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Lara Orman’s art practice explores metaphysical issues and paradoxes in conflict with Eastern and Western Philosophies. Through printmaking, surreal drawing; haptic and automatic drawing and painting, Orman seeks to draw the flowing patterns that make up the world and what lies beyond the material surface.
Influence is drawn from her surrounding nature and trips to wild places, experiencing the effects of time over the place she is within. Imagining layers of elemental carved, dust - drifted landscapes and a glimpse of their forgotten past, merged with the present, in which gives her a sense of what lies ahead from looking back. Influence ranges from Mythology, Esoteric literature, Speculative realism, Cosmic Horror fiction, the many sub-genres of Metal music and record cover art, along with the artwork of the Romantics.
Future Exhibitions
31/10 - 21/11/20 - Mercurial Night - Arusha Gallery - Edinburgh
Group Exhibitions
2020- Exercise Three - Arusha Online Gallery (https://www.arushagallery.com/exhibitions/65/works/)
2020- Satellite - Alma College- Michigan -USA
2020- Circle - Printmaking Gallery - DJCAD - Dundee
2019- MFA AH- Descend beneath the Surface - Cooper Gallery - Dundee
2019- New Contemporaries- Forgotten Lands - Royal Scottish Academy - Edinburgh
2018- Degree Show - Mysteries of the Beyond - DJCAD - Dundee
2018- Print Exchange between DJCAD and NSCAD - Reception Gallery, DJCAD - Dundee
2017- Shelter Stone – The Artist and The Mountain, Multiple locations - Scotland
2017- Resources - Anna Leonowens Gallery - Halifax, Nova Scotia - Canada
2017- Virtual Landscapes- VRC space- Dundee Contemporary Arts - Dundee
2017- The Undiscovered Landscape - Matthew Gallery, DJCAD - Dundee
Awards
2019- Arusha Gallery Award
2018- William Sangster Philips Scholarship
2018- Making Matters Award
2018- Royal Scottish Academy, New Contemporaries selected Artist
Education
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee – Scotland
2018- 2019 - MFA Art and Humanities
2014- 2018 - BA Fine Art
