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In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction converge in various methods, however all share a sensitivity to the short lived: the neglected image, the half-remembered place, the unstable limit in between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a peaceful but insistent meditation on how suggesting builds up in normal life.
Expert Secrets for Whimsical Lighting in Studio PortraitsTaken together, rendered in her unique painterly style, these retellings of easily-forgotten moments demonstrate how a regular life, when taken a look at from a certain perspective, begins to radiate a palpable sense of significance.Rosemary Burn Bowl of cherries, 2025 Mona Sultan's photocollages explain the fragmentary nature of memory and significance, calling photographic fact into question by breaking down, recontextualising and repeating images. Balancing methodical precision with a definitely human, always imperfect visual sensibility, his paintings are easy going abstractions for the digital age.Luke Rudolf Fizzog 4, 2025 Jo Berry's airbrushed paintings provide physical kinds to images that we generally see via a screen andquickly forget, such as stock photographs and ReCAPTCHAs. To me, her distinct language hazy, distorted, subtly disturbing shows the alienation and dissociation intrinsic in a world saturated with images that appears to appear and vanish ever-more quickly. A shadow, a handstand, a sheer curtain draped over a houseplant: by photographing such things, he provides a second life in which they end up being permanent. Emile Kees Handstand, 2023 Jo Hummel's minimalist abstractions have a specific ahistorical quality; they connect several histories of material experimentation and production from around the world within a distinct visual language. They situate the viewer within landscapes that feel endless with a low mist hanging over the horizon. Unknown, these images are deeply peaceful, welcoming you to revel in the simple satisfaction of a perpetually twilit, pastoral world.Llus-Carles Peric Cap a La Calma, 2014 The scenes that Bianca MacCall paints a train window showing the carriage's interior over the passing landscape; a barely-visible cars and truck concealed by an ochre-yellow curtain appear deliberately mysterious. They make me think about the synchronised absurdity and charm of the world in front of me, considering familiar scenes through an unfamiliar lens. Bianca MacCall Perpetual Motion, 2023 Henry Ward's painting practice is ever-shifting. If you stand in front of one of his paintings for long enough, you may see it alter in real time. The unsettled, unforeseeable nature of his work is what makes me keep returning to it.Henry Ward Bethany III, 2023.
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