Family Moved to India 1958
Family Moved to the UK 1962
Anthems by Juginder Lamba
commisioned by South Asian Diaspora Arts Archive
JUGINDER LAMBA South Asian Diaspora Arts Archive WWW.
Educated
1995 Henry Moore Fellowship in Sculpture, John Moores University, Liverpool
1978 Postgraduate Diploma in Education, St Martins College, Lancaster
1969 BA Hons, Politics and Philosophy, University of Lancaster
Exhibitions ⬥ Individual ( selected )
2015 Urbanzen , New York and Aspen
2008 Body & Soul, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
2005 -2025 Le Manoir Aux Quat Saisons, Great Milton, Oxford – Raymond Blanc
2003 Woburn Fine Arts, Woburn
1997 Independent Thoughts, Custard Factory, Birmingham
From the Wood, Bluecoat Art Centre, Liverpool
1993 Retrospective, Bond Gallery, Birmingham
1992 Icarus, Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery
Woburn Fine Arts, Woburn
1989 Jonathan Poole Gallery, London
1986 Relics, Commonwealth Institute, London
1985 Relics, Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale
1984 Westbourne Gallery, London
1977 Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Exhibitions ⬥ Group ( selected )
2023 A Tall Order, Rochdale Art Gallery
2017 Public View, Blucoat Arts Centre, Liverpool
2007-09 How Art is Made, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
2005 British Museum, London Gardens For Africa, Groundforce, BBC television
2000 Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton
Routes, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London
1997 Transforming the Crown…, Bronx Museum, New York
1996 Dak’art 96 Senegal Biennale, Senegal
1995 National Museum Of Art, Gabarone, Botswana
1994 Sculpture/installation, National Maritime Museum, Liverpool
1993 Installation, Honeymoon Project, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1992 Trophies of Empire (sculpture/installation), Liverpool and Hull
1991 II Sud del Mondo/South of the World, Galleria Civica d’arte, Marsala, Italy
1988 Myth, Wood and Chisel, Arts Council of England, Touring
1986 Beyond Appearances, Nottingham Museum
Commissions
2010 Sound Pods – Center for Music, Art, and Technology, Birmingham
2009 Amaphrodite – Center for Music, Art, and Techonology, Birmingham
Three Counties Flower Show, Malvern
Impact Summer School, Walsall, sculpture for the Millenium Garden
CENTRO, Birmingham, a series of four commissions for outdoor sites
2001 Sacred Land Project, Birmingham, a 4 meter tall sculpture of the Buddha
2000 BBC TV Charlie’s Garden Army, Smallheath Community Garden
1999 ‘Two Trees’ Sacred Land Project, Birmingham
1998 Art for the Very Young, Walsall
1996 Pod, Bellevue Sculpture Park, Dudley
1996 Family, Sheriffhales County Primary School, Telford
1996 Dakarock, Dakar, Senegal
1993 Reaching for the Sun, Relief Carving, wall mounted, Angle Centre, Worcester
1990-92 The Icarus Project, series of site-specific sculptures, London, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Cheshire, Shropshire, Walsall
1992 The Cry, Sculpture/installation, Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool
Ramayana, Relief sculpture, Yardley Wood Library, Birmingham
1991 Temple 1, Woodside shopping Centre, Telford, Shropshire
Public Collections
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham
Dakar, Senegal
National Museum & Art Gallery, Gabarone, Botswana
Angel Centre, Worcester
Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
Yardley Wood Library, Birmingham;
Urban Wildlife Trust, Birmingham;
Walsall Arboretum, Walsall;
Cartwright Hall, Bradford;
Private Collections
Work in numerous private collections, both nationally and internationally
Published Works
2025 The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History
2018 Stick To The Skin – Celeste-Marie Brenier
African American & Black Brtitish Art 1965-2015
2007 Juginder Lamba – Sculptures, published by Leaf and Stream
2001 Beyond Frontiers, with Amal Gosh and Antonia Payne, Saffron Books
2001 Independent Practices, with Bryan Biggs, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Routes, exhibition catalogue, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London
1997 Transforming The Crown, published by African Diaspora Instute, New York, USA
1995 From the Wood, catalogue, Bluecoat Art Centre, Liverpool
1991 Il Sud del Mondo, catalogue, Marsala, Italy
1986 Sculptures, Juginder Lamba, , Woburn Fine Arts, Woburn
1985 Relics, exhibition catalogue, Rochdale Art Gallery
Published/Broadcast Reviews
Gardens For Africa from the British Museum, BBC 1, Groundforce
Living In The Woods BBC Radio 4, Natural History Unit, 25.O2.O2
Review of Routes, Times Metro, 13-19 February 1999.
Les Cahiers de la Sculpture April-June 1999
Paris Alumni Magazine issue17 Winter 1998
Art Monthly, October 1997.
Robert Clark, The Guardian, August 1995.
Juginder Lamba – A Retrospective, Sumitra Sastri, Asian Times, Issue No 552, 26 October 1993.
South Asian Contemporary Arts, The Times, September 1993.
The Independent November 11 1992
Sean Cubitt, Review of Trophies of Empire, Third Text, Issue 21, Winter 1992/93.
The Late Show, The Honeymoon Project, BBC2, 1992.
Pogus Caesar, Here and Now, Central TV and Channel Four, 1989.
David Lee, Review-Exhibition, Art Review, September 1986.
Other Related Work
1971 Founder member of New Planet City Community Art Workshop, Lancaster
1974 Founder member of Earthbound Theatre, performance art company
1980 Appointed as Lancaster’s First Town Artist
1990-93 Icarus Project – with artist Tony Phillips. 4 to 6 week residencies in six venues nationally resulting in site-specific installations
Instigated and directed South Asian Contemporary Visual Arts Festival, Midlands. Produced Beyond Frontiers, resulting from the Festival and published in 2000.
1997 Devised and co-ordinated, in conjunction with Bryan Biggs,from the Bluecoat, Liverpool, Independent Thoughts.
This was a series of artists’ commissions in Liverpool and Birmingham looking at notions of independence in the post-colonial world, to co-incide with the 50th anniversary of Indian Independence.
Symposia
1997 Paper delivered at Bronx Museum, New York
1997 Paper delivered at Independent Practices – Creativity,Culture and Education in the Postcolonial World
1996 Paper delivered at Diversity in Visual Art Practice, Centre for Art International Research in collaboration with the Bluecoat, Liverpool
Paper delivered at Contemporary South Asian Visual Arts, Birmingham