The magic of an art exhibition is that it is like a gig, only you control how long the set lasts. The artist relinquishes control once the artwork is completed, and this is where the audience gets involved: art is an offering to the viewer to be seen as long as the viewer is interested. […]
Edinburgh-based Jonathan Owen (b. 1973) exhibits for the third time at Ingleby Gallery this summer, after solo presentations in 2011 and 2014. Offering admission by appointment, the private Barony Street gallery – a former Glasite Meeting House that housed a divergent Scottish Christian sect during the nineteenth-century – constitutes a space of austere opulence within […]
The Ingleby’s new exhibition of Caroline Walker is a great option for art-lovers who need to get away from their kitchen-table-desk setup, but who also need to find inspiration to continue the toil of working in a pandemic. Walker’s collection depicts women at work – and although the themes of the paintings address significant socio-cultural […]
Ringing a doorbell and being let in by a friendly individual is more of what someone could expect from a hospitable friend than an art gallery. This is New Town’s Ingleby Gallery, recently opened as a celebration of 20 years exhibiting in Edinburgh. Situated on the upper level of the gallery, the anniversary’s companion exhibition […]
A partly uncoiled measuring tape recording the ever-increasing distance between us and our lonely moon. A half-tonne rock rotating counter to Earth’s own axial spin that is the only truly ‘still’ object on the planet. Such are examples of works to be found in the quiet but ambitious Ingleby Gallery’s most recent show Jacob’s Ladder. […]
And per se and returns to the Ingleby Gallery for its twenty-second edition, this time pairing Liliane Tomasko’s ‘some.day’ (2016), already familiar from the previous instalment of this ongoing series, with Howard Hodgkin’s ‘Tide’ (2015-16). As is to be expected from this series the two works prove to be an interesting pair. Both the paintings […]
The Ingleby Gallery’s and per se and exhibition series seeks to directly present and juxtapose the works of various pairs of artists over a twelve month period, with a bi-weekly change to the line-up. For the twentieth instalment, a piece from Turner-prize nominated artist Sean Scully’s ‘Wall of Light’ oeuvre is coupled with ‘Celtic Head […]
The Ingleby Gallery’s endeavour of pairing the works by two artists – some of whom now sit comfortably within the canon of art history – is proving to be a crowd divider. The ultra-minimalist concept, presenting only one or two pieces from two artists in a large room, was conceived as an opportunity to intensely […]