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In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction intersect in various ways, however all share a sensitivity to the short lived: the neglected image, the half-remembered location, the unstable limit between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a quiet however insistent meditation on how implying accumulates in ordinary 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 perspective, 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 truth into concern by breaking down, recontextualising and duplicating images. Balancing methodical 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 types to images that we typically see through a screen andquickly forget, such as stock photographs and ReCAPTCHAs. To me, her distinctive language hazy, distorted, subtly unsettling reflects the alienation and dissociation intrinsic in a world saturated with imagery that seems to appear and vanish ever-more quickly. A shadow, a handstand, a sheer curtain draped over a houseplant: by photographing such things, he gives them a second life in which they end up being long-term. Emile Kees Handstand, 2023 Jo Hummel's minimalist abstractions have a certain ahistorical quality; they link numerous histories of material experimentation and creation from all over the world within a distinct visual language. They situate the viewer within landscapes that feel limitless with a low mist hanging over the horizon. Though unknown, these images are deeply peaceful, welcoming you to savor the basic 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 hidden by an ochre-yellow drape appear intentionally mysterious. They make me believe about the simultaneous absurdity and charm of the world in front of me, thinking about familiar scenes through an unknown lens. Bianca MacCall Perpetual Motion, 2023 Henry Ward's painting practice is ever-shifting. In fact, if you stand in front of among his paintings for long enough, you might see it alter in genuine time. The unsettled, unforeseeable nature of his work is what makes me keep returning to it.Henry Ward Bethany III, 2023.