Orla Kane
A limited edition of embroidered artworks made in collaboration with artist, Orla Kane. The pieces are based on two of her recent drawings, using a combination of cotton, wool and viscose threads to create a intricate, layered texture. ‘Flower Channels’ and ‘Pylons’ explore her signature style through thread, interpreting the layers and pencil lines into a unique textile artwork.
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 Fields Adrift, Blue Shop Gallery, London, 2024, 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 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. Working between drawing and painting, her layered works carve out landscapes and patterns. Coloured pencil lines weave together to create tapestries that mimic memories of handmade quilted blankets and patchworked hills marked by electric fence.