In the most recent iteration of their INSTALMENTS series, Ingleby presents work by Greek artist Mia Kokkoni.

Mia Kokkoni was born in Greece and studied at Glasgow School of Art, where she has continued to live since graduating in 2022. Kokkoni’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.