THE GRADUATE SHOW
City Walking Framed Size: 105 x 105 cm 105 105
Something Past Framed Size: 105 x 105 cm 105 105
Trumpet Framed Size: 46 x 56 cm 46 56
Dwell Framed Size: 35 x 85 cm 35 85
Trio Framed Size: 35 x 35 cm 35 35
Routine Size: 160 x 160 cm 160 160
I Miss You Still Size: 20 x 20 cm 20 20
Sunday Size: 20 x 20 cm 20 20
Simple Joys Framed Size: 45 x 64 cm 45 64
Let us Linger Framed Size: 45 x 64 cm 45 64
December Framed Size: 55 x 55 cm 55 55
London Cauliflower Framed Size: 35 x 25 cm 35 25
Longer Days Framed Size: 105 x 105 cm 105 105
Echoes of a Catch Framed Size: 155 x 155 cm 155 155
Night Fishing Framed Size: 65 x 65 cm 65 65
In a Silent Way Framed Size: 105 x 105 cm 105 105
Liquid Wings (Arno) Framed Size: 184 x 105 cm 184 105
G Framed Size: 55 x 55 cm 55 55
Amidst Framed Size: 105 x 105 cm 105 105
Drifting Framed Size: 55 x 55 cm 55 55
Night Swimming Framed Size: 95 x 125 cm 95 125
Stardust Framed Size: 65 x 65 cm 65 65
Gatherer Framed Size: 81 x 81 cm 81 81
Fish out of Water Framed Size: 125 x 155 cm 125 155
Opinan III Framed Size: 25 x 20 cm 25 20
Opinan II Framed Size: 25 x 20 cm 25 20
Opinan IV Framed Size: 25 x 20 cm 25 20
Opinan I Framed Size: 25 x 20 cm 25 20
The Quest for the Macintosh Man II Framed Size: 65 x 85 cm 65 85
Sunset over Settled Snow Framed Size: 65 x 45 cm 65 45
Trampled Framed Size: 107 x 156 cm 107 156
Rubble Framed Size: 23 x 85 cm 23 85
North West Corner Framed Size: 25 x 28 cm 25 28
Barrel Roll Framed Size: 28 x 16 cm 28 16
Pools Framed Size: 42 x 29 cm 42 29
Interrupted Framed Size: 43 x 21 cm 43 21
Shelter Framed Size: 21 x 30 cm 21 30
Overcast Framed Size: 30 x 30 cm 30 30
Monument Garden Framed Size: 25 x 20 cm 25 20
Ecstasis I Size: 122 x 152 cm 122 152
Shedding Skins Size: 122 x 152 cm 122 152
We Live In Cages With Open Doors #2 Framed Size: 56 x 78 cm 56 78
See Before Me Words You Should Not Have Written #1 Framed Size: 56 x 78 cm 56 78
We Live in Cages with Open Doors #1 Framed Size: 56 x 78 cm 56 78
Glen Affric Framed Size: 73 x 56 cm 73 56
Underbelly Framed Size: 42 x 59 cm 42 59
Aerial View Framed Size: 56 x 77 cm 56 77
Standing Cube Ring Size: 1 x 2 cm 1 2
Small Brooch Size: 3 x 7 cm 3 7
Sliding Cube Ring Size: 2 x 2 cm 2 2
Large Brooch Size: 3 x 10 cm 3 10
Fold Ring Size: 1 x 4 cm 1 4
Fold Earrings Size: 2 x 2 cm 2 2
Box Earrings Size: 2 x 1 cm 2 1
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'Wonderful' Pendant 0 0
Crochet Vessel Pendant Necklace 0 0
'Wonderful' Pendant 0 0
Crochet Vessel Pendant Necklace 0 0
'Listen' Cup Pendants 0 0
'Listen' Cup Pendant Necklace 0 0
'Home' Flask Necklace 0 0
Impressions No 3 Framed Size: 94 x 97 cm 94 97
Impressions No 2 Framed Size: 29 x 85 cm 29 85
Our first graduate show brings together a standout group of emerging artists from the 2025 degree shows. Artists include Ella Williams, Tom Speedy, Anney White, and Harvey Stapleton, each of whom also received the RSA John Kinross Scholarship, along with VAS winner Mia Coutts and Finlay Trevor, who was selected for the National Portrait Gallery London – Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award (former BP Portrait Award) Exhibiton. The exhibition also includes jewellery by Tina Avery, Rosina Payan Pecorelli, and Emilia Santaella Barreto, and sculpture by Kristel Bodensiek.
