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Year Created

2021

Year Acquired

2023

Keywords

Women

Cultures

Canadian

Medium

Embroidery

Art Forms

Fibre

Dressing Up

by: Anna Torma

I made this work in 2021 summer, in covid time.

I applied collages to the white silk surface, incorporated fine line drawings and played with

black and white forms.

I figured out, how the different figures; the funny and more serious ones, wearing their clothes

as skins. They masquerades and play hide away for fun and perhaps for survival.

The Dressing up is part of the series, what I exhibited in 2023 at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in

Clavette/Torma: Resisting Constraints, curated by Ray Cronin as the Saidye Bronfman Award

Laureate, 2020

Small anna torma Anna Torma
Anna Torma has been producing large-scale hand embroidered wall hangings and collages since graduating from the Hungarian University of Applied Arts, Budapest, in 1979. Her latest exhibition: Permanent Danger is a touring show, mounted by the Textile Museum of Canada in 2020.
Her works are in private, corporate and public collections.
She  is the recipient of the 2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts  Saidye Bronfman Award and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. 
She immigrated to Canada in 1988 and now lives in Baie Verte, New Brunswick. 

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