Lorraine Robson

Lorraine Robson

E M P T Y V ESSE LS 5th August - 27th September 2017

Lorraine Robson

EM PTY VESSE L S 5th August - 27th September 2017

Join us on for the Opening on Saturday 12th August from 2-4pm the exhibition continues until 27th September

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Lorraine Robson “In a world where pressure is on instant results, dominated by commercialism and technology, I enjoy the meditative nature of allowing the form to evolve with handwork, imagination, and human labour using the most primitive material available - the earth itself”.

While observing ceramic craft traditions the ideas that inform Lorraine Robson’s tranquil, sculptural, contemplative works are derived from the natural world and museum artifacts, with underlying ideas of illness, pollution, sacrifice, decay, mutation, war, lost memory, and lost culture.

TECHNICAL : Work is hand-built, frequently dictated by classic vessel forms, not designed as functional. Straddling the worlds of fine art and craft her work defies categorisation.

“I favour the coiling method of construction, slab and pinching for complex forms. The surface is refined using scrapers when leather hard and further refined using abrasives when dry. Work is fired four times, increasing in temperature. Between each firing the surface is sanded by hand using diamond abrasives, then, Silicon Carbide paper, working down through the grades, coarse to fine to achieve a silky tactile finish. Finally, wax applied and buffed to seal the surface and enhance the naked clay.”

This new work is further development of “Empty Vessels” project funded by Creative Scotland.

Lorraine has exhibited work in select galleries in the UK and internationally for over 20 years, winning prizes and awards for her Sculpture and Ceramics.

Her work is held in private and public collections.

EDUCATION Bachelor of Arts (hons) degree in Sculpture, Heriot Watt, Edinburgh College of Art (1988) SELECTION OF EXHIBITIONS 1987 Dunkeld and Birnam Arts Festival 1988 SSWA 64th Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh.

(Awarded Sculpture Prize.)

1989 Fruitmarket Gallery Open Exhibition, Edinburgh 1991 Collective Gallery Festival Exhibition, Edinburgh 1991 SSA Centenary Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh.

Commissioned installation work.

1993 SSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 1995 Roger Billcliffe Solo Fine Art Gallery, Glasgow 1995 Women Artists” Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington 1995 Riverside Gallery, Stonehaven 1995 The Strathearn Gallery, Crieff 1996 New Works” Solo The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.

1996 Line Gallery, Linlithgow 1996 Peter Potter Gallery, Solo Haddington 1996 T.Garner Gallery, Glasgow.

1995 The Fotheringham Gallery, Bridge of Allan 1997 Coram Gallery, London 1998 James Graham and Sons, Solo New York 1999 Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews 2000 The Bellevue Gallery, Edinburgh1988 2000 Nexus Galleries, Edinburgh 2000 James Graham and Sons, New York 2001 Gold Gallery, Edinburgh 2003 Solo, The Stenton Gallery, Stenton 2004 Solo,Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh 2005 Solo, Goddards Gallery, Portsmouth 2006 AE Contemporary Art (formerly Eyestorm Gallery), Warwick 2006 Residencies, The Park Gallery, Falkirk 2006 The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle upon Tyne 2006 St Andrews Pottery, St Andrews 2006 Galleria Luti, Callander 2007 Multiplicity, InHouse festival exhibition, Edinburgh.

2008 The Smithy, Blanefield 2009 Hanna’s Gallery, Dundee 2009 Timespan Museum, Helmsdale. Craft showcase exhibition

2010 2010 2011 2011 2011

2012 2013 2013 2014 2014 2015 2015 2015 2016 2017

Roger Billcliff Gallery, Glasgow, UK Howden Park Centre, Livingston ‘Unite’ Collins Gallery, Glasgow Return to the Earth, Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington “inside out”, Herzer Palace of the City Museum of Varazdin, Croatia Contemporary Ceramics, London Solo, Offerings, Barony Centre, West Kilbride.UK Solo, Offerings, Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington Line Gallery, Linlithgow.

VAS Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh &Collective Gallery, Bridge of Allan SSA Roselux, Minneapolis, USA RSA Annual Open Exhibition, Edinburgh.

VAS Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh.

Forth Valley Art Beat, Stirling.

AWARDS: 2014 Creative Scotland Bursary towards Creative Development 2012 Vasefinder, awarded 1st prize, Vasefinder 7th

International, USA 2011 Vasefinder, awarded 3rd prize, Vasefinder 6th

International, USA 2009 Forth Valley Craft Makers Award towards Professional

Development research trip 2009 Scottish Arts Council Creative Development Grant 1991 Awarded Arts Council Grant towards commissioned installation 1988 Selina Goodenough Memorial Prize for Sculpture INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS: 2016 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Yingge Ceramics Museum.

2014 4rd International Triennial of Silicate Arts, Hungary.

2013 8th International Biannual of Ceramics Kapfenberg Austria 2012 Invited artist. The IV International Festival of

Postmod ern Ceramics, KERAMEIKON, Croatian

Ceramic Association, Varazdin 2012 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale. Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan.

2011 3rd International Triennial of Silicate Arts, Hungary.

2011 7th International Biannual of Ceramics presented by

the City of Kapfenberg, Austria.

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