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 solo exhibition "thoughts, meals, days" was presented at Ingleby, Edinburgh, in summer 2022. Recent public solo exhibitions include "Kodachroma", Glasgow Project Room (2013); "This Dark Ceiling", Intermedia Gallery, C.C.A, Glasgow (2008); "The Overlooked", Atelier Am Eck, Dusseldorf, Germany (2006); and "New Paintings", 64 Osborne Street, Glasgow (2005). Robertson's group exhibitions include "Once Upon a Time", Flora Fairbairn, The Portman Estate, London (2022); "Faces in the Water", Ingleby at Cromwell Place, South Kensington, London (2021); "Brexit: Mail Art from a Small Island", Sipgate Shows, Düsseldorf, Germany (2019); "Lorna Robertson and Robert MacBryde", Kingsgate Project Space, London (2019); "Psychopathology of Everyday life", Glasgow Project Room (2011); and "Vistas", Glasgow Project Room (2003). The artist was awarded the John Kinross Traveling Scholarship to Florence in 1990 and the Summer Scholarship, Hospitalfield School of Art, Arbroath, Scotland, in 1989.
