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“My practice explores interrelated themes of connection, desire, trace and collective memory, typically responding to im...
15/08/2026

“My practice explores interrelated themes of connection, desire, trace and collective memory, typically responding to images, objects and ephemera that hold some significance or charge. In recent work, the painted surface has become a site of tension between what is visible and what is concealed, attending to the ways in which images emerge, recede, and persist as traces rather than stable representations.”

Graham Silveria Martin (b. 1983) is a Scottish artist living and working in London. He graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Painting in 2021 following studies at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art. Solo presentations of his work include A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2025), Closer Still, GROVE, London (2024), Talisman, Incubator, London (2023), and Portals, Huxley-Parlour, London (2022). Selected group shows include Wake, New Art Projects, London (2025), Time + Place, Huxley-Parlour, London (2024), Outside of History, The Who Gallery, London (2023), Stilled Images, Tube Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (2023), Painting With Light, Vortic Curated & Wardour Street, London (2023), Glitches in Love: a new formula, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo (2023), Internal Weather, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2022), London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London (2021).
He is a recipient of the Huxley-Parlour FOUR x THREE Grant (2022), the Jerwood Arts 1:1 FUND Grant (2021), the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2020) and the Hope Scott Trust Visual Arts Grant (2020).

Featured work:
Graham Silveria Martin,
Looking, 2025
Acrylic on calico, steel frame
24 2/5 × 28 3/10 × 1 3/5 in | 62 × 72 × 4 cm

Installation views: In the Body Lies the Truth, curated by Thom Oosterhof, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest, 2026

ᴍᴀᴛᴛɪᴀ ɢᴜᴀʀɴᴇʀᴀ’s practice centers on the human condition, focusing on overlooked moments of everyday life. By studying ...
31/07/2026

ᴍᴀᴛᴛɪᴀ ɢᴜᴀʀɴᴇʀᴀ’s practice centers on the human condition, focusing on overlooked moments of everyday life. By studying figures, textures, fabrics, and objects through studies, he isolates fleeting visual moments, romanticising the mundane. His work transforms ordinary scenes into catalysts for deeper reflection, challenging viewers to reconsider their perceptions of modern life.

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Mattia Guarnera, a painter born and raised in South East London, draws from his Italian and Ghanaian heritage to shape a distinct artistic perspective. His dual background informs a nuanced approach to navigating cultural, social, and personal identities, fueling his exploration of themes like coexistence, duality, and the balance of opposing forces. This perspective is reflected in his work, which has been exhibited globally at prestigious venues such as Frieze Art Fair, the Royal Academy, Saatchi Gallery Art Fair, The Hole NYC, and Christie’s Late.

Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy
Forced Entry, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
47 1/5 × 29 1/2 × 4/5 in | 120 × 75 × 2 cm

Installation view, “The Melange of the Many”, Curated by Catalin "Cat" Necula, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest, 2025

Mark Metcalfe Mark_Metcalfe_Artist builds each painting as a private mythology: Jungian archetypes, the fallen angels of...
28/07/2026

Mark Metcalfe Mark_Metcalfe_Artist builds each painting as a private mythology: Jungian archetypes, the fallen angels of the Book of Enoch, the transactional intimacy of painter and muse traced back through Goya’s late portraits. He trained at Camberwell, University of the Arts London, and spent ten years as an assistant to Damian Hirst. The paintings are photographic in realism, built without visible brushwork, staged in compositions borrowed from Japanese brush painting, a foreground, a mist, a figure, and populated by characters that sit somewhere between Victor Man, Kati Heck, and Freud.

Mark Metcalfe, Lady Electra Standing, 2022, Oil on canvas, 70 9/10 × 51 1/5 × 1 3/5 in | 180 × 130 × 4 cm

Melancholia 3, 2022, Oil on canvas, 19 7/10 × 25 3/5 × 1 1/5 in | 50 × 65 × 3 cm

Lady Electra Seated, 2022, Oil on canvas, 72 × 59 4/5 × 1 1/5 in | 183 × 152 × 3 cm

Chimera Bloom, 2022, Oil on canvas, 61 × 49 1/5 × 1 3/5 in | 155 × 125 × 4 cm

Ishtar Ishtar RaRaRa, 2025, Oil on canvas, 61 × 49 1/5 × 1 1/5 in | 155 × 125 × 3 cm

“A darkly mystifying hyper-realism, captivating the underlying expressionism in Mark’s paintings.” — Antoinette Haselhorst, C.A.K.E.

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Last week on view: ’s solo show at IOMO Gallery comes to an end this Saturday. The exhibition can be visited until Aug 1...
27/07/2026

Last week on view: ’s solo show at IOMO Gallery comes to an end this Saturday.
The exhibition can be visited until Aug 1, 2026, 11am–6pm. Marking her second solo exhibition with IOMO, the project presents a new body of work sitting at the threshold between the mundane and the metaphysical. Emma Păvăloaia reflects upon Romanian folk tradition, memories of her childhood neighbourhood, daily anxieties and, ultimately, transcendence of reality.

