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2016Caitlyn Murphy's paintings elevate the charm of everyday life
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2015Hilarious John Smith's spot celebrates the not-so-ordinary bloke
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2010Miranda July
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2013Photography: Jason Nocito's photographs capture the moments we miss
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2017Angela Dalinger’s paintings add an acrylic sheen to daily life
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2012Peepshow: Museum of Objects & Origins
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2024Ian Archie Beck’s peaceful paintings illuminate the “simple beauty” of British suburbia
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2017Helen Eunhwa Oh’s vivid illustrations draw the eccentricities from everyday life
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2016Photographer Jiaxi Yang’s new series makes us reevaluate everyday objects
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2020Lexia Hachtmann's detailed paintings depict the objects we surround ourselves with
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2008Tom Judd Everyday
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2020Photographer Toby Coulson captures the “humour, beauty and strangeness” of everyday interactions
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2012Loving Marianne Anderson's collection of phone sketches of everyday objects
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2009Things
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2021Tactile, quick, scribbly and playful: Lotte Cassidy reflects on lockdown in a new series of illustrations
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2023Phones phones phones: Jurell Cayetano’s paintings don’t just reflect the everyday lives of his friends, but all of us
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2022Mariella Bilitsa uses “narrative from everyday life” as inspiration for her brightly coloured work
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2021Alma Berrow’s pieces find the humour in the “grossness” of everyday life
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2017Brian Lotti celebrates the commonplace in his personable paintings
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2019Milk, laundry and PB&J: Erika Lee Sears paints the objects from motherhood
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2018“I like to work on projects that have an aspect of reality”: Richard Dowker's pink-toned photography
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2019Self-taught photographer Piero Percoco captures everyday spectacles
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2018Vicki King explains how she uses photography to elevate the mundane
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2017Photographer Sarah Blais captures “the quiet moments of beauty in ordinary life”
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2019Laura Jayne Hodkin's new film depicts the tipsy ritual of heading to the chicken shop
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2021Illustrator Pedro Gomes depicts awkwardness and mundanity though deadpan humour
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2021Packages, CDs and scraps of food: Nicolás Romero Escalada paints the scenes of life over lockdown
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2011Ninian Doff: Staring Out The Window
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2020Alexander Coggin photographs a topsy-turvy year through the children in his life
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2008Grandchildren
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2024Dasha Surma’s artworks are all about making magic out of the mundane
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2016Liam Hart's photography carries a visceral energy, even when capturing the banal
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2025Tea parties, myths and abstract forms: Yung Hsuan Wang’s work draws out everyday wonders
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2012Beautifully atmospheric paintings of the everyday by Eugenie Marais
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2021Cory Feder’s beautiful and expressive illustrations are born out of feelings of otherness
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2019Tina Schwizgebel-Wang’s etchings are filled with detailed scenes of everyday life
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2017Anton Renborg on mimicking daily life in his latest shoot for Vogue Italia
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2011Vintage American Illustration
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2019Hester Finch's artworks portrays normal instances "rendered in a state of taut anxiety"
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2013Illustration: Keith Warren Greiman shows us how surreal the everyday can be
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2020“I want people to feel good about being alive”: Rob Moss Wilson’s works are absolute joy
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2014Funny watercolours of mundane scenes by Sarah-Louise Barbett
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2018Apartamento at ten: a decade of celebrating the everyday home
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2017Artist Hiejin Yoo's colourful look at the mundane
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2019Photography publication Dista captures the rather beautiful side to the mundane
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2016Illustrator George Wylesol captures our imagination utilising the mundane
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2020Kamil Lach’s illustrations are a testament to simplification
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2011Museum der Dinge (Museum of Things)
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2012Daniel Everett's tranquil departure series subdues the everyday hustle and bustle
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2017Karen Lederer's charming monoprints interpret contemporary everyday objects
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2019Toilet rolls and sat navs: Photographer Andy Price will make you look twice at everyday objects
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2017Gudim Anton’s humorous comic strips take a fresh perspective on the mundane
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2011Things
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2013Photography: Grant Harder's photography shows how dramatic the everyday can be
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2023iPad illustrator UU focuses on the “joy” of drawing rather than the final result
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2020Illustrator Jhon Boy conveys the oddities of everyday life through “clean lines and sober environments”
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2012Photographer Colin Doyle finds the important in the insignificant everyday
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2025Kazuki Koga’s colourful paintings are full of soft scenes that you’ll long to be part of
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2020The irony of life takes centre stage in Johanna Ploch’s humorous illustrations
