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Lorna HOBBS
Azure Kingfishers 2022
ceramic glazed stoneware
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1st Apr – 30th Apr 2022
Gallery Shop
Lorna Hobbs’ Precious and Precarious features in the Gallery Shop throughout April. The display includes a selection of pots, mugs, brooches and small sculptures depicting Australian endangered animals. Hobbs’ works are partly a response to the devastating bushfires of 2019-2020, and also to continuing land management practices. She explains “the bushfires killed or displaced three billion animals; many were already listed as endangered, some critical, yet land clearing continues. The animals I sculpt are too precious to lose…or just preciously unique and beautiful — some like the Numbat or Eastern-barred Bandicoot are little known to the majority of Australians.”
Lorna Hobbs began wildlife ceramics in 2007, when her first sculpture — a Kookaburra — seemingly ‘came to life’ in her hands. Her years of painting and drawing animals, plus untold hours photographing them, informs her work. Using her art practice to highlight environmental concerns also extends on decades of teaching Science, where she would explore nature and wildlife issues with her students. Lorna is a member of the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia; Valley Potters Inc.; and is the current President of Broken River Potters, Benalla. Having entered regional and national art exhibitions since 2014, she has won numerous awards and sold work to various private collectors.
All works in the Gallery Shop are available for purchase from Benalla Art Gallery,
or by contacting the Gallery on: T 03 5760 2619 or gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au