Jim Lambie

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Jim Lambie's installation art -- for which he was nominated for the 2005 Turner Prize -- has been described as the "the visual arts equivalent of glam rock."

It's an appropriate metaphor for an artist whose creativity is grounded in the Glasgow music scene and whose work has a synesthetic quality, using bold colors and shapes in ways that evoke sounds and rhythms.

"You put a record on and it's like all the edges disappear," he says. "You're in a psychological space. You don't sit there thinking about the music, you're listening to the music. You're inside that space that the music's making for you."

A typical Lambie work- - such as his Turner Prize show The Kinks 2005 -- features exaggerated kitsch and pop art sensibilities. Lambie often creates his installations on site, working intuitively and impulsively within the confines of the gallery space.

A trademark of recent exhibitions has been the enlarged ceramic models of ornamental birds found in junkshops around Glasgow, decorated with everyday ephemera such as broken mirrors, handbags and collages from magazines, and daubed in randomly-applied brightly-colored paint.

Lambie was born in Glasgow, studied at the Glasgow School of Art and continues to live and work in the city.

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