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


Download:


Lorna Phillips CV.pdf


Contact:

Email: lorna.phillips1708@gmail.com
Phone: +44 7775808202

Instagram: lorna_.phillips



Lorna Phillips is an emerging artist. Based in Leadhills, Scotland. Working primarily with the material of clay. Graduated in Sculpture from Edinburgh College of Art in 2021.





© Lorna Phillips 2024