Huge thanks to everyone who came along to the exclusive opening night of this year’s BREAKOUTS – artists, their family and friends, gallery patrons and all other lovely visitors. What a fantastic night it was to kick off this headline gallery exhibition.
We’re featuring 9 artists this year. Lets take a look at who is on the walls…
Ocean Anton | Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
Ocean Anton is a London-born artist, living and working in Scotland. Her works explore colour, pattern and line, as well as (more recently) interpreting recurring personal, social, and cultural eelings/attitudes.
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Vittoria Ginevri | Edinburgh College of Art
Italian born, Edinburgh based artist Vittoria Ginevri’s work is inspired by light, nostalgia and memories of a childhood spent in Southern Italy. Her practice explores moments of stillness and reflection. Through carefully curated bodies of work, she seeks to slow down time, capturing the atmosphere and emotional resonance of places, memories, and fleeting experiences.
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Finley Yates | Edinburgh College of Art
Finley Yates is an artist from South Ayrshire, living and working in Edinburgh. His current body of work, A Picture of Wholeness, uses painting as a time-capsule. Within the series, Finley’s painting becomes a tool for collation and illumination, dredging a deep trench of interests spanning Contemporary Literature and Music, Science-Fiction, and Marine life.
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Maj Olsson Gendt | Glasgow School of Art
Maj Olsson Gendt is a chemist of paint. She studies the behaviours and structures of concentrated and diluted acrylic washes, brushwork, pencil drawings and primers as they react with one another. Her process explores the possibilities and limitations of paint, allowing the material to behave according to its own qualities. In her work, the canvas is considered an object in itself, with the belief that the image is already there, yet to be revealed, letting the surface, structure, and physicality shape the work.
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Connor Draycott | Glasgow School of Art
Through an imagined alter ego, Glasgow based artist Connor Draycott explores the blurred boundaries between reality and fiction, drawing on obsessive thoughts, paranoia, folklore, and daydreams to question how we construct and understand the world around us.
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Maud Wheldon-Posner | Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow based artist Maud Wheldon-Posner uses painting to explore tension, perception, and the blurred boundary between reality and fiction. Drawing on personal experience alongside imagery sourced from social media, film, and news media, Maud creates unsettling scenes that appear suspended in moments of anticipation. Through fragmentation, concealment, and distortion, their work challenges familiar ways of looking, inviting viewers to question what is seen, hidden, and imagined.
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Jess Simpson | Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
Scottish artist Jess Simpson’s work explores the complex relationship between lived experience and the ways places are remembered over time. Through painting and printmaking, her work examines the shifting space between nostalgia and reality, reflecting on the changing landscape of Scotland’s New Towns and the impact these environments have on personal identity. Rich with recurring motifs, layered imagery, and references to public art, Jess’ paintings invite viewers to consider their own connections to home, memory, and the stories embedded within familiar places.
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Amy Blackbourne | Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow based, Northen Irish artist Amy Blackbourne’s practice draws from landscapes, coastlines, and urban environments where movement, memory, and mystery intersect.
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Flossie Haskins | Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh based, Dorset born artist Flossie Haskins practice centres on illustration. Working primarily with ink on paper, Flossie draws inspiration from fashion runways and the pages of Vogue, capturing the elegance, character, and theatricality of contemporary fashion.
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The exhibition is open 11 to 3pm all next weekend – Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of July, alongside a slightly adjusted summer schedule. Get in touch or check out the website and our hours on google for accurate timings. Or please contact us to arrange a visit. You don’t want to miss this one.
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