Group Exhibition of UK Artists: The Way We Live Now
In an era defined by digital saturation, climate anxiety, and shifting social contracts, how do we navigate the texture of daily life? Five London-based artists' works capture the particular quality of being alive in 2025 - the simultaneous hyper-connectedness and isolation, the blend of virtual and physical realities of a post-pandemic age, and the quiet moments of resistance and contemplation that define our current moment. This group exhibition with Sun Gallery explores the notion that while we may strive for a cohesive vision, our reality often consists of fragmented experiences that reflect the complexities of modern existence.
Thomas Cameron's dream-like urban scenes occupy that threshold space between the everyday and the extraordinary. Depicting London's liminal spaces, the artist taps into archetypal experiences of alienation, searching, and connection. In Fast Food Workers, we see figures at work, coming together yet strangely isolated in an everyday, mundane room of the fast food restaurant. The cinematic, moody compositions convey a dreamlike quality as Cameron shows us a selection of understated, fleeting moments in urban life that are often overlooked.
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Pato Bosich
Omphalos River, 2025Oil on canvas
160 x 183 cm
Pato Bosich
Dream of the Cave III
Oil on board
46 x 46cm
Omphalos River takes Pato Bosich's London into a new realm of vision, where the maelstrom, spiral, and water vortex appear, embodying the hermetic principle "as above, so below." Born from the artist's mythical narratives and countless walks through the city, the river bend around Rotherhithe mingles with architectural elements from various London locations. The historic Mayflower pub appears as an actual raft, evoking the Pilgrim Fathers' departure from this same place.
In Dream of the Cave III we return to the artist’s studio as space for the act of magical transformation as we saw in Bosich’s previous solo exhibition “Magical Equilibrium”. Elements from the actual studio are relocated beyond London to places where the artist travels in his imagination – a treehouse or a water mill.
Together, these artists represent a distinctly contemporary voice: multicultural, literature-influenced, intimate yet universal. They paint not the iconic London of postcards but the London you inhabit daily—its light, its corners, its psychological spaces, its ongoing stories of arrival and belonging. Their work suggests that the most profound artistic statements emerge not from distance but from sustained attention to what is closest at hand. These contemporary painters transform the immediate and overlooked into something both deeply local and universally resonant.
They are artists who have learned to read their world closely, and in doing so, reveal the poetry inherent in proximity itself. They prove that the most profound art can come from the closest, most familiar territory – if you look with a poet’s eye, and listen carefully.