A Glasgow-based artist, DJ and musician, Jim Lambie is known for transforming spaces into dynamic, immersive environments animated by colour, rhythm and pattern. His work reverberates between sound and colour; music and optical theory; psychedelics and physics; mass-produced objects and the handmade – collapsing distinctions between subject and object. Drawing on the visual and sonic cultures of rock and roll, psychedelia and synaesthesia, Lambie approaches colour as both sensation and structure.

Lambie’s acclaimed Metal Box series is informed by colour theory and synaesthesia, equating the chromatic spectrum with musical tempo and tone. Inspired by the music industry, the folded sheets of painted aluminium emulate the peeling gig posters once found in the streets and pubs of his native Glasgow. Referencing the strategies of 1960s Pop, Lambie engages with ideas of mass production and consumption. Bright, high-gloss colours are arranged in tightly calibrated compositions that transition between optical vibration and sculptural form, producing works that feel at once industrial and rhythmic, precise yet sensorially charged.