Roisin Lambert is a photographic artist from Co. Wicklow. Through the camera she examines the relationship between human and land. She seeks to find meaning in the ancient inheritance of place within a contemporary state of being. With both intuitive and considered frames, her work is occupied by a landscape layered in myth and narrative, to know that which is sequestered within the ever-shifting soil. Her work explores the tensions between light and dark, real and surreal, that which is conjured by dark and found by light.
By the Cradle of the Quicken
By the Cradle of the Quicken accounts the melding of person and land. The work traces a shift. A withdrawal of flesh and bone. The gradual shedding of the corporeal and the emergence of wry humanness, born from soil. Woven upon the idea of giving ones’ body over to the earth. Rooting in place. A heart buried and grown.
By the Cradle of the Quicken uses the symbol of the quicken tree. A tree of formidable magic, known as a source of birth, rebirth, and protection.
Built upon myth and narrative, the work meditates on light and dark, the seen and the unseen. It follows the eye of a still and silent witness where landscape and figure become entwined. A body twisted: of tree, of branch, of bone. It seeks to unearth the layers of meaning buried within the woven sinew of earth and flesh.