Finn Robinson (b.2000, Inverness) creates figurative paintings and drawings which process, reflect upon, and extend his lived reality. His works are intrinsically linked to his past experiences and explore the tension between historical imagery and contemporary identity, often reworking canonical paintings to reveal new, queered narratives teetering on the edge of our reality. Through an evolving material language - layering acrylics, oils, pastels, and coloured pencils - Finn creates surfaces that reward extended looking, inviting viewers into tactile, symbolic spaces. His work balances clarity and ambiguity, realism and dreamlike figuration, often incorporating personal motifs and trompe-l'œil devices to collapse inner and outer worlds. What emerges is a hybrid practice rooted in love for the act of painting, but acutely aware of its historical, contemporary, and conceptual implications.
Finn graduated in 2022 from the Glasgow School of Art with a First-Class Honours Degree in Painting and Printmaking. He was awarded the SaltSpace Graduate Residency Award and selected for the RSA New Contemporaries 2024.
Since graduating, Finn has exhibited across the UK - including with BWG Gallery, London, SaltSpace, Glasgow, the RSA, Edinburgh, and at the SSA, Edinburgh - and has regularly sold his work internationally. In 2023, he was shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries, in 2024, he returned to the Glasgow School of Art to study on their MFA course, and most recently, he was longlisted for the 2025 Cass Art Prize.
