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In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction converge in different ways, but all share a sensitivity to the short lived: the neglected image, the half-remembered place, the unsteady limit between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a quiet but insistent meditation on how meaning collects in regular life.

Taken together, rendered in her distinct painterly design, these retellings of easily-forgotten minutes demonstrate how a normal life, when taken a look at from a certain perspective, starts 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 fact into concern by breaking down, recontextualising and repeating images. Stabilizing methodical precision with a noticeably human, necessarily imperfect visual sensibility, his paintings are lighthearted abstractions for the digital age.Luke Rudolf Fizzog 4, 2025 Jo Berry's airbrushed paintings provide physical kinds to images that we normally see through a screen andquickly forget, such as stock photos and ReCAPTCHAs. To me, her unique language hazy, misshaped, subtly 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 long-term. Emile Kees Handstand, 2023 Jo Hummel's minimalist abstractions have a particular ahistorical quality; they connect numerous histories of material experimentation and development from around the world within a distinct visual language. They locate the viewer within landscapes that feel limitless with a low mist hanging over the horizon. Unknown, these images are deeply tranquil, inviting you to revel in the easy enjoyments of a constantly 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 drape seem intentionally mysterious. They make me think about the synchronised absurdity and charm of the world in front of me, thinking about familiar scenes through an unknown lens. Bianca MacCall Perpetual Movement, 2023 Henry Ward's painting practice is ever-shifting. In fact, if you stand in front of among his paintings for long enough, you may see it alter in real time. The unclear, unpredictable nature of his work is what makes me keep returning to it.Henry Ward Bethany III, 2023.