Yasmine Robinson

Pythons Fruit-Basket

23 x 18 cm

About:

Yasmine Robinson born in Derry 1994, is a painter currently living in Belfast. Robinson graduated from Chelsea College of Art London with a Distinction in her Master of Fine Art (2018), having previously studied BA in Fine Art Painting at Ulster University, Belfast (2017). In 2017 she was awarded the Frank Bowling Scholarship to support her studies at Chelsea College of Art. 

Robinson has been the recipient of awards including; the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, SIAP General Arts Award (2022), Ingram Collection Prize, Unit 1 Gallery and Workshop, London (2022), Zabludowiz Master-Class, London (2022), Tiffany & Co. Outset Studio Makers Prize, Outset, London (2018) and RDS Visual Arts Award, Dublin (2017). Robinson has exhibited at numerous key galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally, most recently including; ‘Stellatundra’, Sim Smith, London (2023), Frieze Art Fair, Outset Corridor Commission, London (2023), Solo exhibition ‘Potluck’ at Coups Contemporary, Fitzrovia London (2023), ‘Grit Between My Teeth’, Atelier Now, Dublin (2023), ‘Urgencies’, CCA, Derry-Londonderry (2023) 'New Exits', The MAC, Belfast (2023), 'Mutation Station', in labour, Tokyo, Japan (2022), 'Penumbra', F.E McWilliam Gallery, Belfast (2021), 'Absinthe', Collective Ending, London (2019) and 'Young Gods' Charlie Smith Gallery, London (2019). 
 
Chromatic and incantatory in colour, alive with rumblings and vibrations of energy, I want to make and question what painting feels like. I make paintings through synaesthesia of colour and material that evoke memory in the language of abstraction.
 
A magpie of sorts, I collect and restlessly experiment with varied materials and surfaces that find their way into my painting, pushing my work into realms of the tactile. I manipulate these materials in a way that attaches and clings themselves to the stretcher, sometimes bulging, beyond the edges of the frame on the wall. I’m interested in the trickery and trompe-l'œil of using paint combined with material in both physical and illusionary ways. I find that I’m searching for a gesture through different materials and mediums that tropes a visceral experience, to feel with your eyes.