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Lorna Robertson

LORNA ROBERTSON

THOUGHTS, MEALS, DAYS Ingleby 25 June–17 September 2022 Edinburgh
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This summer Ingleby presents an exhibition of new paintings by Glasgow based Lorna Robertson. It will be her first solo show at the gallery and promises to reveal the remarkable range and energy of her work across scale and subject, combining monumental canvases with tiny fragments. Robertson’s gestural, expressive, and yet finely wrought way of painting leads her into a world of densely coloured and worked images which, as she has said herself ‘sit somewhere between abstraction and figuration, a tangled game of hide- and-seek that plays with the visibility and readability of an image. I often paint to find out what to paint, creating harmonies and tensions through placement of shape, specificity of colour–the process itself becoming an act of revealing’.

The results are curiously hard to pin down - an enormous canvas can contain a quiet intensity and intimacy that ought to be impossible on such a scale and a tiny collage might seem poised to explode with potential energy. There is often an undertone of nostalgia, and a conjuring of time and space that seems both specific and unreliable. They are paintings that resist easy categorisation, seductive in one moment, and obstructive in another - seemingly bold, and yet simultaneously hesitant - if they are about anything, in a collective sense, they are a celebration of the act and process of painting and image making.

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About the Artist

Lorna Robertson was born in Ayr on the west coast of Scotland in 1967. She studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and currently lives and works in Glasgow. Her densely coloured paintings, often made with a combination of oil paint and collage, have a distinctly nostalgic tone; shimmering female forms with swinging skirts from the 1950’s or bonneted bathers from the 1920’s jostle with richly described interiors; and crowded table-tops.

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About the Gallery

Founded in 1998, Ingleby maintains an ambitious program of exhibitions and off-site projects by established and emerging artists. Over the past 14 years, it has secured a reputation as one of the country’s leading private galleries, renowned for the quality of its exhibitions and publications. The gallery represents artists of international standing, whilst also introducing and supporting artists at earlier stages in their career. We are pleased to advise public, private and corporate clients about buying art, and in starting, building and maintaining collections.

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33 Barony Street
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Edinburgh 33 Barony Street
Ingleby contemporary art gallery in Edinburgh United Kingdom
Ingleby
33 Barony Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
+44 131 556 4441
http://www.inglebygallery.com

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Wed - Sat, 11am - 5pm
And by appointment
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