Norberto Spina came to painting the long way round, reshaped by the Royal Academy into something spatial and alive. Now, he builds rooms for it, where images resist, and the viewer is quietly pulled in.

Working from a place where memory slips and reforms, Zachary Merle explores fragmented recall shaped by epilepsy. His layered images resist clarity, holding tension between recognition, concealment, and uncertainty.

Michele Fletcher paints where control gives way to something organic. A conversation on forms that branch autonomously, titles that pull toward the body, and the physical cost of the work.

Katarina Caserman paints without fixed reference or fixed outcome. A conversation on instinct, unreliability, and letting each work exist in a continuous state of becoming.

Paula Parole asks viewers to feel into her work rather than decode it. A conversation on patterns over events, the slow return to old canvases, and her debut solo show A Promise Is a Spell.

Told her work was "girly painting," Florine Imo leaned in. She exaggerates, dissects, and reclaims femininity, pulling goddesses and martyrs into the present where myth meets lived reality.

Marco Bizzarri's paintings hold dust as both material and metaphor. Shaped by the Atacama Desert and sharpened by the UK's shifting light, his work sits in the space between what stays and what fades.

For Luke Agada, a mark becomes a body when it carries vulnerability. A conversation on the move from veterinary medicine to painting, memory, uncertainty, and the act of becoming.

Kristy Chan's paintings accumulate like walks do: fragment by fragment, thought by thought. A conversation on the move from Hong Kong to London, and what stays, what gets left behind.

Ella Fleck writes her way into installation. A conversation on scent, sound, fog, and light as language, and building spaces that ask viewers to stay with what can't quite be explained.

For Julian Lombardi, painting isn't a practice he found, it's one he's always had. A conversation on intuition, scale, and The Global Carnival, his ongoing project tracing the post-digital age.

Martin Zvěřina's paintings begin from something concrete and drift toward something else. A conversation on working across multiple canvases, resisting stable style, and trusting slow revelation.

Monsieur Zohore calls his works "visual essays." A conversation on naming as inheritance, paper towels as material, and his KOW exhibition Whether the Weather, where humor meets whiteness as atmosphere.

Kira Streletzki curates from a 1930s Berlin building that shapes every show she mounts. A conversation on trust, emotional resonance, and building a sustainable practice alongside emerging artists.

Qian Zhong paints beauty as resistance, shimmering surfaces that unsettle rather than please. A conversation on fragmented figures, the weight of the gaze, and glamour that conceals as much as it reveals.

Paula Turmina's paintings are full of ants: agents of resistance, quiet disruptors, guides. A conversation on Brazil's Atlantic Forest, working across painting and printmaking, and nature as transformation.

Victoria Gill's Show of Stolen Goods began with a public callout asking people to share what they'd taken from their jobs. A conversation on public interventions, owned objects, and studying at the RA.

Aubrey Higgin founded Chilli to show art outside the white cube. A conversation on staging exhibitions in chicken shops and Japanese restaurants, duo shows as catalysts, and Miami Art Week.

Palmer Gallery trusts artists to interpret each show on their own terms. A conversation with co-founder Will Hainsworth on cross-disciplinary work, and entering the gallery's next phase.

What a space refuses to show interests Gus Monday more than what it reveals. His paintings work quietly within the systems they critique, turning surface and silence into strategy.

Cherry Cheng approaches art through scent, memory, and emotional resonance. A conversation on collecting as a living archive, championing spaces that take risks, and patronage as care.

Sebastián Espejo's subjects choose him, not the other way around. A conversation on painting the same park across seasons, the hills of Viña del Mar, and finding stillness inside daily motion.

For Miguel Alfa, graffiti taught him how to think. A conversation on 24 years with Rio's walls, a palette of memory and affection, and bringing the peripheries into Paço Imperial.

From London to Sidi Bou Said, Selma Feriani builds galleries as sites of dialogue. A conversation on championing MENA artists, her new residency in Tunisia, and reshaping how the region is seen.

For Stevie Chow, a painting truly begins once it leaves the studio. A conversation on inkjet transfers, gestural mark-making, and reimagining the fleeting in-between moments of digital life.

Oliver Herbert treats education as part of curating, not adjacent to it. A conversation on navigating London's art scene, the influence of bell hooks and Paulo Freire, and Imagining Futures at The Showroom.

Horsehair and salvaged wool carry hidden histories in Nicola Turner's sculptures. A conversation on a discarded chair that started it all, and Danse Macabre, her 10-metre installation at Art Basel Unlimited.

For Jenn Ellis, curators deserve studios too. A conversation on founding Apsara Studio, curating across three continents, and carving out space where feeling stands alongside intellect.

From rural Scotland to Glasgow's post-industrial edges, April Lannigan works across painting, sculpture, and installation. A conversation on found relics, raw cotton canvases, and abstraction as method.

Shaped by a childhood across languages and cultures, Isabella Amram paints with curiosity. Her layered surfaces resist closure, offering depth and texture as a counterweight to digital flatness.

For Maria Valeria Biondo, the pace of art and the pace of the art world are not the same. A conversation on DES BAINS, poetic disobedience, and giving emerging artists room to stay uncertain.

South Parade grew out of Isaac Simon's years spent close to artists and studios. A conversation on building a gallery where collaboration, community, and long-term thinking come first.

Camille Brée works with light as material and metaphor. A conversation on installations tucked beneath floorboards and behind walls, and a residency at Gasworks that shifted her whole approach.

Celeste Baracchi, founder of Alma Pearl, on building a gallery rooted in trust, community, and artist publications. A conversation shaped by stops at Hamiltons, Phillips, and Richard Saltoun.

Sofie Nicola Rasmussen collects with instinct and inheritance in equal measure. A conversation on emotional weight, the relational nature of collecting, and what it means to live with art.

