Anna Torma RCA (born 1952) is a Hungarian-Canadian fibre artist.
Anna Torma | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1952 (age 71–72) Tarnaörs, Hungary |
| Known for | fabric artist |
Work
editTorma specializes in large-scale hand embroideries, and her work draws upon multiple artistic and textile techniques, including appliqué, felting, photo transfer, collage, and quilting.[1][2] She appropriates visual imagery from multiple sources, including anatomical drawings, folk art, and her children's drawings.[3] She combines traditional methods of the Hungarian textile tradition with the radical reclamation of craft art forms from the avant-garde feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s.[4]
Life and career
editTorma was born in 1952 in Tarnaörs, Hungary. She learned to embroider from her mother and grandmothers and studied textile art and design at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts (1974-1979). She received a degree in Textile Art and Design from the Hungarian University of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary in 1979.[5] She immigrated to Canada in 1988.[6] Torma was a 2007 Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, NC.[7]
Torma has exhibited throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe, and her work is held by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the New Brunswick Art Bank, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Owens Art Gallery, and the New Brunswick Museum. Anna Torma: Permanent Danger, a major solo exhibition was organized by the Textile Museum of Canada in 2020.[8] This exhibition travelled to the Art Gallery of Guelph (2021),[9] and the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB (2021).[10]
Recognition
editIn 2008, Anna Torma won the Strathbutler Award from the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation. In 2014 she received the Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in the Visual Arts. She was the 2020 laureate of the Saidye Bronfman Award (Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts) for excellence in the fine crafts.[11] Anna Torma is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[12]
Public collections
edit- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS[13]
- Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB[13]
- Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC[14]
- Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS[14]
- Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY[14]
- New Brunswick Art Bank, Fredericton, NB[14]
- Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB[15]
References
edit- ^ "Anna Torma". Concordia University Art History. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ ""Anna Torma: Book of Abandoned Details"". Esker Foundation. 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ Robinson, Lissa (11 June 2018). ""Fantastical Stitchery"". Galleries West. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Anna Torma: Book of Abandoned Details - Esker Foundation | Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary". Esker Foundation | Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Anna Torma: Permanent Danger". textilemuseum.ca. Textile Museum, Toronto. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "Info". Anna Torma. Archived from the original on 27 February 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- ^ 20 years of Artists-In-Residence McColl Center
- ^ "Anna Torma: Permanent Danger". Owens Art Gallery. 29 March 2022.
- ^ "Anna Torma: Permanent Danger". Art Gallery of Guelph. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "Anna Torma: Permanent Danger – Owens Art Gallery". Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "Saidye Bronfman Award: Anna Torma Visual Artist 2020". Canada Council for the Arts. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
- ^ websolutions.ca. "Anna Torma | Artists | collectionArtNB". www.collectionartnb.ca. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ a b "Anna Torma | Art Gallery of Alberta". www.youraga.ca. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Textile Museum of Canada Announces Major Solo Exhibition of works by Anna Torma, Winner of a 2020 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts" (PDF). Textile Museum of Canada.
- ^ "A-Z of Collection – Owens Art Gallery". Retrieved 30 March 2023.
Bibliography
edit- Koval, Anne; Madill, Shirley (2007), Anna Torma: Needleworks, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery.
- Falvey, Emily; Koval, Anne; Quinton, Sarah, (2021), Anna Torma: Permanent Danger, Textile Museum of Canada. ISBN 9780980908893.