ELLA WILLIAMS
Ella Williams is an Edinburgh-based painter and recent graduate of Edinburgh College of Art (2025). Shaped by diaristic and archival processes, her work visualises the ambiguity of memory – revealing how fleeting and fragmented observations, gathered over time, can be reshaped into visual storytelling. Poetic and almost dream-like Ella’s paintings hold the viewer through the potency and symbolism of their imagery and the rhythm of her mark making.
At once spacious and dense with detail, pattern and imagery, Ella’s paintings are composed from sketches, notes, and photographs collected across days, months, and years. Within each work, domestic objects, patterns, planes of colour and shifting light are assembled into compositions that move between abstraction and realism – disparate elements are woven together by palette choices and her use of active and negative space across the canvas.
Ella was selected as an exhibitor for the 2025 RBA Rising Stars Exhibition at the ROSL and was recently awarded the Royal Scottish Academy’s John Kinross Scholarship to carry out a research project in Florence. She has also been selected to exhibit in the RSA New Contemporaries 2026 exhibition.
TOM SPEEDY
Tom Speedy’s work brings together landscape and figurative storytelling to create a tension between the figure and the world it inhabits – where unrelated places and incidents seem to overlap, entwine, and reconfigure.
Working from fleeting memories and everyday observations – often gathered while travelling – Tom begins with sketching and photography before moving into an intuitive and experimental painting process. Figures engaged in acts of leisure such as fishing, rowing, or water polo reappear inside saturated, water-lit worlds that feel both recognisable and other-wordly.
Tom graduated in 2025 from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design with First-Class Honours and has been selected for the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition in Spring 2026. He is a recipient of the RSA John Kinross Scholarship, has been shortlisted for the New Blood Emerging Art Prize, and nominated for both the Freelands Foundation Painting Prize and the WSA Painting Prize. Two of his Degree Show paintings were also exhibited at Unit London during Frieze Week 2025.
FINLAY TREVOR
Finlay Trevor’s painting practice is rooted in the landscape of the North West Highlands of Scotland and explores themes of land, labour, and belonging. Since graduating, he has extended this work across the wider Gairloch area, painting people whose lives are inseparable from the environments they inhabit.
His approach is built through time spent on the land itself, often helping on Red Point farm and allowing relationships to develop through shared work rather than formal sittings. These encounters lead to drawings and studies made on site, later translated into paintings with layered, physical surfaces that hold both observation and lived experience. The works explore pre-industrial life within a post-industrial world, where older ways of working persist alongside contemporary pressure.
Rather than relying on inherited symbolism – particularly the romanticised image of the shepherd -Finlay’s paintings aim for an honest depiction of rural labour, acknowledging beauty and endurance while resisting idealisation. His recent achievements include selection for the National Portrait Gallery London’s Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award (formerly the BP Portrait Award), being shortlisted for the Mall Gallery Crinan Residency, and receiving the Visual Arts Scotland Graduate Showcase Award.
HARVEY STAPLETON
Harvey Stapleton weaves together memory, observation, and imagining through painting, writing, and drawing. His works hold shifting inner worlds where experience stretches, fades, and collides – transforming into environments that feel both intensely personal and strangely autonomous, as if the paintings are making meaning beyond the moment that first produced them.
Through thick application of oil paint, Harvey repeatedly marks and removes layers of surface, allowing texture and atmosphere to build over time. This process produces dense, tactile paintings with a sensory charge—details emerge and disappear as the surface obscures and reveals, creating a sense of strangeness and quiet intensity within the image.
This body of work grew from a two-month period of drawing and writing in response to the tangled streets, courtyards and gardens of Florence, later expanding into painted worlds upon his return. Harvey is a recent Edinburgh College of Art graduate and a recipient of the RSA John Kinross Scholarship.
ANNEY WHITE
Anney White is an Edinburgh-born visual artist based in central Scotland, whose work is rooted in abstraction as a means of exploring emotional and physical boundaries. Her paintings trace the subtle forces shaping inner and outer worlds—especially the ways containment and freedom coexist within the body, within space, and within cultural expectations.
