Immanuel Adelowo makes precise paintings and drawings that depict highly specific but imagined places. These works involve the use of memory, digital images, and observations from the real world in one place. His marks come from his feeling for the materials he’s using and a careful design of the composition. In all his pieces colour-blending becomes a way of showing us the relationships between things and how they fit together. About his thought process while painting, Immanuel says: “It’s about trying for balance… between what is there and not there – questions of what to keep and not keep. If I do a brush mark, and it looks good there, I leave it and search for when a piece of the painting ‘fits’.” Immanuel often paints open spaces that contain intricate domestic details. This produces intriguing, surreal contrasts, like a small table sat in a vast mountainous landscape, or a tray of drinks offered up in a desert. The movement of the sea, caves and the horizon are repeated motifs. His work invites us to think about what is seen and what is remembered, creating a world where an atmosphere of strangeness houses everyday objects.
Henny Shaw is a multimedia visual artist and creative organiser based in London. Inspired by her work with young people, children and families, and neurodivergent and Disabled people, she is currently exploring tactile and intuitive processes of making, and the therapeutic qualities of art. Henny has studied a foundation course in Arts Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths, University of London. They have worked with organisations such as Crafts Council, Camden Arts Centre, and Artbox London to deliver collaborative, process-led workshops. Henny was the organiser and founder of CRIT CLUB, a peer-topeer artist support and feedback group, and has curated several exhibitions and creative events celebrating young people, connection, and creativity. She is currently studying the Art Psychotherapy MA at Goldsmiths.
Eva Jonas is a London-based visual artist and educator. Her practice invites viewers to reflect on our relationship with the natural world, recording where the body mediates how we experience, preserve, and perform within landscapes. Her projects lean on the processes of collecting and publishing. They are often informed by sculptural pieces and research ephemera, such as visual guides for creative crafts and outdoor activities. She draws on these instructional images to consider the extent to which engagement with the natural world is taught versus innate. Eva is currently co-facilitating Peer Matters, an artist development programme supported by Photoworks. Recent exhibitions include The Natural, Rural and Remote and accompanying workshop, Garden Recordings at Serchia Gallery, Bristol in July 2023, and a group show with (re)structure as part of Brighton Photo Fringe in October 2022. Eva’s first book Let’s Sketch the Lay of the Land was published in October 2020 by September Books.
