Capturing Magic During a Youth Portrait Experience

In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction converge in various ways, however all share a level of sensitivity to the fleeting: the neglected image, the half-remembered location, the unstable limit between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a peaceful however insistent meditation on how implying builds up in common life.

Taken together, rendered in her unique painterly design, these retellings of easily-forgotten moments show how an ordinary life, when taken a look at from a certain point of view, starts to radiate a palpable sense of significance.Rosemary Burn Bowl of cherries, 2025 Mona Sultan's photocollages describe the fragmentary nature of memory and significance, calling photographic reality into concern by breaking down, recontextualising and duplicating images. Stabilizing organized precision with a definitely human, always imperfect visual perceptiveness, his paintings are easy going abstractions for the digital age.Luke Rudolf Fizzog 4, 2025 Jo Berry's airbrushed paintings offer physical kinds to images that we usually see by means of a screen andrapidly forget, such as stock photographs and ReCAPTCHAs. To me, her distinctive language hazy, distorted, discreetly upsetting reflects the alienation and dissociation fundamental in a world saturated with images that seems to appear and disappear ever-more quickly. A shadow, a handstand, a sheer drape draped over a houseplant: by photographing such things, he provides a 2nd life in which they become permanent. Emile Kees Handstand, 2023 Jo Hummel's minimalist abstractions have a particular ahistorical quality; they link several histories of product experimentation and development from all over the world within an unique visual language. They locate the audience within landscapes that feel endless with a low mist hanging over the horizon. Unknown, these images are deeply serene, welcoming you to revel in the simple enjoyments of a perpetually twilit, pastoral world.Llus-Carles Peric Cap a La Calma, 2014 The scenes that Bianca MacCall paints a train window reflecting the carriage's interior over the passing landscape; a barely-visible automobile concealed by an ochre-yellow curtain appear deliberately mystical. They make me believe about the synchronised absurdity and appeal of the world in front of me, thinking about familiar scenes through an unfamiliar lens. Bianca MacCall Continuous Movement, 2023 Henry Ward's painting practice is ever-shifting. In reality, if you stand in front of one of his paintings for long enough, you might see it change in real time. The unclear, unpredictable nature of his work is what makes me keep returning to it.Henry Ward Bethany III, 2023.