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2022Junxian Chen’s colourful illustrations search for a “ceremonial” quality in everyday life
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2024Chopping, folding, eating: Mon Jajaja’s illustrations show the joy that food brings to our lives
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2020Katie Benn’s work is underpinned by playful combinations of colour
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2015Adrian Samson's cinematic images capture the everyday wonderfully
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2014Craig Buchan captures modern day nuns in terrific series Commitment
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2020The absurdity of the everyday: George Manson and his wonderfully odd and bizarrely charming illustrations
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2020“Everyday things, observed or heard” are the inspiration behind Sarah Fabre’s naive yet charming illustrations
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2022“Like a snapshot in an album”: Zhigang Zhang’s peaceful illustrations preserve fleeting moments of everyday life
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2017Joey Yu’s sporadic and colourful illustrations play upon on the mundane moments
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2020Anaïs Michel’s two-tone illustrations depict the “endearing and hopeful” moments of everyday life
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2016Submit Saturdays: photographer Jacob Burge reveals his "random" process
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2017Tokyo-based photographer Yota Yoshida’s “poetic expressions in the everyday”
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2018Photographer Olivier Degorce's new book lets you snoop in strangers' fridges
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2019Marcus Oakley's latest series is inspired by how mundanity influences our creative process
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2020Avoiding clichés, Sophie Wedgwood turns her lens on Havana
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2014Photography: Pauline Miserez's photography even makes washing up look appealing
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2021Larry Madrigal infuses vitality in his painting of the quotidian
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2019Manon Molesti creates hyperrealistic scenes crafted with felt tip pens
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2016Poised for greatness: Gustl the dog as photographed by proud owner Lukas Wassmann
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2007One Fine Day
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2019Shane Beam makes the everyday expressive through his hand drawn animations
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2016Artist Peter Tillessen’s new book of drawings observe everyday life and its nuances
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2013Cait Oppermann's photography highlights the magic in the mundane
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2012Joseph Mann: Small Hands
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2023In Water Sugar, Alec Doherty draws from his own memory but we can all relate
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2012Lose yourself by delving into Julie Blackmon's fantasies of everyday realities
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2017Illustrator Nykie Ngan’s latest project “celebrates the unseen of the everyday”
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2013Photography: Julien Capelle looks for the graphic aesthetics of everyday life
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2019Woshibai's hilariously clever comics explore themes of mundanity and reverie
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2020Using airbrush techniques, Elena Rotenberg paints her parents, buildings and stony deserts
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2022Painter Owen Rival finds beauty in the mundane moments of life and coupledom
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2021Amber Leia Jones’ illustrations allow you to escape to a more peaceful, softer world
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2022Paul Romans’ insightful photo series documents “everyday” scenes from the pandemic
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2012Praise for the humble human in these voyeuristic paintings by Serban Savu
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2018Jiye Kim's latest illustrations shed light on the details of ordinary life
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2017Ricky Leung’s illustrations capture the quiet moments of everyday life
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2016We can relate to Aisha Franz' illustrations
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2017Maciej Dakowicz's photographs capture unexpected, serendipitous moments
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2016Taku Bannai’s simply constructed collages depict daily life in pastel hues
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2020Carmen Colombo uses her medium to tell stories of everyday life, as seen through her eyes
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2012It's that time of the week again, for Things, Things, Things!
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2012Blommers & Schumm erotically charge everyday objects for Baron
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2020Steffen Ullman’s digital illustrations mess with reality
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2018Audun Alvestad creates tender paintings of the “ordinary Joe”
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2017Big-hearted illustrator Call Me George(s) finds inspiration and humour in the everyday
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2016The extraordinary everyday captured by photographer Ryosuke Takamura
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2020Jim Klok’s drawings are the perfect balance of expression and refinement
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2026Hiding in plain sight: how do creatives find inspiration in everyday life?
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2017“Things just happen, as things do”: the world through the eyes of William Eggleston
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2020Excited by the everyday, Or Lapid’s practice captures fleeting moments of beautiful mundanity
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2012Cartoonist Jordan Crane and his excellent What Things Do site
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2011A Normal Day
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2018Photographer Carl Oliver Ander examines “the false relationship to reality that the medium has”
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2024James Barnett on creating an extraordinary TikTok time capsule of his parents’ everyday life
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2016It’s just life: The democratic eye of William Eggleston
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2015Misia Schmidt's ink drawings of teenage girls goofing and lazing around
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