Details

First Name	Lorraine
Last Name	Robson
Username	lorrainerobson
Website	http://www.lorrainerobson.co.uk
Region	Edinburgh & The Lothians
Disciplines	Ceramics, Installation, Sculpture
Themes	Abstract, Architecture, Environment, Identity, Site-specific, Narratives

Statement

Lorraine Robson is an established professional artist. She has have over 30 years exhibiting work, undertaking arts residencies and tutoring. As an Edinburgh College of Art graduate her ceramic artworks, rooted in craft disciplines, are based solidly in fine art.

Robson employs traditional ceramic methods of production such as coiling, pinching, slab construction, slump moulding and altering. Recent work relies on multiples; slip cast elements in clay, Alpha K and cold cast resin from plaster or silicon moulds produced from her ceramic originals.

The ideas informing her work are derived from her observations in life and nature. Whether vessel or wall installation inspiration is of equal importance as aesthetics and craftsmanship.

Her sculptural wall relief panels and ceramic vessels are deliberately abstract in nature but reference the objects and ideas that inform the work. “I strive to balance recognisable imagery in the abstraction to suggest a mood or themes. It’s important to allow the viewer to ‘read’ and relate to the ideas.

Biography

Lorraine Robson studied sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art gaining a BA (honours) degree and currently works from her custom built studio in the outskirts of Edinburgh.

As a recipient of a number of Arts Council/ Creative Scotland awards she was recently awarded National Lottery funding through Creative Scotland to present work at Collect 2020. This installation was adapted for inclusion in the SSA 130 years exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy.

Robson has represented the UK at prestigious Ceramic European and International juried competitions including Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Taiwan, and USA.

In 2017 she was one of two artists selected through Crafts Council to promote the best in contemporary UK craft abroad by Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Her coiled, diamond polished vessel, Be Still Life, is now in FCO permanent collection, displayed in the ambassador’s residence Islamabad.

Her work is held in private and public collections.