Helen Beard: desire changes perspective
Saturated colours, tightly framed bodies, and images suspended between figuration and abstraction. Helen Beard uses painting to place female desire at the centre of the image, turning eroticism into a question of perspective, freedom, and representation.
Becky Tucker: what if the future looked like an archaeological artefact?
Pale creatures, impossible reptiles, armour, faces emerging from knees and ceramics that could be a hundred or three thousand years old. Becky Tucker creates objects deliberately difficult to place in time, bringing archaeology, mythology, horror and science fiction together. But if someone were to discover the remains of our civilisation one day, how much would they really understand about us?
Ben Crase: what happens when the cowboy no longer has to be tough?
Pink hats, saloons, bears, big cats, chandeliers and men who look like brothers. Ben Crase takes one of the most enduring symbols of the American imagination—the cowboy—and moves him away from conquest, toughness and solitude to explore friendship, vulnerability and belonging. But how much can a myth change when we finally allow its men to be gentle?
Bobbi Essers: friendship deserves a large painting
Embraces, hands, clothes, cars, and fragments of nights spent together. Bobbi Essers transforms analogue photographs of her friends into large-scale paintings in which faces often disappear. What remains at the centre is something art has depicted less often than we might think: the way friendship helps construct who we are.
Vivian Greven: the body in the age of perfect images
Bodies polished like marble, flawless skin, touching hands, and figures suspended between classical sculpture and digital avatars. Vivian Greven uses painting to explore a contemporary contradiction: we have never seen so many images of the body, but does seeing still mean sensing its presence?
FeaturedOh de Laval: desire before judgement
Distorted bodies, Venetian pink, sex, humour, and sudden eruptions of violence. Oh de Laval creates apparently playful scenes to explore desire, morality, and human behaviour. But who really decides where pleasure ends and transgression begins?
FeaturedHai-Hsin Huang: absurdity is already all around us
Disastrous weddings, art fairs, gyms, museums, unfamiliar dogs, and holiday crowds. Hai-Hsin Huang observes everyday life and transforms it into a slightly unsettling comedy, where anxiety, conformity, and vulnerability emerge beneath bright colours.
FeaturedGori Mora: how close are we when a screen stands between us?
Bodies, mirrors, private rooms, and surfaces that reflect the viewer. Gori Mora uses painting to explore desire, queer identity, and relationships in a world where meeting has become easier, but genuine closeness has not necessarily followed.
FeaturedElla Bril: painting when your time is no longer yours alone
Motherhood changed the subjects of Ella Bril’s paintings, but more importantly the conditions under which they are made. Motherhood: Luminous Origins begins with bodies, sleepless nights, and acts of care to open a broader question: what happens to the figure of the artist when making art can no longer be separated from the rest of life?
FeaturedGaHee Park: what happens when no one is looking
Solitary women, cocktails, fish, windows, lovers, and presences that seem to emerge from dreams. GaHee Park creates paintings suspended between desire and unease, where private life is never completely protected from the gaze.
FeaturedGeoffroy Pithon: what happens when painting leaves the frame?
Paper, pigments, screenprinting, fluorescent colours, and monumental installations. Geoffroy Pithon moves between painting and graphic design, creating images designed not only to be seen, but to become part of the space around them.
FeaturedDing Shilun: painting the present as a personal mythology
Manga, Chinese folklore, Goya, fashion, cinema, and pop culture coexist in Ding Shilun’s large-scale paintings. Born in Guangzhou and working between China and London, the artist transforms the confusion of contemporary life into personal fables suspended between seduction and unease.