Working primarily with layered acrylics, charcoal and mixed media on canvas and paper, Anney’s process involves building up and scraping back, masking and revealing—methods that mirror the negotiation of boundaries, both literal and psychological. Mark-making shifts between control and release; paint becomes structure, gesture, and question, holding complexity without resolving it.
Anney graduated with First-Class Honours in BA Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (2022–2025). Her recent exhibitions include the DJCAD Degree Show (2025) and the Visual Arts Scotland Biennial at the Royal Scottish Academy. Her awards include the Royal Scottish Academy John Kinross Scholarship (Florence) and The Windows Award supported by Arthur Watson RSA and Fergus Purdie RSA.
ROSINA PAYAN PECORELLI
Rosina Payan Pecorelli is a designer and maker whose work is driven by a fascination with architectural form and repetition. Inspired by structures found in the built environment, she is interested in how the same forms can move between wearable jewellery and static sculptural objects, blurring the lines between body adornment and object-making.
Working primarily in metal, Rosina’s practice is rooted in experimentation and making, with a clear dedication to expanding her technical skills and pushing material possibilities across jewellery and small-scale sculpture.
Rosina graduated with First-Class Honours in BA (Hons) Jewellery and Silversmithing from Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh). Her recent achievements include the Sir Robert Kirk Inches Bursary (2024), Visual Arts Scotland Graduate Shortlist (2025), and the Association of Contemporary Jewellery (ACJ) Space for Innovation Award (2025). She has exhibited widely, including New Designers (London, 2025), DAZZLE at RWS Gallery (London, 2025), Milan Jewellery Week (2025), and Munich Jewellery Week (2025).
TINA AVERY
Tina Avery is a silversmith and jeweller who creates forms in metal with narrative and meaning. Her pieces move between the wearable and the contemplative, sometimes designed to be carried close to the body, and at other times existing as larger functional or reflective objects. A recurring theme in her practice is the idea of containing and being held. Her process often begins with the application of pattern onto metal surfaces, using techniques such as etching, pressing and stamping. This careful groundwork becomes an integral part of the final work, requiring control and attention as the metal is shaped, formed and finished, ensuring the surface language survives through transformation.
For this exhibition, Tina builds on ideas from her 2025 degree collection ‘Vessels For a Journey’, which explored a nurturing emotional journey through being seen, heard, held, celebrated and understood. Tina’s awards include a South Square Trust bursary (2024–25) and Grand First Prize in the British Art Medal Society Student Project (2023). She has exhibited with Visual Arts Scotland Biennial at the RSA (2025) and completed her BA (Hons) degree collection in 2025.
MIA COUTTS
Mia Coutts is a visual artist from the Scottish Highlands, working across painting and printmaking. Her practice explores time and perception through analogue processes, transforming everyday landscapes and testing how memory and place shift when filtered through different lenses. Her work becomes a space where images are altered by repetition, distortion and reconstruction.
Drawing on film photography and drawing, Mia produces images that are divided, layered, and reduced—methods that disrupt the familiar and change how we visually “enter” a landscape. These manipulations create works that feel both grounded in lived environment and slightly displaced from it, revealing how perception itself is shaped by process, distance, and time.
Mia graduated from The Glasgow School of Art (2021–2025), specialising in Painting and Printmaking. Her development includes an exchange at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE) in Budapest, and she has exhibited widely including The Glasgow School of Art Degree Show (2025). She has also been selected for Visual Arts Scotland Graduate Showcase and RSA New Contemporaries, receiving a VAS Graduate Award as a Selected Artist.
KRISTEL BODENSIEK
Kristel Bodensiek, born in Bogotá, Colombia and based in Edinburgh, works across sculpture and material exploration, where the act of making is as significant as the final form. Her practice is shaped by repetition, rhythm, and attentiveness – processes that become meditative through hand-building and casting. Kristel is drawn to materials that embody change: clay for its movement between liquid and solid, bronze for its cycle of liquefaction and solidification, and glass for its shifting balance of fragility and strength—transparency and opacity. Through these transformations, she explores the subconscious and the potential for inner renewal, using ordinary materials to carry profound psychological and emotional charge.