Evie Robinson

Evie Robinson (b.2004, London) is based in Glasgow, receiving her BA in Painting & Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art in 2025. She has previously studied at Kingston School of Art in London, completing a Foundation Diploma in Art.

As an artist, my practice centres around my racial identity by merging themes of culture, migration, memory, and storytelling. I use painting and printmaking to explore representations of West African communities. My paintings combine surreal figures, patterned backdrops, materials and chaotic greenery, blurring the boundaries between cultural histories and memory. Here, playful, dreamlike worlds are formed that exist somewhere between past and present. My practice is an evolving process of sharing stories, of real and imagined West African histories.

Narratives fuel my work. Currently, I have been reading Yoruba folklore and creating oil pastel drawings inspired by these stories, combining and reworking elements from multiple drawings to develop references for my oil paintings. I mark the canvas through layered painterly techniques between areas of open space to evoke the instability of memory and reconstruction within my process of ‘Fictioning’, allowing the viewer to peer through the gaps within these constructed narratives. Executed in a distinctive, vibrant colour palette, with fluorescent-coloured grounds of pink, yellow and purple to bring depth to the surfaces of my marks, reanimating these historical narratives through a contemporary language. Through this, I revive these stories, transforming them into celebratory pieces that invite viewers today to engage with them in a new light

Ultimately, I aim to create immersive, otherworldly, anachronistic spaces that invite viewers to experience my narrative wholly, transporting them into the setting of a Nigerian Community. Although my work holds historical context, it does not seek answers; instead, it invites the viewer into an imagined space where they can interpret and learn what they believe they see.