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