Lorna Robertson: Views, Foods, Times
25 June–17 September 2022
Ingleby
33 Barony Street
Edinburgh, EH3 6NX
United Kingdom
This summer season Ingleby provides an exhibition of new paintings by Glasgow primarily based Lorna Robertson. It will be her initial solo display at the gallery and guarantees to expose the impressive assortment and strength of her work throughout scale and subject matter, combining monumental canvases with very small fragments. Robertson’s gestural, expressive, and nevertheless finely wrought way of painting prospects her into a entire world of densely colored and worked photos which, as she has explained herself ‘sit somewhere amongst abstraction and figuration, a tangled game of disguise- and-seek out that plays with the visibility and readability of an impression. I usually paint to obtain out what to paint, producing harmonies and tensions by means of placement of condition, specificity of colour–the course of action by itself starting to be an act of revealing’.
The effects are curiously difficult to pin down – an tremendous canvas can contain a peaceful intensity and intimacy that ought to be extremely hard on these a scale and a small collage may seem poised to explode with prospective electrical power.
There is normally an undertone of nostalgia, and a conjuring of time and room that would seem equally precise and unreliable. They are paintings that resist simple categorisation, seductive in a person instant, and obstructive in yet another – seemingly bold, and still at the same time hesitant – if they are about anything, in a collective sense, they are a celebration of the act and procedure of portray and graphic building.
©2022 Lorna Robertson, Ingleby
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