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Lorna RobertsonJane Jane, 2022oil on paper88.5 x 72.3 cm
34 7/8 x 28 1/2 in
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102.3 x 85.4 cm
40 1/4 x 33 5/8 in
(framed)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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Lorna Robertson
Leisureline, 2015 -2016
oil on canvas
250.5 x 417.5 x 4 cm
98 5/8 x 164 3/8 x 1 5/8 in -
Lorna RobertsonWords murmured, 2022oil on canvas217 x 253 x 4 cm
85 3/8 x 99 5/8 x 1 5/8 in"Making a big painting is a bit like dancing or something, you've got to feel relaxed and trust that you’ll find the rhythm and that your coordination to do it is going to work...You think you're not going to manage, but it turns out you can do it. Somehow it is there in your head, and you can work on different parts of the canvas and draw all the bits together."
- Lorna Robertson
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Lorna RobertsonWe are the robots, 2022oil on canvas256 x 246 cm
100 3/4 x 96 7/8 in"I don’t tend to start a painting with an image in mind. I am more likely to be driven by a strong feeling and begin with a pattern or a colour or a shape. I might even start with a word or a phrase. The paintings are really about fragments of memories and associations, so I suppose in that sense they are more like poetry than story-telling." - LR
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Lorna Robertson
Try see, try say, 2022
oil on canvas
184 x 262 x 4 cm
72 1/2 x 103 1/8 x 1 5/8 in -
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Lorna RobertsonDumb, 2022oil on canvas90 x 82 x 4 cm
35 3/8 x 32 1/4 x 1 5/8 in -
Lorna RobertsonBenedictus, 2022oil on canvas82 x 95 x 4 cm
32 1/4 x 37 3/8 x 1 5/8 in -
Lorna RobertsonWe are, we are, 2022oil on canvas59.5 x 63 x 4 cm
23 3/8 x 24 3/4 x 1 5/8 in -
Lorna RobertsonA cure, 2022oil on canvas87 x 62 x 4 cm
34 1/4 x 24 3/8 x 1 5/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonSaints and liars, 2022oil on canvas85 x 81.5 x 4 cm
33 1/2 x 32 1/8 x 1 5/8 in"At the centre of Saints and liars (2022) is a tablecloth scattered with mugs of flowers, all in the cool, sweet, chalky tones of sugared almonds. This painting, on its uneven portion of canvas, has been framed in a border of dark blue-green flowers, so roughly rendered or smeared that they are barely blooms at all. The dark, fragmenting flowers of the border mitigate the risk of the sweetness within, circling the forbidden realm of the domestic, the feminine, and the appealingly decorative. The scratch dryness of the paint, which in places peters out into traces of colour caught on a rough surface, forbids us from indulging in the seductive appeal of what appears, unusually, to be a painting of a physical scene, rather than an arrangement of forms in space."
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Works on paper
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Lorna RobertsonFleeing and fleeing and being, 2021oil on paper81.8 x 109.8 cm
32 1/4 x 43 1/4 in
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91 x 118.8 cm
35 7/8 x 46 3/4 in
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Lorna RobertsonWhere left is always right, 2021oil on paper81.8 x 62 cm
32 1/4 x 24 3/8 in
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94.9 x 73.4 cm
37 3/8 x 28 7/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonWhere the light comes to rest, 2022oil on paper81.8 x 90 cm
32 1/4 x 35 3/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonBig bright, 2022oil on paper99.8 x 140 cm
39 1/4 x 55 1/8 in
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108.9 x 149.2 cm
42 7/8 x 58 3/4 in
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Lorna RobertsonDancer's hidden, 2022oil on paper81.8 x 127.8 cm
32 1/4 x 50 1/4 in
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90.9 x 136 cm
35 3/4 x 53 1/2 in
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Lorna RobertsonWeed, nettles and thorns, 2022oil on paper82 x 126.8 cm
32 1/4 x 49 7/8 in
(paper size)
90.8 x 136.2 cm
35 3/4 x 53 5/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonSoftly so softly, 2021oil on paper81.8 x 126.5 cm
32 1/4 x 49 3/4 in
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90.9 x 136 cm
35 3/4 x 53 1/2 in
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Lorna RobertsonThe part Arvo played, 2022oil on paper85.8 x 121.8 cm
33 3/4 x 48 in
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95 x 131.1 cm
37 3/8 x 51 5/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonCracked, 2021oil on paper81.6 x 69.2 cm
32 1/8 x 27 1/4 in
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Lorna RobertsonSalt, soil, stone, 2022oil and watercolour on paper60.3 x 48.7 cm
23 3/4 x 19 1/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonPatterns, 2022oil and watercolour on paper49 x 24.8 cm
19 1/4 x 9 3/4 in
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Lorna RobertsonSide by side, 2022oil on paper27.2 x 22.4 cm
10 3/4 x 8 7/8 in
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39.4 x 34.6 cm
15 1/2 x 13 5/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonMirror on mirror, 2022oil on paper17.2 x 25.2 cm
6 3/4 x 9 7/8 in
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29.4 x 38.2 cm
11 5/8 x 15 1/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonTranquilisers, 2021watercolour and pencil on paper25 x 17.4 cm
9 7/8 x 6 7/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonHats and coats (ii) , 2022watercolour on paper17.2 x 24.7 cm
6 3/4 x 9 3/4 in
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Lorna RobertsonWe are glass, 2022oil on paper17.4 x 24.7 cm
6 7/8 x 9 3/4 in
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Lorna RobertsonStoop mute, 2022oil on paper29.2 x 29.2 cm
11 1/2 x 11 1/2 in
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Lorna RobertsonWoven and tightened, 2022oil on paper28.6 x 34 cm
11 1/4 x 13 3/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonMorning rain, 2021oil on paper29.5 x 27.5 cm
11 5/8 x 10 7/8 in
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42.5 x 39.7 cm
16 3/4 x 15 5/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonTears run rings, 2021oil on paper42.4 x 38.9 cm
16 3/4 x 15 1/4 in
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Lorna Robertson | thoughts, meals, days: .
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