I am delighted to have been selected as the Winner of the Scottish Landscape Sculpture Award and a £2,000 commission to create the first prize trophy sculpture for the 2025 Scottish Landscape Awards. The winning work, Rising From The Cracks, is new work which is inspired by the tiny mosses and lichens that grow in abundance all around us, but largely go unnoticed. It was particularly exciting as this is the inaugural Scottish Sculpture Awards exhibition and I am very proud to be included in such a wonderful and diverse exhibition which covers two floors of the City Art Centre in Edinburgh.

The Scottish Landscape Awards is a biennial event open to anyone over 16 years born, living or studying in Scotland, and for works in any media. The judges were Barbara Rae, David Mach, Ade Adesina, Marian Leven and Jane & Louise Wilson and there were over 2,8000 entries of which 133 were selected. The awards as conceived by the Scottish Arts Trust encourage “an environment where landscape is a springboard for investigation, experimentation and discourse”.

Read more about Scottish Landscape Awards: www.scottishartstrust.org/results-landscape

Scottish Landscape Awards
Exhibition dates: 4 November 2023 – 3 March 2024
City Art Centre, Edinburgh

Images from top:
‘Rising From the Cracks’ by Lorna Fraser. Photo: Shannon Tofts.
Sara Cameron McBean, Barbara Rae and Lorna Fraser. Photo: Greg Mcvean
Lorna Fraser with her winning entry. Photo: Greg Mcvean

I am over the moon to have been selected for a residency which will take me to the Isle of Eigg this September. Awarded by Bothy Project in conjunction with Visual Arts Scotland, I’ll be heading to Sweeney’s Bothy for a week so that I can observe, photograph and draw the tiny Bryophytes that grow in abundance on the island.
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I am delighted to have been invited to be included in the prestigious Homo Faber Guide which is a directory of European craft excellence.

The Homo Faber guide is presented by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship which is an international non-profit organisation that celebrates and preserves master craftsmanship and strengthens its connection to the world of design.

Delighted that the commission Forth Flora: A Study In Porcelain is now in situ at the new haematology wing of the Western General hospital, Edinburgh. It was nerve wracking transporting and hanging the work but thanks to the brilliant Alastair Letch (who made the bespoke boxes) the whole day went like clockwork and the boxes are now safely hanging in the treatment room.