What’s in a portrait? A portrayal of the self. A captured depiction of a particular persona. But our identity is not a still-life – and far from a fixture. As we enfold throughout our lives, the person we become radically evolves. But these versions and vicissitudes of the self also simultaneously exist and cohabit within one body.

There is also another undercurrent: how connections become more distant in our digitised world. Are we merely feigning it? Hands fall short of each other; whispers go unheard.

Luminous and liminal, dislocated, and embodied, the black female body and its sexuality are explored and engendered, straining between conformity and divergence…

The works are so hyperrealist, their juices might drip through the canvas at any moment, with a thickness of flesh highlighted by the light play of coloured chiaroscuro.

His choice of acrylic – known for its granular texture – forms peaks and troughs, building indelible depths to his landscapes. It demands an intensity of engagement from his observers. As a result, we step into worlds of bewildering synaesthesia prompted by the exhibition title.

Feminine and weighted, objects and figures appear alive in liminal settings between magic and the mundane, inside, and outside. Playing with the dimensionalities of the body and the home, the curated works speak to whispered and underground conversations of esoteric tradition.

Under the artist’s loving gaze, Black skin itself becomes the subject of the collection, questioning the traditional parameters of portraiture…

Adam Cruces interrogates the slippage between the absurd and the everyday by staging total environments in which displaced entities appear as interlopers...

The artists studied together at The Royal Academy Schools and will come together for International Women’s Day to exhibit a selection of paintings...

Featuring photographs taken in London, Venice and Tokyo, Ascension explores the hidden territory of the mind and the heart...