Sofia Mitsola (b. 1992) works primarily with paintings which investigate the female form with ideas surrounding voyeurism, confrontation, and power dynamics. Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Mitsola’s characters take inspiration from ancient Greek and Egyptian sculptures, often depicted as goddesses or mythical creatures. Rendered nude and set against geometric backgrounds charged with energy, the figures address the viewer with their direct gaze, inviting them to look back. 

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"I have loved Sofia’s practice for a long time now, especially how women and women’s sensuality is the focus within the works. They remind me of mythological works by old masters, and more than sensual they are humorous and engrossing. It’s this fun collision of Greek mythology and anime, all while embracing the female gaze. Sofia’s women are powerful, invincible and somehow that energy is shared from the canvas and onto the viewer!"

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@sofiamitsola

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Danish artist Clara Hastrup blends analogue and digital techniques to transform everyday objects, household materials, and lifelike forms. Through inventive experimentation with materials, her work opens up unexpected relationships and imaginative ways of encountering the familiar. Since graduating from the Royal Academy in 2020, Clara has won The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award (2025), and has had numerous solo exhibitions at galleries such as Standpoint Gallery, Folkestone, LAMB, and Quench Gallery. 

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"I love Clara’s works because they are so fun and eccentric. The familiar household items, bright colours, or kooky elements immediately captivate you when you see them and you want to get closer and know what they are about and the mechanics behind them. Animals, machines, images, sounds are all connected together, combined, contrasted, making something new and wonderfully alive, while holding the idea of the butterfly effect at their heart."

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clarahastrup.com 

Karol Palczak (b. 1987, Poland) draws inspiration from folk rituals and the everyday life of his Polish upbringing. Blended with traditional painting conventions, Palczak welds these influences into precise oil studies painted onto sheet metal. Palczak’s hyperrealistic paintings reference quotidian experiences, which - though capturing the familiar - strike a compelling sense of uncanny discordance through their visual tension and anxiety. 

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"I came across Karol Palczak’s work about a year ago, and I’m still not completely familiar with his entire practice. What I can say, though, is that he is clearly interested in observation, and in drawing attention to the details or fragments of a scene that the rest of us mortals seldom pay attention to. His work is not beautiful in a traditional sense; at times, it can even be difficult to stand in front of. And yet, I simply cannot stop looking."

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@karolpalczak

www.karolpalczak.com 

Jem Perucchini (b. 1995) is an Ethiopian artist living and working in Milan. Perucchini converges cross-cultural influences into his paintings, blending visual archetypes from the Renaissance with ancient Greek myths and Ethiopian traditions. His figurative paintings feature distinct richly detailed mottled patterns, adorned throughout the composition to weave together classical iconography with personal narratives. 

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"Jem’s paintings have real soul and depth to them. Not only are the works executed beautifully, but they layer many different elements, like Ethiopian iconography, Byzantine mosaics, Renaissance painting, and classical mythology. You’re in front of this wonderful tension, I think, where the figures feel a bit like icons, saints, something sacred, but also feel everyday, familiar, warm, hospitable…like a neighbour or a friend."

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@jemperucchini

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