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Primordial: Life from the Loch

Exhibition at An Talla Solaris, Ullapool
£2,000 awarded

Celebrating Danish ceramicist Lottie Glob, an influential environmental artist based in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.

Portrait photo of a woman with grey hair. She is standing with her face partially obscured behind a sculpture, comprised of two head-sized ceramic objects, the top one painted white and the one underneath black.

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A woman with grey hair looking at small ceramic sculptures of various fantastical creatures.
Three slender cylindrical sculptures standing amid flowers in a meadow.
A table packed with small, unfired clay sculptures.
A kiln packed with small, unfired clay sculptures, spread over four levels.
Portrait photo of a woman with grey hair. She is standing with her face partially obscured behind a sculpture, comprised of two head-sized ceramic objects, the top one painted white and the one underneath black.

About the exhibition

“Lotte thinks about the extraordinary creatures she shares the croft with. They live under the surface of the water. There is a whole civilisation, she tells me, with a large bridge, and they have always been there, happily singing, stargazing and exploring, doing what creatures do.”

Lotte Glob, now in her eighties, has based her life and art practice in the wild and remote far north of Scotland. This timely exhibition takes an in-depth look back at her career, presenting Glob’s contemporary ceramic sculptures within the unique geophysical region that inspired her throughout her creative life.

Through a close, continuing and intense relationship with the landscape of the Scottish Highlands, Glob developed radical creative processes and practice. She gathers raw and unrefined materials from the land – earth and clay, rocks, bones, glass, metal, even an entire boulder – which are then incorporated into the clay forms she fires in the kiln.

The project was developed and hosted by An Talla Solais, Ullapool, the only visual arts centre in the Wester Ross region. Alongside the exhibition, a public engagement programme featured talks and workshops in sculptural ceramics with local school students and community groups.

Primordial: Life from the Loch was on display at An Talla Solaris, Ullapool, from 25 May until 28 July 2024.