The literature of Angela Carter is almost too full of illustrative possibilities and the temptation is to go for baroque.
Lorna Wilson's imagination is dark, however, and her images choose to illustrate this side of Carter's work. In spare, direct drawings, dogs jump and bite, heads roll, giant bees attack. Jauntiness mixes with violence.
In the series of larger pieces, Scottish superstitions are explored. Awkward human figures are caught up in sinister spiders' webs, supposedly to heal wounds. In the works, the figures seem like actors propelled by darker forces outside of themselves. The piece are both disquiting and morbidly interesting. Lorna's work is adult, vigorous and unafraid.
April 1996