MICHAEL LUMB

England

"My work is about what it is to be a man of a particular age in a particular country at a particular time. The performance work focuses on the universal problems faced by humanity and the struggle to overcome the problems of our own making."

Ready/not ready, a two hour endurance work,
blindfolded in a silo-cell.
Made for VIP, curated by GRIP.
Butley studios, Suffolk, 2004

Working in performance art, installation, video and bookworks, Michael Lumb had his first one man show nearly 40 years ago. Since then he has exhibited and performed in Britain, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Serbia & Ukraine. Michael Lumb has also written on bookarts and curated a number of bookarts exhibitions in England and abroad. With Emma Johnson he set-up the GRIP partnership to generate and curate international exhibitions in Ipswich and abroad.