From Degas at the National Gallery to Medieval Queens at the British Library, these are the fabulous exhibitions not to miss this summer
Phin Jennings, Tatler
July 2024
For her first solo exhibition in London, at Alison Jacques’ new Cork Street space, Glaswegian painter Lorna Robertson plays hide-and-seek with abstraction and figuration. She works layers onto paper and canvas, adorning them with oil paint, watercolour, collage and linseed oil. Though rendered in bright colours, her characters often convey a sense of mystery — one that is intensified by the works’ elliptical titles, such A night of knowing nothing, (2024) a painting containing a large cast of barely-hidden figures.