Sharp and sleek, Joanna Lamb’s Still Matter invites us into a tantalisingly mysterious suburbia, where interiors are unnaturally seamless and exteriors surmount picture perfection.

Large paintings, neon installations and works composed of Laminex occupy Still Matter. The hard-edged and highly refined geometric compositions depict spaces of (sub)urbanity as “an ongoing exploration of the idea of home.” Stylistically, the paintings waver between realism and abstraction. Generic domestic interiors and suburban sites such as backyard pools, kitchens and exteriors are reduced to flat blocks of colour divested of linear perspective and often repeated in tonal variations.

Still Matter continues an investigation into the arrangement of objects, spaces and places that configure everyday life. Employing different media from paint, neon and Laminex my approach to using them is the same. Each work being essentially an arrangement of line, shape and colour. Considered attention is brought to the formal dynamics of the images both internally and in discourse with the works as a group through a reductivist approach to conceptualising them.

- Joanna Lamb, 2015