Orla Kane, ‘Reservoir (Escape plan)’, 2025, 20.5 x 25.5 x 2cm, Oil on cradled board, Framed in beech
Blue Shop Gallery presents
Orla Kane
'Landslides'
4th - 28th March 2026
PV Drinks Wednesday 4th March 6-8pm
72 Brixton Road, Oval SW9 6BH
Gallery opening hours: Thu - Sat | 12pm - 5pm
ARTIST TALK | Orla Kane in conversation with Ocki, BSG Director
Saturday 7th March 12-1pm
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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 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.
Kane’s practice is a poetic exchange between landscape and recollection. Unfolded memories are re-contextualised by everyday moments morphing into psychedelic iterations on colour, time and place. Working across various surfaces, compositions are built up slowly from loosely weaved grids, lines glide and scratch into the surface, defining shapes that over time resemble landscapes. These landscapes are inhabited by a collection of motifs, whimsical forms of suns, moons and flowers dance across her compositions and collapse into ephemera, their shadows erupting and merging into landforms or bodies of water. 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
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.
These paintings are complemented by a series of drawings made between 2024 - 2026. The works point to the start of Kane’s fascination with unfolding the landscape. Her usual dreamscapes are divided by weather and visible cuts on the paper that allude to the sense of unravelling that is apparent in Landslides.
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