Anna Torma
OLIVE
Sackville, Canada: Nothing Else Press. 2023
Shawl, 20% silk / 80% wool blend, hand-stitched rolled edge
105 x 105 cm.
Edition of 50, signed card

Anna Torma is a storyteller, stitching fantastical narratives into large, skillful and elaborately embroidered textile works. Torma employs imagery referencing history, daily life, animals, mythological creatures, fruit, flora and fauna, which form a rich visual lexicon that is playful and sensual, with sometimes dark undertones.

For OLIVE, Torma excerpts a detail from one of her sprawling woven tales, in order to highlight the "supporting actors" and "background scenery" that are often overlooked. Here, "olive" is invited to take centre stage, a detail that would otherwise be relegated to the role of minor character.

Anna Torma is a Hungarian born, New Brunswick based artist. She translates contemporary content through traditional hand embroidery which she considers as a “mother tongue”, having learned to sew and embroider as a child from her mother and grandmothers. Working on a large scale, she composes wall hangings, which are rooted in this heritage, but are equally related to other visual art mediums like painting and drawing.  

Anna Torma received the prestigious Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. She is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, recipient of the New Brunswick Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts and of the Strathbutler Award from the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation. For over 40 years,Torma has exhibited her art in Canada and abroad. Many of her works are held in public and private collections around the world. In 2018, Calgary's Esker Foundation presented a major exhibition of the artist's work entitled Book of Abandoned Details. That same year, her work was featured in the exhibition Fait Main/Hand, at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. In 2020 a large-scale solo exhibition titled Permanent Danger was mounted at the Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto. She has a full-career retrospective at the Beaverbrook Gallery, Fredericton. www.annatorma.com

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