Emerging from Joram Roukes’ ongoing exploration of identity and the symbols that shape contemporary culture, Blue Bull reflects on the evolving perceptions of masculinity through a dialogue between three protagonists: a blue bull, a red doberman, and a solitary perch. Suspended within a composition that resists fixed orientation, the figures invite multiple readings, suggesting that ideas of strength, vulnerability, and power are never absolute, but continuously shaped by perspective.

Characteristic of Roukes' practice, disparate images, cultural references, and symbolic elements are brought together into layered compositions that remain open to multiple interpretations. Working across painting, collage, and digital processes, the artist constructs richly textured visual worlds where familiar forms are continually recontextualised. For this edition, the original composition has been reworked through a transformed background, screen-printed interventions, and hand-finished details, allowing the dialogue between the three protagonists to come into sharper focus.

Emerging from Kai Clements’ ongoing exploration of movement, rhythm, and the invisible forces that shape our environment, Mixed Motion unfolds through an intricate network of flowing lines that continuously shift between order and unpredictability. Built through an intuitive process rather than a predetermined pattern, the composition evokes the frequencies, energies, and natural rhythms that exist beneath the surface of our everyday perception.

Characteristic of Clements’ practice, precision and spontaneity coexist within the same visual language. Variations in line density and tonal transitions create a sense of movement and depth, allowing the eye to navigate the composition through moments of tension and release. Balancing structure with fluidity, Mixed Motion reflects on the ever-changing nature of perception, suggesting that harmony is not found in stillness, but in the dynamic equilibrium of opposing forces.

Emerging from Fintan Magee’s ongoing exploration of the relationship between painting, photography, and lived experience, The Travellers draws on a photograph taken by the artist in the Kyiv metro, where underground stations continue to serve as bomb shelters during the war. Depicting two children absorbed in a television programme while waiting below the city, the work captures a quiet moment in which the routines of everyday life persist amid uncertainty.

Characteristic of Magee’s recent practice, the image is deliberately blurred, dissolving the boundaries between documentation and painterly interpretation. Rather than obscuring the scene, this visual instability becomes a narrative device, evoking both movement and unease. Balancing intimacy with fragility, the work reflects on the resilience of ordinary life while reminding us that beneath moments of apparent normality lies a world shaped by conflict, impermanence, and constant change.

Emerging from Matthew Stone's ongoing exploration of layered realities, this work brings together movement, colour, and gestural forms into a composition where multiple visual and emotional dimensions coexist. Surfaces overlap, painted marks create shifting depths, while material and simulated spaces dissolve into one another, reflecting the complexity of contemporary experience.

Characteristic of Stone's practice, the digital and the physical are not positioned in opposition, but exist as complementary layers within the same pictorial language. Image, gesture, surface, and presence continuously intersect, creating a visual field where complexity gives way to moments of stillness and connection. Balancing movement with quiet contemplation, the work reflects on how, within an increasingly layered world, new ways of being fully human can continue to emerge.

Emerging from BIGOD’s exploration of vernacular culture and overlooked forms of labor, this edition reflects on the circulation of images and their role in shaping collective memory. Drawing on the figure of the street newspaper seller, the work positions artistic creation as an act of distribution: something that moves, repeats, and carries urgency.

Built through layered fragments and graphic rhythms, the composition evokes processes of print and reproduction, where images accumulate and transform over time. Balancing manual gesture with industrial reference, the work establishes a dialogue between past and present, translating a street-based visual language into a form that can be held, shared, and preserved.

"Afterglow” embodies Paul Insect’s fascination with masks, identity, and the fragmented theatre of everyday life. With striking detail and his iconic graphic cut-outs, the work radiates both humour and depth — a vibrant reminder of the beauty in imperfection and the authenticity that shines through when appearances fade.

EXIsT unfolds from João Fortuna’s investigation into the condition of the individual within cycles of acceleration and repetition. Composed through a vocabulary of fragmented visual codes, the work reflects a state where existence becomes mechanical, reduced to sequences of inputs and outputs, gestures and routines. Suspended between awareness and automatism, the piece traces a closed loop where meaning dissolves into repetition. Within this tension, between staying and escaping, permanence and rupture, EXIsT captures the fragile threshold where consciousness resists being absorbed into the system.