Artist Bio
Lorna Phillips grew up in Dumfries and Galloway. She graduated in sculpture from Edinburgh College of Art in 2021. Lorna received the Clason-Harvie Bursary for her graduate project, was awarded the Houliston Craft Award by Craft Scotland in 2022, exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries 2023 show, and was awarded the prestigious Glenfiddich Residency Prize as a result. Lorna is currently an artist in residence at Villa Sonnenberg in Switzerland, and is preparing for a solo exhibition in November.
Artist Statement
Lorna Phillips’ research-based practice excavates traces of material culture and social history by journeying into the biographies of the land. Acts of collecting and re-distributing are led by an urge to discover the artist’s surroundings. The material of clay provides the path into the landscape and what it holds. Lorna intends to delve into the stories that certain places hold; within their communities and their long histories, and within the land itself, its formation. These stories are discovered through archaeology, geology and anthropology. The sourcing of the materials that form the works, the physical journeys involved in this process are key to the artist’s practice. Lorna aims to explore connections between people and place, asking questions of inheritance, foundations and our roles in our beginnings and our
ends.
CV
Education
2017-2021 First Class BA (Hons) Sculpture, The University of Edinburgh
(Including Erasmus exchange at Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Estonia)
Awards
2024 Open Fund for Individuals, Creative Scotland
2024 Emerge, Upland, The Holywood Trust and The Archie Sutter Watt Trust
2023 Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award, Creative Scotland and City of Edinburgh Council
2023 Glenfiddich Residency Award, Glenfiddich International Residency Programme, William Grant and Sons
2022 Houliston Craft Award, Craft Scotland
2021 RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy
2021 Clason-Harvie Bursary, Edinburgh College of Art
Residencies
Now - December 2024 Villa Sonnenberg (Switzerland)
2023 Glenfiddich International Residency Programme (Scotland)
Exhibitions
Upcoming: 22nd November 2024, Solo Exhibition at Villa Sonnenberg, Lenzburg, Switzerland
2024 Now and Then: Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Exhibition Part Two, Dalkeith Palace (Dalkeith, Scotland)
2024 Spring Fling, Upland (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland)
2024 Then and Now: Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
(Edinburgh, Scotland)
2023 Society of Scottish Artists 125th Annual Exhibition, The MacLaurin Art Gallery (Ayr, Scotland)
2023 Artists at Glenfiddich Second Exhibition, Glenfiddich Distillery Gallery (Dufftown, Scotland)
2023 Artists at Glenfiddich, Glenfiddich Distillery Gallery (Dufftown, Scotland)
2023 RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2022 Embassy Annuale 2022, Embassy Gallery (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2022 Modern Makers, Gracefield Arts Centre (Dumfries, Scotland)
2021 ECA Graduate Show 2021, Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2020 s03e02, Layerjeva hiša (Kranj, Slovenia)
2020 Space Jam, Reid Concert Hall (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2019 Something, anything, everything, nothing I think we made it?!, Raja Gallery (Tallinn, Estonia)
2019 100 Cups (Solo Exhibition), Vent Space Gallery (Tallinn, Estonia)
2019 Kalle, ISFAG Gallery (Tallinn, Estonia)
Collections
2023 Glenfiddich International Residency, William Grant and Sons Collection
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Lorna Phillips CV.pdf