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Two Lighthouses at Daytime
Alex Treskman
Changeling, Spectre, Sister, Shadow
Isla Jones
Lovers in the Grass (Just Friends)
Thomas Houlihan
Exquisite Corpse, Cast Courts
Sasha Alfillé
trust fall
Arun Dodds
Pear Tree Island
Lucy Bruce-Gardner
Mask
Edward Quamina
on we go...
Niki Tse
View from my corner at Regency Cafe
Lena Yokoyama
Panic no. 2
Grace Bolton
Two Lighthouses at Daytime
Alex Treskman
Pencil and coloured pencil on paper, 25.5 × 20cm, 2025
Changeling, Spectre, Sister, Shadow
Isla Jones
Pencil and coloured pencil on paper, 55 x 42cm, 2025
Lovers in the Grass (Just Friends)
Thomas Houlihan
Coloured pencil on paper, 12.5 × 16cm, 2025
Exquisite Corpse, Cast Courts
Sasha Alfillé
Compressed charcoal and paper, 150 x 60 cm, 2025
trust fall
Arun Dodds
Ball point pen on paper, 33 × 26.5cm, 2025
Pear Tree Island
Lucy Bruce-Gardner
Oil pastel on card, 41 x 30.5cm, 2025
Mask
Edward Quamina
Monotype and collage on paper, 25 × 33cm, 2025
on we go...
Niki Tse
Pencil on paper, 59.4 × 84.1cm, 2025
View from my corner at Regency Cafe
Lena Yokoyama
Monotype on paper, 67.5 × 44cm, 2025
Panic no. 2
Grace Bolton
Graphite on Paper, 14.8 × 21cm, 2025
Drawing is an alchemic language. My emotions force the drawing out of my hand—this explains why so many of my drawings are repeated images. It’s not because I draw the same thing, but the same moment wants to be redrawn. And that’s the beautiful thing about drawing: it’s intimate, like handwriting, and the dialogue is between the paper and me.”
Tracey Emin
Because you Left – I Held on, 2024. Acrylic on lithographic background, 65 x 83.8cm.
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