
2011 Korean International Art Fair, Sullivan+Strumpf, COEX Exhibition and Convention Center, Seoul, Korea
2009 The Shilo Project, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2009 Built, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2008 Time and Place – Selected Works from the TWMA Collection, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville
2007 ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, Sydney
2006 Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville
2005 Mix Tape, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2005-07 Configured, Art on the Move, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia and Regional centres throughout WA
2005 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Invitation Art Prize, Central TAFE Art Gallery, Perth
2004 BankWest Art Prize, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2001 Houseandlandpackage, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
BIBLIOGRAPHY (Shortened)
Bolt, Barbara. ‘looked over, overlooked: The paintings of Joanna Lamb’in Sullivan + Strumpf Magazine 28, https://www.sullivanstrumpf.com/magazines/stillness-amid-momentum May 2025.
Wilson, Gavin. In Suburbia: Recent Detours, https://issuu.com/nationaltrustsaustralia/docs/in_suburbia_-_ecatalogue_2025 26 March 2025.
Wright, Jaimi. ‘Tilted Realities’ Seesaw Magazine, https://www.seesawmag.com.au/2020/03/tilted-realities 2020
‘Inventory // Shades of Suburbia’, Playground Journal, 12 October 2016
Lim, Chelsea. ‘Feeling of a Place: Interview with Joanna Lamb’, Art Hop, 5 October 2016
Low, Angela. ‘Into the Mind of an Artist | 12 Quotes by Australian Painter Joanna Lamb’, Pop Spoken, 20 September 2016
Bouchara, Claire. ‘Joanna Lamb Exposes Superficiality of Suburban Home at Sullivan+Strumpf’, Blouin Artinfo, 6 September 2016
Read, Richard. ‘Artist Profile: Joanna Lamb’, http://superminimal.com.au/blog/2015/04/artist-profile-joanna-lamb/ 20 April 2015
‘Joanna Lamb Abstracts Domestic Settings Using 15 Colours’, DesignBoom, 26 January 2014
Clement, Tracey. ‘View To Suburbia’, Art Collector, Special Issue: Art Stage Singapore, January 2014
Serisier, Gillian. ‘In Review: 15 Colours by Joanna Lamb’ Australian Design Review, 13 December 2013. http://www.australiandesignreview.com/features/37579-in-review-15-colours-by-joanna-lamb
Preston, Sam. ‘Joanna Lamb’s Colour Ways’, Broadsheet, 21 June 2013
’15 Colour Series by Joanna Lamb’ Habitus Living, 12 June 2013
‘Joanna Lamb: 15 Colour Series’ Art Collector, www.artcollector.net, 18 June 2013
Duncan, Jenepher. ’15 Colours – Joanna Lamb’s new paintings – inside and out’. Catalogue Essay, June 2013
‘A Show of Art in Summer at the Gold Coast City Gallery’, Antiques&Art, November 2012 – March 2013, p9
Junker, Ute. ‘Art Attack’, JetStar Magazine, March 2012 p 47-52
Munro, Catharine, ‘Capturing the Viewer in the Everlasting Here and Now’, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 November 2009, p 13
Thomas, Sarah. ‘Shifting Grounds 1985 – 2007’, Encounters with Australian Modern Art, Ed. Palmer, Maudie, 2008, p 235-236
Nelson, Robert. ‘Humvee rises to the Occasion’, The Age, Metro Arts and Culture, 30 July 2008, p 16
Walker, Wendy. ‘Neutralising the Cacophony’, catalogue essay, Johnston Gallery, 2008
Strickland, Katrina. ‘Collectors board the red dot express’, Australian Financial Review, 19-20 July 2008, p 43
Strickland, Katrina. ‘Artists to Watch – What’s Hot in Galleries’, Australian Financial Review, 21-27 December, 2007
Strickland, K. ‘Odd Lots’, Australian Financial Review, 20 September, 2007
Cook, Robert. ‘Trance’, Catalogue Essay, Sullivan + Strumpf, 2007
Lean, Eva. ‘House Speciality: Emerging Artist Joanna Lamb uses Figurative Description to Create Cool, Curiously Hybrid Images of Australia’, Insite, Winter 2007, p 194-197
Crawford, Ashley, ‘Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists’ Australian Art Collector, Issue 39, 2007, p 161
Cook, Robert. ‘Wallpaper for the New World Order’, catalogue essay, Johnston Gallery, 2006
Nelson, Robert. ‘Slick, smooth and stylised paintings leave the angst of yesteryear behind’, The Age, 30 August, 2006