Grace Lambert’s performance work combines text, music, moving image and live performance. Her projects explore themes of disconnection and alienation in relation to technology, work and contemporary life through surreal and absurd narratives. She examines how digital communication, automation and social expectations shape behaviour, relationships and emotional life.

PIXEL TEARS

Pixel Tears is Lambert's one-woman show, following a young woman navigating a post-breakup emotional landscape. Set in her messy bedroom, she finds herself enrolled in an online therapy programme designed to help her ‘recover from her breakup in five days’. Blending performance, music and moving image, the work explores vulnerability, heartbreak and emotional exposure in an increasingly mediated world. 

THE NO NONSENSE CONFERENCE FOR SERIOUS PEOPLE THINKING ABOUT MAYBE LOOKING FOR A DIFFERENT JOB

The no nonsense conference for serious people thinking about maybe looking for a different job is a series of 13 hanging conference cards that have been worn by a prospective service industry worker. The cards show a range of hospitality roles they have test drived. The text on the cards and accompanying leaflet insinuate a future world where the service industry has continued to thrive while automation and AI have replaced most other forms of labour. The need for human contact has become a valuable commodity.

These hand painted acrylic cards explore the desire for self-expression, purpose and connection within increasingly repetitive forms of work. All roles are based on jobs Lambert performed over a number of years. (Longlisted for Robert Walters Group and Saatchi Gallery UK New Artist of the Year 2022)



CHEAP THRILLS


Alongside her solo work, Lambert has performed extensively as one half of performance duo Cheap Thrills, alongside with Noemi Gunea and toured internationally. Their practice combines economics, pop music and dance through performance, film and absurdity. Their work has been presented in gallery and institutional contexts including The Pleasance, Royal Academy of Arts, British Library, Battersea Arts Centre, Arebyte Gallery and the British Museum. 

Three Cheap Thrills films: (Alienation, All Over The Place and Look Within) longlisted for New Contemporaries (2024) and shown at Derby Riverlights (2024).