Creating Magic During a Youth Portrait Experience

In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction intersect in various ways, however all share a sensitivity to the short lived: the overlooked image, the half-remembered location, the unstable boundary in between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a peaceful however insistent meditation on how implying builds up in regular life.

Taken together, rendered in her distinctive painterly design, these retellings of easily-forgotten minutes show how a regular life, when taken a look at from a particular viewpoint, 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 meaning, calling photographic truth into question by breaking down, recontextualising and duplicating images. Stabilizing methodical accuracy with a distinctly human, necessarily imperfect visual perceptiveness, his paintings are lighthearted abstractions for the digital age.Luke Rudolf Fizzog 4, 2025 Jo Berry's airbrushed paintings offer physical kinds to images that we generally see by means of a screen andquickly forget, such as stock photos and ReCAPTCHAs. To me, her distinctive language hazy, misshaped, discreetly upsetting reflects the alienation and dissociation inherent in a world saturated with images that seems to appear and disappear ever-more rapidly. 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 multiple histories of material experimentation and creation from around the world within a special visual language. They locate the audience within landscapes that feel unlimited with a low mist hanging over the horizon. Though unknown, these images are deeply serene, welcoming you to savor the easy pleasures 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 car hidden by an ochre-yellow drape appear intentionally mysterious. They make me believe about the simultaneous absurdity and appeal of the world in front of me, considering familiar scenes through an unknown lens. Bianca MacCall Perpetual Motion, 2023 Henry Ward's painting practice is ever-shifting. In truth, if you stand in front of one of his paintings for long enough, you may see it change in genuine time. The unclear, unforeseeable nature of his work is what makes me keep going back to it.Henry Ward Bethany III, 2023.