2025 Poster HOT OFF THE PRESS

Written By steph wilson
oosoom 2025 poster, with pink oosoom logo centred above an abstract painting with a brown background and yellow, green brush strokes encircling pink and red brush strokes, with comfort and disturb hadnwritten in an orange pen over the top.

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The OOSOOM 2025 poster, with the OOSOOM logo in pink centred over an abstract painting with a brown background and yellow, green brush strokes encircling pink and red brush strokes, with ‘Comfort and disturb’ handwritten in orange pen over the top. Below is written; ‘An exhibition of art made by with people experiences of mental health issues. 22 October - 8 November 2025, Wednesday - Sunday, 11am - 6pm, Summerhall, Free. The exhibition presents a wide variety of themes, some may be affecting, thought provoking, everyday and/or awesome. Followed by supporting organisation logos in black, including; Caps Independent Advocacy, iThrive Edinburgh, People’s Postcode Lottery Trust, Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership, Mental Health Foundation and Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival.] 

 

Hot off the press

Festival posters down; 2025 OOSOOM posters up!

The poster plays an important role in in the exhibition. It captures the collective creativity that runs through the project. It’s announcement feels like the start of things coming together. Look out for it appearing out and about, on socials, download it, print it, share it yourself (see below).

Since 2013 all of the OOSOOM posters have been designed by Michael Dawson in close collaboration with the Planning Group.  

This year’s design takes inspiration from this years’ Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival theme ‘Comfort and Disturb’.  

Referencing a famous Cesar A Cruz quote about art as activism, the idea that

“art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”.

It is a simple expression of the power of art both to challenge and to console, often having a transformative effect on people and societies.   

It was with this sentiment that the poster was created.  

  • The encircling shapes, disturbing and contained or embraced and consoled?  

  • The colourful logo and text bringing joyful comfort, or disturbingly unofficial? 

  • The scrappy handwritten note a comforting reminder or disturbing defacement? 

A stack of A3 and A4 OOSOOM 2025 posters is seen on a table with a green mug in the top right hand corner.

[ID: Piles of printed copies of OOSOOM poster, placed on a table, next to an almost empty mug of tea.]

Download your own copy using the buttons below and help us to spread and share the poster anywhere you can!  

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