emotional exploration
38 works match
Fragility, despair and boredom are the pillars to Madeleine Pfull’s paintings of elderly women
2019
Amanda Eliasson's powerful animation reflects on the painful reality of drug abuse
2018
Danielle Orchard’s paintings interpret the “anxiety around intimacy”
2017
Laura Ķeniņš' illustrations of thoughtful narrative
2017
Hanne Berkaak’s deeply moving and sensitive animation tackling self-harm
2017
Andrea Nakhla paints her friends' "existential anxiety"
2017
Kristina Tzekova’s delicate drawings are inspired by the internet, impermanence and the fragility of life
2021
This bitter-sweet animation charts a unique kind of grief: the loss of naivety
2025
Social anxiety manifests on melty plasticine faces in Sam Gainsborough’s Facing It
2020
BAFTA Short Animation: Bobby Yeah
2012
Ruizhe Hong’s photography journeys through the entangled emotions of intimate relationships
2023
Illustration: Amélie Carpentier's illustrated book about love troubles
2014
Zitong Shao confronts her relationship with religion through expressive illustration
2020
Siân Davey on the ways psychotherapy has informed her photography
2017
Artist Elspeth Vince finds endless inspiration within the human body and mind
2022
Animation graduate Esther Cheung on her stunning short film In Passing
2019
Powerful, evocative and unflinching. We take a look Stuart Griffiths' photography
2012
Chase Middleton’s series Nostalgia For The Mud explores fear generated by the familiar
2020
Chinese animator Lei Lei reflects on sadness
2015
Ganmu's illustrations and animations look at the relationship between emotions and the objective world
2019
The ennui-infused images of Joyce Sze NG
2016
Photographer Yael Malka’s work is about “intimacy, tension, love, trust and sex”
2017
Blissful and joyous on the outside, Yulia Iosilzon’s paintings are in fact loaded with deeper contexts
2020
Remember those awkward years between teenage-hood and your early 20s? Well, now you can relive them with Jenny Jokela
2020
Isabel Magowan's theatrical images capture the uneasiness of growing up
2015
Shohei Morimoto’s paintings capture emotions that don’t particularly belong to anywhere
2018
Diyala Muir's animation Blue Hands mimics the surreal experience of grief
2019
“A paradox of sweetness, serenity and internal questioning”: meet illustrator Léna Mačka
2017
Oyow’s peaceful work aims to convey the sad, happy and sometimes complicated nature of relationships
2023
Nano illustrates the different kinds of loneliness that we all feel from time to time
2019
With distorted perspectives and an electric palette, Lulu Lin draws faces like you’ve never seen before
2023
This animation “speaks to the everyday hero thrown in the midst of a chaotic virtual world”
2020
Leebin Soyeon depicts shame trapped in translucent objects from jellies to balloons
2019
Cristina BanBan’s current exhibition combines memory, Spanish culture and the feelings of being apart from your family
2020
This animator elevates memory into dusty, eerie vignettes
2026
Jun Cen’s soothing illustrations explore loneliness in the modern era
2019
Olivia Sterling paints nostalgia-filled pieces to deconstruct complex issues of othering
2020
Illustrator Corey Wash’s red figure is both relatable and ethereal
2024