TWO PERSON EXHIBITION - CATE INGLIS AND LESLEY MCLAREN

11 September - 9 October 2022

CATE INGLIS SSA

Graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 1999, Inglis’ intricate work has received multiple prestigious awards and plaudits.

Her practice is concerned with the layers and the structure of the urban landscape: the transience of the built environment in a relentless process of growth and change. The paintings are each a moment in time of a particular place, as the buildings succumb to weathering, neglect and renewal. She sees buildings as a reflection of a population. Her work invites questions about how society measures its failures and successes, the things we accept and reject in our environment and our response to familiarity and recognition.

The paintings focus on streets in everyday life, anonymous yet familiar. She is drawn to the mundane and the overlooked... the unnoticed details in a patchwork of grand houses, industrial wastelands, concrete offices and shiny new flats that fill the streets of our cities. She is drawn in by the illusion of permanence that we create for ourselves and the fragile nature of the recognisable city.