Lorna Phillips graduated in sculpture from Edinburgh College of Art in 2021. She was awarded the Clason-Harvie Bursary upon graduation, and more recently the Houliston Craft Award by Craft Scotland. Lorna has worked and exhibited in Scotland and Estonia. Her practice excavates traces of material culture and social history by journeying into the biographies of the land. The material of clay provides the path into the landscape and what it holds.
This body of work is an investigation into ground, support, and what it means to hold and be held. Undulating valleys and sloping moors provide the canvas for these ideas. Each piece has been produced in collaboration with the artist’s father, Joseph Phillips. A joiner by trade, Joe has built the wooden plinths and boxes that support each sculpture.
The sculptural vessels explore landscape as something that we live within and from. They portray hills as forms that encapsulate belonging, foundation and an unwavering certainty and yet unpredictability in their wildness. The hills can be seen as both a powerful mass to live in the shadows of, and as a home to be held by.
