The Figurative Collective

Delicia Sampero, Andy Leleisi’uao, Gary Waldrom, Richard Boyd-Dunlop, Marcus Hipa, and Natasha Keating

In Time

The Figurative Collective can be seen as a group of painting activists, united by a commitment to exploring and sharing their raison d’être. Each artist has developed a distinctive visual language through which they grapple with life’s questions, offering painted reflections on how they see and experience the world. Their work is nurtured in a spirit of solidarity, finding solace in the company of fellow artists who support one another’s perspectives on the beauty and the difficulty of the human condition.

In Time takes its context from the year 2026 — a moment shaped by the AI revolution and rapid technological, ecological, and societal shifts. The exhibition will present original and multiple painted figures by each artist, highlighting concepts that exist alongside these transformations. It seeks to provide perspectives that encourage curiosity and imagination, drawing on human experience as both fragile and resilient.

Culturally diverse, the artists of the Figurative Collective have developed evocative ways of portraying the human form and face. Their paintings reach beyond personal experience and heritage, referencing multiple times, places, dimensions, and cultures, and inviting viewers into diverse perceptions and interpretations.

In Time is envisioned as an exhibition that is aesthetically compelling, thought-provoking, and imaginative — simultaneously enigmatic, transcendent, and subtly humorous. The exhibition aims to immerse viewers physically as well as emotionally in the possibilities of contemporary figurative painting.