Metamorphosis at An Tobar
An Tobar
Metamorphosis
Lorna Fraser
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An Tobar, Gaelic for The Well, is the arts centre for the islands of Mull and Iona, offering a year round programme of cultural events.
An Tobar is based in a Victorian school building overlooking Tobermory Bay. In 1995, the building was converted into an arts centre after receiving funding from The National Lottery, Foundation for Sports and the Arts, Argyll and Bute Council, Argyll and the Islands Enterprise, the European Regional Development Fund and The Lankelly Foundation.
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An Tobar comprises of The Performance Room, which showcases live music and theatre events, a café and Gallery I and Gallery II which shows a regularly changing programme of contemporary visual arts and crafts. |
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Award-winning Edinburgh-based ceramic artist Lorna Fraser will be An Tobar’s first exhibiting artist of 2005. This exhibition of ceramics will feature a collection of new work especially created for An Tobar. The title of the exhibition represents a new direction in the work of the artist.
Lorna says, 'acquiring a garden recently has led me to explore the connections between the architectural forms that have influenced me for so long and their relationship to plant life. When translating these ideas into clay it is the strength of shape that is important to me.' |
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'I find organic forms particularly statuesque in the dormant winter months and I aim to explore the structure and form of the plant whilst also capturing its fragility. Previous work focused on reliquaries as containers for ashes marking the end of nature’s cycle; whereas the emphasis of the new work is on regeneration: the plants are containers for their life-holding seeds - the beginning of the cycle'. |
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Lorna Fraser graduated in 1984 with a BA Honours from Grays School of Art in Aberdeen. She's won many awards, most recently the David Colvin Prize for exhibited work at the 2004 Society of Scottish Artists Annual Open at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. Major commissions have included Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Arts & Business Scotland. |
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Metamorphosis is on show at Gallery I, An Tobar. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, from 10-4pm. The preview of the exhibition is on Tuesday 1 March from 6pm-8pm, with an opportunity to meet Lorna Fraser.
Please contact Lee Hendrick, Visual Arts and Crafts Officer for further details, either by email or at
An Tobar Art Centre, Argyll Terrace, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, PA75 6PB.
T: 01688 302211. | | |