Jim Lambie is a demiurge, a magician.

Glasgow-based artist Jim Lambie can transform any space into a visual delight with his geometric tape designs.

Here is an artist who apparently works in a frenzy of pure creativity, spewing out fun and beauty with energy, grace, and a strange, unfettered, totally unpretentious imagination. Without claiming any obvious social or political or indeed personal “meaning”, and yet in ways and in materials that root his imagination naturally and easily in the everyday, Jim Lambie is a demiurge, a magician.

“He can be fruitfully compared with both Joseph Beuys and Jackson Pollock. Like Beuys he has an exceptional ability to take ordinary physical objects and transfigure them into part of his own universe. Like Pollock he pours colour and line in ways that liberate energy and suggest the inner structures of the cosmos. Above all, Lambie is a pure artist – his art is totally self-sufficient in its worth and power. It is distilled energy, concentrated life. Marvellous stuff.” – The Guardian