For the 2022 festival, Ingleby presented an exhibition of new paintings by Glasgow based Lorna Robertson. It was the artist’s first solo show at the gallery, promising 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.

Within Robertson’s work, 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.