The Importance of Archival Portraits for Future Generations

In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction converge in different methods, but all share a level of sensitivity to the fleeting: the neglected image, the half-remembered place, the unsteady limit in between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a peaceful but insistent meditation on how indicating accumulates in ordinary life.

Taken together, rendered in her distinct painterly style, these retellings of easily-forgotten minutes demonstrate how a regular life, when analyzed from a certain point of view, begins to radiate a palpable sense of significance.Rosemary Burn Bowl of cherries, 2025 Mona Sultan's photocollages describe the fragmentary nature of memory and meaning, calling photographic truth into question by breaking down, recontextualising and repeating images. Balancing methodical precision with a distinctly human, always imperfect visual sensibility, his paintings are easy going abstractions for the digital age.Luke Rudolf Fizzog 4, 2025 Jo Berry's airbrushed paintings give physical forms to images that we generally see via a screen andrapidly forget, such as stock photographs and ReCAPTCHAs. To me, her distinct language hazy, misshaped, discreetly 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 offers them a second life in which they become permanent. Emile Kees Handstand, 2023 Jo Hummel's minimalist abstractions have a certain ahistorical quality; they link numerous histories of product experimentation and production from worldwide within an unique visual language. They situate the viewer within landscapes that feel limitless with a low mist hanging over the horizon. Unfamiliar, these images are deeply peaceful, inviting you to revel in the basic pleasures 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 car concealed by an ochre-yellow curtain seem deliberately strange. They make me think about the synchronised absurdity and appeal 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 may see it alter in genuine time. The unclear, unpredictable nature of his work is what makes me keep returning to it.Henry Ward Bethany III, 2023.