# Jim Lambie artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:32:26.652Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Movements: Contemporary art
- Common media: Adhesive tape, Installation

## About Jim Lambie

Jim Lambie, born in 1964, is a British contemporary visual artist associated with installation art and the use of adhesive tape to transform architectural surfaces. Collectors and exhibition audiences commonly encounter his name in connection with context-specific floor environments, where tape becomes both material and a means of reorganizing how a room is perceived. Lambie was shortlisted for the 2005 Turner Prize with the installation Mental Oyster, an important recognition in his public career. His identity is represented by records at Tate, Wikidata, MoMA, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, RKD, and Art UK, giving search engines and collection systems several stable references for entity matching. The available source material is strongest on his identity, birth year, installation practice, and Turner Prize association. It is less complete on his full chronology, broader range of media, and individual bodies of work, so those areas should be expanded only when stronger institutional documentation becomes available.

## Common works and media

The collected sources most clearly document installation art and the use of adhesive tape, including context-specific floor installations that respond to the shape of an exhibition space. Mental Oyster is the named installation associated with Lambie's 2005 Turner Prize shortlist. This source pack does not establish a comprehensive list of his other media, editions, sculptures, paintings, drawings, or print types, so an appraisal should identify the particular object's materials and relationship to any installation before assigning it to a broader category.

## Market and appraisal context

Jim Lambie's installation practice makes precise object identification especially important in an appraisal. A complete installation, an authorized component, installation documentation, and an unrelated tape-based object are not necessarily equivalent forms of property. Comparable research should therefore begin with the exact work type and medium, followed by the sale date and lot context recorded by the auction house. Appraisily associates the artist with a substantial auction-record set, but the collected source material does not provide lot-level descriptions, realized prices, condition reports, edition information, or provenance. Those records should be reviewed directly before drawing conclusions about value. The available evidence supports comparison and classification, not a prediction of future prices or an assumption that every object connected with an exhibition is independently marketable.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source gaps and unresolved attribution or object-type questions should be reviewed before valuation conclusions are made.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q344051
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jim-lambie-4733
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/22939
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500123581
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/30434742/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003070175
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lambie
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lambie
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Lambie_exhibition_at_Transmission,_Glasgow,_1999.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_lambieR0011915.2.jpg