| Statement
Using pastels on paper Lorraine Fernie creates images of single female
figures. The emphasis on weight, mass and movement in space make it
immediately obvious that she has worked as a sculptor. These figures,
created from her imagination, are monumental and tactile with enormous
energy and their own inner life.
History
My training was in Bauhaus-type problem solving and abstraction along
with traditional painting and drawing from life. My main interest
has always been in making images of human beings.
After graduation I started to carve in wood. Some of these sculptures
were also functional objects but all grew out of an interest in the
human figure.
Guardian
Holly wood and household
paint
120x18cm
1982 
Gift Givers
Boxwood and enamel paint
33x5cm
1983 
View of Workshop
1983
In 1985 I changed to working with clay because it is a wonderfully
malleable material. I made free-standing pots and then sculptures
but many of my works at this time were modeled in relief and made
to hang on walls.
Female Figure
Carbon-stained stoneware
60x50cm
1991 
Ophelia
Unglazed stoneware
100x40cm
1990 
Reluctant Phoenix
Carbon-stained stoneware
90x40cm
1992
In 1997 to gain more control over the colours than is possible when
using traditional glazing techniques I began to paint my fired figures
with acrylic paint.
Female
White stoneware, acrylic paint, plaster of paris
66x36cmcm
2000 
Female
White stoneware, acrylic paint, plaster of paris
66x36cmcm
2000 
Female
White stoneware, acrylic paint, plaster of paris
66x36cmcm
2000
I have now returned to making two-dimensional work. These pictures
are made with pencil, charcoal and pastels combined with lines which
are incised into the surface of the paper. Starting from an initial
idea or pose, I work and re-work each image changing the layout, and
the balance of the forms to achieve a clear, human structure.
| Education |
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| 1963 |
BA (Fine Art) Honours, University
of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, specialising in painting
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| Exhibitions |
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| 1987 |
Solo exhibition at The Open Eye Gallery,
Edinburgh
Stand in The Festival Tent, Edinburgh
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| 1988 |
Stand in the Direct Design Show, London
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| 1989 |
Exhibition in the Broughton Gallery,
Biggar
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| 1991 |
Festival Fringe exhibition, Adam Pottery,
Edinburgh
Solo exhibition, Harbour Gallery, Irvine
Solo exhibition, Broughton Gallery, Biggar
Solo exhibition, Burnham Market Church, Norfolk
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| 1992-94 |
Festival Fringe exhibitions, Adam
Pottery, Edinburgh
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| 1995 |
Group exhibition, One from the Heart,
Aberystwyth Art Centre
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| 1997-2000 |
Solo exhibitions at Clerkenwell studio,
London
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| Commissions |
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| 1989 |
Mural for the Italian Centre, Glasgow
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| 1995 |
Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. Cladding
of pillars in entrance hall. Commissioned by Health Care Arts.
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| Awards |
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| 1991 |
Craft Prize SAAC, Exhibition at the
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
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| Publications |
Lorraine Fernie’s work is included
in the following publications:
One from the Heart, exhibition catalogue, Aberystwyth
Arts Centre, 1995
Working with Paper Clay and other additives, Ann Lightwood,
Crowood Press, 2000
The Human Form in Clay, Jane Waller, Crowood Press, 2001
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