‘Another missed lunar event’, Orla Kane , 2024, Oil on board, 30.3 x 22.8cm, 12 x 9 inches
‘Pearl’, Orla Kane , 2024, Oil bar and oil on board, 20.1 x 20.1cm, 8 x 8 inches
Blue Shop Gallery presents
'More Moons Than Suns'
Orla Kane
16th January - 2nd February 2025
72 Brixton Road, Oval SW9 6BH
Gallery opening hours: Wed - Sun | 11am - 6pm
SATURDAY BREAKFAST TOUR
with Orla Kane and Ocki at Blue Shop Gallery
Saturday 18th January 11-12.30 | Join us for a gallery tour
Orla Kane
Orla Kane (b.1999) is a Scottish artist based in Glasgow. She graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2021 before attending the Royal Drawing School's Intensive Term in 2022. Recent solo show's include Star Face, Boardroom Committee Room, Glasgow, 2023 and Daisy Chains, Stallan-Brand, Glasgow, 2022 as well as being selected for 130 Years of Scottish Society of Artist's Annual Show at the Royal Scottish Academy, 2022-23. Orla Kane’s first solo show ‘Fields Adrift’ was at Blue Shop Gallery in January 2024. Orla Kane is represented by Blue Shop Gallery.
'More Moons Than Suns'
Orla Kane’s practice is a poetic exchange between landscape and recollection. Her landscape subjects are rooted in the rural Scottish Borders where she spent her childhood, remembering the expanse of rolling hills and fields through car, train, and bedroom windows. Dizzying journeys clouded by daydreams alongside inherited mythologies shape the narrative of her work.
Orla’s recent drawings and paintings lend themselves to this idea of being unfolded. Ideas crumpled in pockets and found months after, remnants of the everyday rediscovered in new states of minds. Oil paintings reworked over several years distil her layered approach to making, cutting into layers of paint to build them back up again in bright glazes. The sometimes skewed boards she paints on mimic the way she hand tears paper for her drawing practice, these forms lend themselves to presenting as windows into fast moving, changing landscapes.
Her use of motifs, specifically the flower, is unfolded across these new works on paper and boards into more whimsical forms, merging into the land and disrupted by trees and weather. All of her landscapes are witnessed by moons and suns. The ‘moon’, the namesake of the show ‘More Moons Than Suns’ is not only a reference to the piercing orbs present in her works but alludes to Orla’s approach to her practice. Intuitively approaching her work on a daily basis and relying on the day’s colours and moods to shape a new layer. Each work is grounded by both day and night, housing both the sun and moon over the course of its lifecycle. Working into the winter months with shorter days and longer nights, naturally the moon appears ever-present in this body of work.
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‘Half-watched Silver Globe’, Orla Kane, 2024, Oil and varnish on board, 17.8 x 12.8cm, 7 x 5.1 inches