Mexico City-based Ángela Leyva paints figures that emerge, dissolve, and return. A conversation on Bilis Negra, working from her father's medical archive, and reaching for what she calls the unpaintable.

Sonya Derviz paints with what she calls soft chaos: dreamlike, shifting, layered. A conversation on Near and Far at Sherbet Green, and the upcoming duo show at Sadie Coles HQ.

Scrubbing the skin, bathing alone, a gesture remembered from a mother's hands. In Heeyoung Noh's paintings, private rituals become excavations of memory, identity, and inherited trauma.

Phoebe Evans' canvases hold memory and present experience in the same frame. A conversation on the resonant phrases that become her titles, and palettes that balance warmth against cool.

Zach paints between the saturated heat of Cape Town and the cool grit of London. A conversation on music as method, the first mark as foundation, and work where memory meets immediate experience.

Born in Vietnam, raised in Canada, now in London, KV Duong's practice is cumulative. A conversation on latex, structural engineering, queer identity, and making space for what sits in between.

Georgina Stone paints in a language she discovered at 13, when words fell short. A dialect of glitter, pigment, and gesture where childhood memory meets adult reckoning, and the work breathes on its own.

Léa Mestres makes design feel light. A conversation on colour, humour, mosaic lamps named after strangers, and building a world that asks you to smile before you judge. Welcome to Mestresville.

Cayetano Sanz de Santamaría keeps his unfinished work like time capsules. A conversation on drawing, Colombian heritage woven through the line, and trusting meaning to arrive later.

Cassandra Bowes, founder of The Social Art Agency, on rethinking how galleries and artists show up online. A conversation on authentic storytelling, founder branding, and the impact of AI on SEO.

José Jun Martínez calls it a "mysticism of open eyes": painting that holds suffering and awe together with love and justice. A conversation on Puerto Rico, London, and everything between.

South Africa-born, London-based, Lucy Robson paints women with a sense of mythic distance. A conversation on girlhood, solitude, and rendering pain poetic without losing hold of hope.

Samah Rafiq makes images that linger and glimmer. A conversation on the ritual of oil painting, a graphic design background that still shapes her work, and her upcoming solo show with Refusés.

Harlesden High Street isn't interested in the mainstream. Anaïs, Sophie, and Jonny on supporting marginalised voices, nurturing emerging artists, and resisting gentrification in their own neighbourhood.

Jesús Crespo on how perception and cultural diversity shape his practice. A conversation tracing his path through Madrid, Guadalajara, Lisbon, Tunis, and London, and the abstract forms it produced.

Flavia Nespatti, co-founder of anteroom, on building spaces that challenge traditional boundaries, chairing the Latin America Patrons Group at Delfina Foundation, and supporting emerging artists.

Anna Guggii, Creative Director of 8One, on blending art into everyday experience. A conversation on intuition over trend, discoveries at NADA Miami, and championing artists like Alvaro Barrington.

Radames 'Juni' Figueroa paints the Puerto Rico he lives in. A conversation on humour as a serious tool, recent work at Art Basel Miami, and the political edge beneath the tropical colour.

Charlie Russell paints the light that gets her through: the morning sun, the fire escape's flicker, a streetlamp through water. A conversation on working-class life, memory, and displacement.

Joséphine-May Bailey brings her years at the Barbican, Christie's, and Gagosian to 8 Vine Yard. A conversation on Face to Face, and curating where the intimate meets the monumental.

Finnish-born artist Anna Pesonen works between sculpture, sound, and spatial design. A conversation on Carrara marble, research-driven practice, and making art that asks to be felt, not just seen.

From LA to the Slade, Katja Farin paints figures as avatars: open to interpretation, shaped by gender fluidity and queer theory, and set in dreamlike worlds where dysphoria finds form.

Gaia Ozwyn heads to Lagos for the RCA BLK x Yinka Shonibare Foundation residency, ahead of a solo show at LBF Contemporary. Expect baroque drama, surreal landscapes, and sculpture bleeding into paint.

Gigi Surel, founder of Teaspoon Projects and new Project Partner at Good Eye Projects, is rethinking what an exhibition space can be: ephemeral, collaborative, and built around emerging voices.

Jack McGarrity paints the moments most people walk past. A conversation on Scotland, London, and building a practice that slows the viewer down through stillness and quiet absurdity.

Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy holds space for multiple truths at once. A conversation on growing up in London, painting as a modality for life, and the quiet power of non-binary thinking.

Selim Bouafsoun on collecting emerging artists, funding a Gasworks residency for a Tunisian artist, and the long view he and his wife are taking as they prepare to establish their own foundation.

For Justine Do Espirito Santo, Director of Air de Paris, gallery work is a long game. A conversation on artist development, sociopolitical engagement, and learning alongside her roster.

Evil Is Banal, Nour Malas' new show at Carbon 12 Gallery, sits in the space where beauty and unease coexist. A conversation on abstraction, violence, and the darkness hiding in plain sight.

Agrade Camíz paints Rio's contradictions, where beauty, harshness, and inequality share the same frame. A conversation on the suburban peripheries, the move to London, and the politics of everyday objects.

Sun-kyo Park on retro gaming glitches as symbolic language, tradition hidden in the everyday, and the precision that lets simplicity and complexity live in the same frame.

Toluwani Adejuyigbe, CEO of Brompton Industries, on the formative museum visits that sparked his collecting, and building a contemporary collection committed to reshaping representation.

Shane Berkery on the dual influences of his Irish and Japanese heritage, the interplay between realism and abstraction, and where he sees his practice sitting in the contemporary landscape.

Our first dialogue: chapter one artist Pei-Yi Tsai on personal narrative, emotional tapestry, and and what artistic growth actually feels like.