Kipkemoi

Los Angeles, September 2025

Kipkemoi is a German-Kenyan self-taught artist based in Los Angeles. Raised in northern Germany and shaped by his Kenyan heritage, Kip’s work explores themes of belonging, identity, and his everlasting question of “Where Is Home?”. Working primarily in acrylic medium, he uses the contrast of bright color palettes and monochromatic portraiture to highlight the emotional depth of the subjects. He aims to universalize the subjects’ lived experience, and make it relatable across cultural and geographic borders. Kip wants his art to focus on the inherent sameness of our human experience, as he expands my own understanding of belonging.

Patrick Chuka

Dallas, May 2025

Patrick Chuka (b. 2000, Lagos, Nigeria) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and cultural thinker whose work explores the intersection of African heritage, global identity, and the shared language of humanity. Working primarily in pen and pencil, Patrick creates lifelike portraits that center beauty, spirit, and emotion—offering a counter-narrative to dominant visual histories.

Rooted in a deep connection to his Nigerian origins, yet shaped by global travels and philosophical inquiry, Patrick’s practice reflects a continuous evolution. His art is not only a reflection of self but a vessel for reimagining culture, compassion, and consciousness. Through his art series, he fuses tradition with futurism, challenging viewers to see the sacred in the contemporary and the universal in the intimate.

Zoë Papini

Brooklyn, May 2025

Zoe Papini is a Florence-born, Brooklyn-raised artist whose work explores the complexities of human existence and the feeling of estrangement from one’s environment. Specializing in portraiture, she creates vivid, imaginative worlds that invite personal interpretation. After earning her BFA in Studio Art from Brooklyn College and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2019, she refined her techniques through historical painting methods that now inform her contemporary practice.

Uma Dehaan

London, October 2025

Uma Dehaan is a London-based artist and recent Central Saint Martins graduate, working primarily in painting and drawing. Rooted in abstraction, her practice explores themes of absence, stillness, and the transformation of domestic space. Through layered mark-making, colour fields, and the erasure of windows and doors, Dehaan constructs otherworldly interiors that feel at once intimate and unsettling. Her work navigates states of in-betweenness- between comfort and discomfort, presence, and ephemerality- often using negative space and subtle hints of light to evoke a quiet psychological tension.

Emily Bottomer

London, October 2025

Emily Bottomer is a London-based artist working across painting, drawing, and sculpture. She holds an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2025) and a BA in Fine Art from the University of Derby (2021).

Bottomer’s practice centres on abstract composition as a means of interrogating identity and lived experience, particularly through the lens of her working-class background. Her work explores themes of labour, dirt, control, and infiltration, with a focus on the psychological and physical states associated with liminality.

Through gestural mark-making, layering, and processes that deliberately resist refinement, Bottomer’s drawing and painting methods evoke dirt as both material and metaphor—suggesting contamination, resistance, and the seepage of the personal into institutional or regulated spaces.

Kai Ohlsen

London, March 2025

Kai Ohlsen is a British contemporary artist from Bath, now based in London. His expressive, instinctive paintings blur chaos and realism, reflecting lived experience over subject. From painting on found objects to scattering works across the city, KOHLSEN playfully challenges what art-making means today.

Kader Ampka

Los Angeles, February 2025

Kader Amkpa specializes in painting and object-making with historical and socio-economic context behind them. As a first-generation immigrant, Kader has lived in various parts of the world including England, Niamey, West Africa, and New York City. Each of those life experiences play a major role in the subject matter and direction he chooses to embark upon artistically. Capitalism and colonialism, followed by the need for expansion and how it has shaped various parts of the world are major themes throughout his work. As of 2025, Kader will be graduating with a MFA in Fine Art, from Otis College of Art and Design.