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Mia Kokkoni

MIA KOKKONI

INSTALMENTS: Mia Kokkoni Ingleby 6–24 August 2025 Edinburgh
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Mia Kokkoni was born in Greece and studied at Glasgow School of Art, where she has continued to live since graduating in 2022. Mia’s paintings connect to a world of storytelling that suggests folk tales and a kind of wistful nostalgia. Painted drily in muted tones, the paintings have an ambiguous quality—they are immediately recognisable and yet also otherworldly. A shuffling cast of characters (solitary women, dancing girls, figures leading horses) simultaneously seem to belong within the paintings and yet question how they got there.

The landscape she depicts is a hybrid of Kokkoni’s immediate experience. Fuelled by the rolling hills and clouds of her adopted Scottish home and yet peppered by clues of her past in the form of a Cypriot tree or Mediterranean flora and fauna. Her paintings describe an an imaginary land—but one that is rooted in Scottishness.

This conjured place suggests a kind of contradictory Celtic dreamscape with an unreliable sense of time and place, somehow heightened by the almost antique and slightly wonky nature of her home-made wooden frames. And yet, for all the apparent idiosyncrasy of her subject matter, Kokkoni’s paintings themselves are wholly authentic objects, marked by a truthful touch and a totally honest approach to picture making.

Mia Kokkoni’s Instalment will open for the 2025 Edinburgh Art Festival from 6 August.

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About the Artist

Mia Kokkoni was born in Greece and studied at Glasgow School of Art, where she has continued to live since graduating in 2022. Mia’s paintings connect to a world of storytelling that suggests folk tales and a kind of wistful nostalgia. Painted drily in muted tones, the paintings have an ambiguous quality – they are immediately recognisable and yet also otherworldly. A shuffling cast of characters (solitary women, dancing girls, figures leading horses) simultaneously seem to belong within the paintings and yet question how they got there.

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GROUP EXHIBITION Songs Of Innocence & Experience Part Ii Ingleby 20 June–5 September 2026 Edinburgh
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Founded in 1998, Ingleby maintains an ambitious program of exhibitions and off-site projects by established and emerging artists. Over the past 14 years, it has secured a reputation as one of the country’s leading private galleries, renowned for the quality of its exhibitions and publications. The gallery represents artists of international standing, whilst also introducing and supporting artists at earlier stages in their career. We are pleased to advise public, private and corporate clients about buying art, and in starting, building and maintaining collections.

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33 Barony Street
Edinburgh
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Edinburgh 33 Barony Street
Ingleby contemporary art gallery in Edinburgh United Kingdom
Ingleby
33 Barony Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
+44 131 556 4441
http://www.inglebygallery.com

Opening hours
Wed - Sat, 11am - 5pm
And by appointment
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