A number of works remain available. Email or DM us before the show comes down.

Nathan Ritterpusch, “Try Asking Someone Who Cares” series. Oil on canvas. Drawing on vintage American pin-up photography...
27/07/2026

Nathan Ritterpusch, “Try Asking Someone Who Cares” series. Oil on canvas. Drawing on vintage American pin-up photography of the 1950s and ‘60s, the surface undulates between representation and abstraction: legible at a distance, dissolving on close inspection.

Works featured:

Nathan Ritterpusch
Try Asking Someone Who Cares #14, 2026
Oil on canvas
36 × 48 in | 91.4 × 121.9 cm

Try Asking Someone Who Cares #9, 2025
Oil on canvas
36 × 48 in | 91.4 × 121.9 cm

From studio to show 🖌️Arthur Lemonier’s practice unfolds as an intense and sensitive exploration of the body as a site o...
23/07/2026

From studio to show 🖌️

Arthur Lemonier’s practice unfolds as an intense and sensitive exploration of the body as a site of tension, metamorphosis, and social projection.

His paintings directly challenge the norms that continue to dictate what a body should be: its form, its gender, its function, its legibility. Within this practice, the body is neither corrected nor explained: it is lived, felt, and passed through.

Arthur Lemonier’s references span both tragic narratives and emancipatory figures: lives marked by medical and social violence, alongside icons who have used the body as a space of experimentation, disguise, and power. His work carries traces of memory, grief, and homage, while also driven by a vibrant, almost celebratory energy that honors those who embody transformation, audacity, and fluidity.

Works featured:

The Lake Can Hold Us, 2026
Oil on canvas
46 1/2 x 25 5/8 in
118 x 65 cm

Green Bath, 2026
Signed and dated verso
Oil on canvas
22 x 14 cm

Flesh Bleeds, 2026
Signed and dated verso
Oil on canvas
22 x 14 cm

“In the Body Lies the Truth”, Curated by Thom Oosterhof, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest, 2026

In conversation with our guest curator Thom Oosterhof, Sam Lipp Sam Lipp reflects on the ideas behind SCUM (2023), an oi...
22/07/2026

In conversation with our guest curator Thom Oosterhof, Sam Lipp Sam Lipp reflects on the ideas behind SCUM (2023), an oil on steel work presented as part of In the Body Lies the Truth.

Thom Oosterhof: There is an intimacy and a vulnerability to your works that is juxtaposed by the use of material and elements of your technique, why the contrast and what narrative are you seeking to convey?

Sam Lipp: The work simultaneously reflects my interior psychic landscape and a materialist analysis of the external world. The use of steel as a substrate responds to the built environment of our capitalist age of war machines and factories. I like to juxtapose this with fragile emotional motifs, it has a staccato rhythm that mirrors the way I think and experience the world.

TO: There seems at times almost a romanticism or a nostalgia buried within your work, if so, where does this come from?

SL: Romanticism is definitely there, though I think I access it negatively. Romantic art was always about the dialectic between beauty and abjection, which is a key theme in my work. Nostalgia has been discussed in relation to my work, but I am actively against that interpretation. I never look at the past romantically as if things were better before. Rather, I am interested in the present as a sediment of accumulated historical forms, to see what synchronicities occur across epochs and what earlier practices of resistance can inform today.

Sam Lipp, SCUM, 2023
Oil on steel, screws
39 × 31 in | 99.1 × 78.7 cm

Installation views, “In the Body Lies the Truth”, Curated by Thom Oosterhof, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest, 2026

Read the full interview on our website. Link in bio.

“I love science fiction, specifically le Guin’s writing, because of the ways in which the things idealized now can be do...
20/07/2026

“I love science fiction, specifically le Guin’s writing, because of the ways in which the things idealized now can be done away with, and alternate stories of living can be imagined.

What if what we wanted already existed, what if we didn’t have to feel so jaded.”

Alejandra Moros alejandra moros considers physicality to be of enduring importance. In an interview with Curatorial, she talks about her obsession over small details, about Florida as a source of inspiration—“a place that is ecologically and politically precarious”—and about the real world, which has much to offer, noting that the stories and futures imagined by people are far more valuable to her than those invented by something powered by artificial intelligence models.

Alejandra Moros (b. 2000, Miami) uses painting, drawing, and found objects to explore themes such as transformation, science fiction, and adaptation, drawing on her interest in how bodily alteration can serve as an indicator of time, place, and intention. She lives in Miami, exploring the connections between these themes and the Florida landscape.

Alejandra Moros
Arranca/Acompaña, 2025
Oil on canvas
6 × 12 in | 15.25 × 30.5 cm

Alejandra Moros
Septiembre, 2025
Oil on canvas
16 × 8 in | 40.6 × 20.3 cm

Installation view, “In the Body Lies the Truth”, Curated by , IOMO Gallery, Bucharest, 2026

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