Creating Wonder During a Youth Portrait Experience

In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction intersect in various methods, however all share a level of sensitivity to the short lived: the overlooked image, the half-remembered place, the unstable border between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a peaceful but insistent meditation on how meaning collects in regular life.

Taken together, rendered in her distinctive painterly design, these retellings of easily-forgotten minutes show how an ordinary life, when analyzed 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 fact into question by breaking down, recontextualising and duplicating images. Stabilizing systematic accuracy with a distinctly human, necessarily imperfect visual sensibility, his paintings are easy going abstractions for the digital age.Luke Rudolf Fizzog 4, 2025 Jo Berry's airbrushed paintings offer physical types to images that we typically see through a screen andquickly forget, such as stock pictures and ReCAPTCHAs. To me, her distinctive language hazy, distorted, subtly upsetting reflects the alienation and dissociation inherent in a world filled with imagery 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 long-term. Emile Kees Handstand, 2023 Jo Hummel's minimalist abstractions have a specific ahistorical quality; they link numerous histories of material experimentation and production from all over the world within a special visual language. They position the audience within landscapes that feel endless with a low mist hanging over the horizon. Though unfamiliar, these images are deeply serene, welcoming you to delight 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 showing the carriage's interior over the passing landscape; a barely-visible car hidden by an ochre-yellow drape seem deliberately mystical. They make me believe about the simultaneous absurdity and beauty of the world in front of me, considering familiar scenes through an unfamiliar lens. Bianca MacCall Continuous 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 genuine time. The unclear, unpredictable nature of his work is what makes me keep going back to it.Henry Ward Bethany III, 2023.