Yu Nishimura’s paintings are based on simple motifs. People and animals, portrayed from up close or in wistful poses. City scenery mixed with nature: cars rushing off-road, lonely figures stray in suburban landscapes.

Joanna Piotrowska examines the human condition through performative acts and the construction of multiple ‘social landscapes’ using photography, performance and film.

Stanislava Kovalčíková’s elegiac canvases are studies of painting itself. While drawing on perspectives of the human figure from past and present, she includes direct art historical references and styles in her work. Kovalčíková operates through a tradition of mythology, religion and mysticism.

Rebecca Ackroyd's work toys with the discipline of sculpture, as processes are dissected to their bare bones in a diverse language of making that questions relationships between drawing, abstraction and figuration.

Ian Waelder’s practice explores memory and trace by isolating archival histories and language in relation to his biography, working through the poetics of the accident and the repurposing of the discarded. Waelder’s work unfolds through the mediums of photography, sculpture, sound and installation.

Omari Douglin’s works lead a cast of millennial avatars through narrative associations on canvas planes, mapped like pathways through intuitive desires. Subjects, for Douglin, often arrive in the form of images from the recent past that raise questions about race, form, and identity.

Behrang Karimi’s practice transports to a dreamy dimension of unsettling scenes and slow contemplative moments inhabited by fictional characters. It is ironically visceral, deeply seducing, similar to a late night conversation when language leaves space to the metaphorical.

Paintings by Vera Palme trace a thread between figuration and abstraction. Through painterly gestures ranging from short strokes to large constructive lines, they touch the boundaries of material, time and the existence of painting itself.