March 2026

Orla Kane
‘Landslides’

4th - 28th March 2026

Orla Kane 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 shows include More Moons Than Suns, 2025 and Fields Adrift, 2024 at Blue Shop Gallery, London, Star Face, 2023, Boardroom Committee Room, Glasgow and Daisy Chains, 2022, Stallan-Brand, Glasgow. Orla Kane is represented by Blue Shop Gallery.

Orla Kane's new body of work, Landslides, follows a series of unstable landscapes. Gravity is present throughout, pulling the sky down and flooding the landscape. Lines migrate into dots, like waking up from a dream, blurry eyes opening to inky and chalky moments. Familiar glowing pastel hues are diffracted through deeper, moodier colours that are rooted below the surface. 

Landslides is an exploration into surface and material. The rich surfaces are dense with marks that have been built up and then washed and scraped away leaving remnants of structures and point to moments of collapse, giving into the materials whim. Working across larger panels for the first time, Kane’s intricate application of paint is scaled up, these larger effervescent impressions create lines of movement; windows into falling. The abundance of painterly marks dance across the compositions appearing as weather, pulling and pushing the landscapes in and out of focus. Inflections on the surface are composed of oil paint suspended in over-saturated mixes of marble dust, creating hazy splinters of light pouring down the paintings. Contrasting the chalky splodges, oil is poured across the painting and dried into rills, rippling across the surface, forming glossy pools of water and light. 

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Blue Shop Gallery | 72 Brixton Road, Oval