Anna Torma

Anna Torma (born 1952) is a Hungarian-Canadian fibre artist. Born in Tarnaörs, Hungary she immigrated to Canada in 1988.[1] She specializes in large-scale hand embroideries, and her work draws upon multiple artistic and textile techniques, including appliqué, felting, photo transfer, collage, and quilting.[2][3] She appropriates visual imagery from multiple sources, including anatomical drawings, folk art, and her children's drawings.[4] 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.[5]

Life and career

Torma 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 (1974-79). She emigrated to Canada in 1988. Torma was a 2007 Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, NC.[6]

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, and the New Brunswick Museum. Some of her works are currently being exhibited at the Textile Museum of Canada.

Recognition

In 2014 Torma 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.[7]

Work
Anna Torma, Fire Monster II






References
  1. "Info". Anna Torma. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  2. "Anna Torma". Concordia University Art History. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. ""Anna Torma: Book of Abandoned Details"". Esker Foundation. 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  4. Robinson, Lissa (11 June 2018). ""Fantastical Stitchery"". Galleries West. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  5. "Anna Torma: Book of Abandoned Details - Esker Foundation | Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary". Esker Foundation | Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  6. 20 years of Artists-In-Residence McColl Center
  7. "Saidye Bronfman Award: Anna Torma Visual Artist 2020". Canada Council for the Arts. Retrieved 20 February 2020.

Bibliography
  • Koval, Anne; Madill, Shirley (2007), Anna Torma: Needleworks, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery.
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