Inga Dalrymple’s practice explores painting and drawing as an ongoing dialogue between material, gesture, and perception. Inga is drawn to the ways paint can hold fleeting impressions, translating movement, memory, and sensation into layered surfaces. Colour, line, and composition serve as anchors, structuring spaces where abstraction and reference shift in and out of focus.

Inspired by nature and the emotional landscapes it evokes, Inga works with the tension between control and spontaneity. Forms emerge and dissolve, revealing the traces of decision-making and revision. The process itself - layering, erasing, reconfiguring - becomes a record of time, a way of thinking through painting.

Gesture is central to this exploration, not only as a mark or movement but as a container for emotion, memory, and perception of place. to her, a painted gesture is also a thinking gesture: each mark holds a decision, hesitation, or impulse, even as it emerges intuitively. In working with these moments, Inga negotiates a gesture’s impact, allowing the surface to guide the unfolding of the image.

In this way, thoughts take shape as fluid, shifting forms, mirroring their transient and layered nature. The act of making becomes a means of exploring how thoughts appear, overlap, and fade - some persistent, others ephemeral. Through transparency, repetition, and density, Inga seeks to evoke the intangible rhythm of cognition, where ideas surface, dissolve, and re-emerge.

Ultimately, Inga seeks to extend the language of materials, questioning their possibilities while embracing their limitations. Each work invites the viewer to engage with its surface, to navigate its rhythms and pauses, and to experience the act of looking as a form of participation.

Inga acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands where she lives and works and pays her respect to Elders past, present and emerging.