Limited Edition
Fine Art Giclee Prints
Limited Edition
Fine Art Giclee Prints
TROSSACHS NARRATIVES
TROSSACHS NARRATIVES
Trossachs Textiles
The Trossachs Collection is a personal exploration into the notion of home. Home involves an interaction between nature, community and warm human contact. To achieve this, the Trossachs Collection creates a conversation between Scotland's traditional past, and the landscape's contemporary present. Through an exploration and personal connection to her home environment, Orla aims to translate the environmental experience into textile designs. With a focus on colour, texture and tactility, this collection encourages similar experiences of emotions and connections for the user. Inspired by local folklore, history, music and landscape of the Trossachs National Park, these influences intertwine and result in this collection of printed and embroidered double sided blankets.
Trossachs blankets represent metaphorical nomadic homes: Encasing the user in their very own transportable textile home, which may be taken anywhere. When wrapped in a Trossachs blanket, you are immersed in your own sense of place, of home, wherever you may go.
Through painting, Orla’s work explores the human connections and experiences of wild land and seascapes.
Paintings are informed by plein-air trips, where Orla documents her time spent within the landscape: recording emotional reactions to the sights and sounds of natural locations.
Orla often uses historical and folklore narratives connected to research sites, to further inform her paintings, and frequently explores these remote locations with wild camping and hillwalking trips.
Painting research takes Orla all across Scotland; from her local landscape of the Trossachs National Park where her studio is based, to further afield; delving into the natural rhythms from the West Coast, Outer Hebrides, Orkney Isles and North Atlantic sea.
EXHIBITIONS
2021
'Sagas and Seascapes' commissioned for exhibition and video concert - Online
'Sound Exchange' Aural Textiles - InSpace, Edinburgh
2020
'Over the Rainbow' Group Exhibition - The Tolbooth, Stirling
'Changing Tides' Exhibition - Scottish Society of Artists - Online
'Transparency', Bannockburn House - Group Exhibition
Artisan &, Aberfeldy - Group Winter Exhibition
Found Gallery, Dunbar - Group Winter Exhibition
The Velvet Easel Gallery, Portobello - Group Winter Exhibition
The Green Gallery, Dollar - Group Winter Exhibition
The Whitehouse Gallery, Kircudbright - Group Winter Exhibition
Sight & Sound - Solo Exhibition - Macrobert Arts Centre
Postponed to 2021
Artisan & - Group Exhibitions, January, March, April Online
2019
Drawn Threads - RogArt Studios - Curator & Exhibitor
Perthshire Open Studios - Callander
Fife New Contemporaries - Online Exhibition
Teran Community - Online Exhibition
2018
Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show, Edinburgh
New Designers Textile Fair, London
Tangible Sounds, Aural Textiles, Forres
2014 - 2018
The colony of Artists Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
EDUCATION
2018
Textiles BA (1st class Hons) Edinburgh College of Art
2014
Tramway Visual Arts Studio Portfolio Course
AWARDS
2020
VACMA - Graduate Award Forth Valley
2018
Worshipful Company of Dyers - Colour Award
Callander Hydro Trust Award
CIRKEL Home - Sustainability Award
RESIDENCY
2021
'Sagas and Seascapes' - Kirkwall, Orkney
2018 - 2021
Aural Textiles Design Research RSE / GSA
FEATURES
2020
Interview - Loch Ness Living
2019
The Great Outdoors Magazine - August
The Skinny - June