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INSTALMENTS | LORNA ROBERTSON
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INSTALMENTS is a new series of on-line viewing rooms that complements our exhibition programme; highlighting the work of artists living and working close to home.
To accompany the on-line project new work by each artist will also have a physical presence on the east wall the 'Feast Room', our actual viewing room on the first floor of the Glasite Meeting House, our gallery in Barony Street, Edinburgh.
The first artist in this series is Glasgow based Lorna Robertson.
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WATCH: Lorna Robertson in the studio October 2020 -
"I like that paintings are silent, and they have no beginnings or ends, words or certainties."
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.
"My paintings" she says, "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 characters in her work are at once deeply evocative, and yet strangely anonymous. They conjure an unreliable sense of time and place, flitting between decades and moods from one moment to the next. Hints and glimpses of something tangible - a fashion model, for example, or a vase of flowers, appear and then fragment into painterly patterns and explosions of colour.
All prices are quoted exclusive of framing, unless otherwise stated. -
works
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Lorna RobertsonLiving Mountain, 2019oil on paper91 x 136 x 7 cm
35 7/8 x 53 1/2 x 2 3/4 in
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Lorna RobertsonStill life at North Berwick, 2016oil on paper82 x 127 cm/ 32 1/4 x 50 in (paper size)
91 x 136.2 x 7 cm/ 35 7/8 x 53 5/8 (framed) -
Lorna RobertsonThe swimmer, 2020collage, oil on paper37.2 x 54.4 cm
14 5/8 x 21 3/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonSometime in the 70s, 2020oil on paper29 x 35 cm/ 11 3/8 x 13 3/4 in (paper size)
41 x 47.2 cm/ 16 1/8 x 18 5/8 in (framed)
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Lorna RobertsonBistro Zicke, 2020collage, oil on paper44.8 x 34.5 cm
17 5/8 x 13 5/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonThe violinist , 2020oil on paper44.7 x 22 cm
17 5/8 x 8 5/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonSeparate trails, 2020oil on book page36.2 x 27.5 cm
14 1/4 x 10 7/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonAuchmithie, 2020oil on paper31.8 x 25.6 cm
12 1/2 x 10 1/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonMarina road 1972, 2020collage, oil on paper24.3 x 30.3 cm
9 5/8 x 11 7/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonBackstage, 2020oil on paper30 x 20 cm/ 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in (paper size)
41 x 32.7 cm/ 16 1/8 x 12 7/8 in (framed) -
Lorna RobertsonTwo of us, 2020oil and collage on paper (framed)30 x 37 cm/ 11 3/4 x 14 5/8 in (paper size)
42 x 49 cm/ 16 1/2 x 19 1/4 in (framed) -
Lorna RobertsonBoutique , 2020oil on paper21 x 29 cm/ 8 1/4 x 11 3/8 in (paper size)
33 x 41 cm/ 13 x 16 1/8 in (framed)
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Lorna RobertsonA search for stillness , 2020oil on paper17.5 x 25.2 cm
6 7/8 x 9 7/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonJumble sale dress, 2020oil on paper29 x 20 cm
11 3/8 x 7 7/8 in (unframed) -
Lorna RobertsonTheir beginning, 2020oil and collage on paper28.3 x 21.5 cm
11 1/8 x 8 1/2 in
(paper size)
40.5 x 33.7 cm
16 x 13 1/4 in
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Lorna RobertsonThe opera singer, 2020oil on paper14.5 x 20.5 cm
5 3/4 x 8 1/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonIn a very short time, 2020oil on paper17.5 x 12.5 cm
6 7/8 x 4 7/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonBetween the weather and a teacup, 2020oil on paper17.5 x 12.5 cm
6 7/8 x 4 7/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonWithout you, 2020watercolour and oil on paper14 x 20 cm
5 1/2 x 7 7/8 in
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Lorna RobertsonDaphne, 2020Oil, pen and pencil on paper13 x 24 cm
5 1/8 x 9 1/2 in
(unframed)GBP £2,000 (+ UK VAT if applicable)
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Lorna RobertsonSometimes like loneliness, 2020pencil on paper17.5 x 12.3 cm
6 7/8 x 4 7/8 in
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24.4 x 19.3 cm
9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in
(framed)GBP £1,200 (+ UK VAT if applicable) -
Lorna RobertsonDuet, 2020pencil on paper12.7 x 17.5 cm
5 x 6 7/8 in
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19.3 x 24.4 cm
7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in
(framed)GBP £1,200 (+ UK VAT if applicable) -
Lorna RobertsonHer clothes, her hair, her shoes, 2017pencil on paper14.3 x 20.5 cm
5 5/8 x 8 1/8 in
(paper size)
22.1 x 27.5 x 2.6 cm
8 3/4 x 10 7/8 x 1 1/8 in
(framed)GBP £1,200 (+ UK VAT if applicable) -
Lorna RobertsonMilly Molly Mandy, 2020pencil on paper14.3 x 20.5 cm
5 5/8 x 8 1/8 in
(paper size)
22.1 x 27.5 x 2.6 cm
8 3/4 x 10 7/8 x 1 1/8 in
(framed)GBP £1,200 (+ UK VAT if applicable)
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VISIT
To view the new works by Lorna Robertson that are currently on display at the gallery please book an appointment via our main exhibition booking link here>>
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