Ewelina Pachnik works on the first impression that has nothing to do with a face. Before anyone has finished looking at you, they have heard you say three words, and […]

Lisa Bailey spent years building faces from bone for the FBI, so that someone who had loved that person might recognise them. Forensic art is the one place where appearance […]

Niamh Davis tattoos skin in Arizona so that something stops being visible. Almost everything else done with a needle and pigment is meant to be noticed. Her work runs the […]

Joanna Nowicka shoots black and white portraits in Katowice, and people arrive at her studio with a fixed idea of how they look. Usually a harsh one. Over the years […]

Ane de Cocó makes hats by hand in Spain, to measure, for people who mostly arrive convinced that hats do not suit them. She works in a craft that used […]

Deirdre Nicholls sculpts people from life and paints landscapes in watercolour, and the two disciplines contradict each other on purpose. A watercolour has to be caught before the rain comes. […]

Monie Szabó paints portraits in oil and graphite in Gothenburg, mostly in black and white, and she also photographs the people she paints. She runs her own gallery, teaches, and […]

Craig Barnard makes portrait sculptures from life, which means he spends around twenty hours in a room with a face before it becomes a head. He also paints and works […]