“I want to be the one to walk in the sun”

An abstract painting featuring a large smiling sun with a human face, blue eyes, red lips, and sun rays in black and yellow. Surrounding the sun are colorful elements including a unicorn, hearts, and various text bubbles with words like 'Virtutis' and 'Gloria.' The background is pink with decorative patterns and floral designs.

Steven E Robertson is a Glasgow based artist whose figurative drawings and oil paintings explore queer identity through themes of longing, nostalgia and self worth, balancing humour, irreverence and melancholy, his work draws on memory, borrowed lyrics and staged scenarios to create a personal visual language shaped by vulnerability, defiance and self recognition.

"Ultimately, the paintings are acts of recognition and attempt to understand how love, loss, faith, shame, pleasure, and resilience can occupy the same space."

A colorful mural featuring a masculine face with a stern expression, a gold cross, a playing card with a woman and hearts, a barred prison cell, a yellow outline of a woman with the words 'Don't Speak,' a woman with blue hair, a pink flower, and power lines in the background.

“you better let somebody love you before its too late”

“and before you break my heart in two”

An abstract painting with text and colorful shapes. The text says 'TEN' at the top left, '££' below it, and 'OYSTER' along the left side. The right side features yellow geometric shapes, including grids and arches, with a prominent pink tongue and lips at the bottom right.

“I’d give my life for one more night ”