Lot
32
BULL
Textile collage, hand embroidery, 2021
42 x 60 cm
Estimate
$1 000
Contemporary wall hanging, hand embroidery, and appliqué on linen base. Silk embroidery threads and some silk materials used in the surface of work, signed as AT’21 with black threads in the middle of the work.
Biographical note
Anna Torma is the winner of the prestigious 2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts – Saidye Bronfman Award. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and a recipient of the New Brunswick Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for High Achievement in Visual Arts and of the Strathbutler Award from the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation. For over forty years, Torma has exhibited her work in Canada and internationally, and she is represented in public and private collections around the world.
Born in Tarnaors, Hungary, in 1952, Torma graduated with a degree in textile art and design from the Hungarian University of Applied Arts, Budapest, in 1979. She immigrated to Canada in 1988 and now lives in Baie Verte, New Brunswick.