Exhibition

Exhibition Preview: Masks by Lorraine Pritchard

Pomegranates 2025

(Sat 5 Apr: 5pm)

Join the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland for a preview of Masks - the first solo exhibition in a public institution by Edinburgh’s mask maker, designer and model artist Lorraine Pritchard, artist-in-residence at this year’s Pomegranates Festival and the only Scottish artist performing at the Venice Carnival 2025.

Unmask the secrets of the mask-making heritage craft and find out more about masks and traditional dance in the company of the artist and her collaborators. Plus, explore Lorraine’s masks hand-crafted in the Venetian tradition, the photographs of the artists' masks shot on location from Arthur’s Seat to the canals of Venice and the new behind-the-scenes documentary by Franzis Sánchez.

Masks continues at the Scottish Storytelling Centre until Monday 12 May. It is complemented by another exhibition featuring more of Lorraine’s Venetian masks, plus books about Venice and the Carnevale at Edinburgh Central Library (1-30 April 2025), also curated as part of Pomegranates Festival. This is Lorraine's first solo exhibition in a public institution. It is curated across the two venues by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland in an ongoing partnership with the Edinburgh City Libraries and the Scottish Storytelling Centre as part of Pomegranates, Scotland's springtime festival of world trad dance and its links with live music, film, poetry, art, craft and fashion.

Find out more about Pomegranates Festival 2025.

• Events
• £0.00
• 5 April 2025
• 120 minutes
• 17:00
• Scottish Storytelling Centre
• Storytelling Court