Artist to Artist Max Lamb and Martino Gamper
26 March 2025
In the Utzon Room
Talks and Ideas
Today’s artist in conversation, here and now.
Industrial designers and artists Max Lamb and Martino Gamper experiment with design. With world renowned design practices that test the limits of materials, these two artists work independently to reconsider the traditional boundaries of craft, design and furniture making.
In an intimate conversation in the Utzon Room, Max and Martino centre their firebrand humour, and lifelong friendship, in a thoughtful discussion on how the design process can poetically remake the built world.
| Date | Time |
| Wednesday 26 March, 2025 | 6.30pm |
| Ticket | Price |
| Standard | $25 |
| Concession* | $20 |
| Multipack | |
| Purchase tickets to two or more Artist to Artist events for 20% off | $20 |
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Run time
The total duration of this event is approximately 75 minutes. This includes a 60 minute conversation between the artists followed by a 15 minute moderated audience Q&A.
Event duration is a guide only and may be subject to change.
Age
Suitable for all ages.
Children aged 15 years and under must be accompanied at all times.
The Opera House is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children that visit or engage with us. Read our Child Safety Policy.
Useful information:
Max LambI am interested in the stories that materials tell and how they can be transformed through the process of making.
Martino GamperDesign should not only be a service, it can be an art form.
Artist’s Work
Artist’s Work
Artist Bios
Max Lamb
Max Lamb is a renowned designer known for a deeply personal approach to creating works which resonate with materiality,location, and tradition. Hiscreative exploration spans diverse mediums, including stone carving and bronze casting to lost polystyrene. Lamb’s approach—and outlook on materials precious and inexpensive, natural and synthetic— changed little since graduating from London’s Royal College Of Art in 2006.Born in St. Austell, Cornwall, England in1980, Max Lamb now resides and works in London. He previously held a residency as th eWornick Distinguished Visiting Professor Of WoodArts at California College Of the Arts inSan Francisco. In 2016, Lamb’s work was included intheDesign Triennial Beauty at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian DesignMuseum. In 2018, the Art Institute of Chicago presented his solo exhibition,Exercises in Seating, showcasing the variety and depth ofLamb’s practice over the last two decades. Lamb is represented internationally by S94 Design in New York and Gallery Fumi in London.
Martino Gamper
Martino Gamper lives and works in London. Starting as an apprentice with a furniture maker in Merano, Gamper went on to study sculpture under Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He completed a Masters in 2000 from the Royal College of Art, London, where he studied under Ron Arad.
Working across design and art venues, Martino Gamper engages in a variety of projects from exhibition design, interior design, one-off commissions and the design of mass-produced products for the cutting edge of the international furniture industry.
Gamper has presented his works and projects internationally, selected exhibitions and commissions including: ‘Middle Chair’, The Modern Institute at Pollock House, Glasgow(2017); ’Below Stairs’, Sir John Soane Museum, London, Uk(2016); ’100 Chairs in 100 Days’, MIMOCA, Marugame, Japan (2015); ’design is a state of mind’,Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (2014) ‘Period Room’, Palais De Tokyo, Paris; ’Tu casa, mi casa’, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2013).
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Foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
The venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances.
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