Nathalie Du Pasquier
b. 1957, Bordeaux, France
Lives and wotks in Milan, Italy

In a series of new square paintings for Art Basel, Nathalie Du Pasquier explores the expressive power of colour, shape and form. These works on canvas present the artist's signature geometric forms in dynamic compositional arrangements, demonstrating the artist’s mastery of spatial manipulation, intuitive understanding of colour, and the spirit of playfulness that has saturated her work since her role in the Memphis Movement. 

Born in Bordeaux, France, Nathalie Du Pasquier first discovered pattern and texture in West Africa in the 1970s, and has lived in Milan since 1979. A founding member of the Memphis design group, she designed textiles, carpets, plastic laminates, furniture and objects before dedicating herself to painting in 1987. Her work has been exhibited at MACRO, Rome; MRAC, Sérignan; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Camden Arts Centre, London; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; ICA, Philadelphia; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark and Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye in France.

Justin Fitzpatrick
b. 1985, Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in Montargis, France

Justin Fitzpatrick’s paintings explore human consciousness through the prism of biology. In Pituitary-Thyroid Rosaries, glands secreting hormones are reimagined as long strings of prayer beads, swathed between and spilling out of the mouths of various interconnected figures – a reference to ecclesiastical involvement in early fertility treatments.

Born in 1985 in Dublin, Ireland, Justin Fitzpatrick attended St. Oswald’s School of Painting in London from 2004–2007 and earned his MA in Fine Art Painting from the Royal College of Art in London in 2015. Institutional solo exhibitions include Ballotta, La Ferme du Buisson, Paris (ongoing until 28 July) and Alpha Salad, The Tetley, Leeds (2022). Justin’s first solo exhibition at Kerlin Gallery will take place in October 2024. 

Siobhán Hapaska
b. 1963, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
lives and works in London and Rotterdam

Siobhán Hapaska presents a life-sized sculpture of a lion, modelled on historical examples such as the Medici Lions in Florence. Once symbolising imperial power, the lion here is trussed up by scaffolding and has lost the sphere once held under its paw. Premiering at Art Basel, the work follows Hapaska’s recent institutional solo exhibition Medici Lion at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, earlier this year. 

Siobhán Hapaska has had recent solo exhibitions at Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2023-24); the Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Switzerland (2020); John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton (2019). Her work has been exhibited at MoMA Ps1, New York; Serpentine Gallery, London; Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris; Singapore Art Museum; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, and in solo presentations at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall; Museum Boijmans Van Beuingan, Rotterdam; the Barbican, Camden Arts Centre and the ICA in London. She has participated in major international exhibitions including Documenta X, the British Art Show, Glasgow International, and the 49th and 56th Venice Biennales. Public collections include Hirshhorn, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Tate, London; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

Callum Innes
b. 1962, Edinburgh, Scotland
Lives and works in Oslo, Norway and Edinburgh, Scotland

Over the past 35 years, Callum Innes has developed a completely individual approach to painting. Repeatedly applying and dissolving layers of paint, rich in texture and colour, the artist exposes the fundamentals of paint itself. Full of humanity and fallibility, his art strives for a balance between precision and imperfection, opacity and luminosity, contemplation and material presence. 

Callum Innes has been the subject of solo exhibitions at De Pont Museum, Tilburg; Kunsthalle Bern; Neues Museum, Nürnberg; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the ICA, London; the Scottish National Gallery, and the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Modern Art Oxford; the Whitworth, Manchester; IMMA, Dublin; Château La Coste, Provence and Kode, Bergen, where a new public artwork has just been installed on the building’s facade. His work can be found in the collections of  Centre Pompidou, Paris; National Galleries of Australia, Canberra; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York and Tate, London.

Merlin James
b. 1960, Cardiff, Wales
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland

Trees and Water by Merlin James presents an abstracted riverside view, glimpsing water through trees. The wood of the trees finds an off-kilter kinship in the painting’s stretcher bar, revealed by a cut-out section at the right-hand side of the picture frame. Similarly, in Notch Frame, an artist-made frame becomes an integral part of the painting, its distinctive shape mirrored by a cut-away ‘notch’ in the canvas, a mysterious window drawing us deeper into the artist’s lyrical and idiosyncratic work.

Merlin James has had numerous solo exhibitions, including Venice Biennale, Wales Pavilion; KW Institute, Berlin; Kunstsaele, Berlin; CCA, Glasgow; Kunstverein, Freiberg; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; OCT, Shunde & Shenzhen. International collections include Tate, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China and National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. 2023 saw the release of a landmark new publication gathering 40 years of the artist’s work. 

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
b. 1978, Clare, Ireland
Lives and Works in Cork, Ireland.

Interval III is a large-scale Jacquard tapestry, woven with wool, cotton, silk and Lurex. The work originates in collage and is a composite of fragments, brought together to create a visual world that is at once precise and enigmatic. Like the wider Interval series, it is underpinned by loose categories of imagery: early photographic portraiture, underground caves and architectural ruins. The formal construct of the group portrait, with its projection of status and stability, is punctured at once by the deep time of geological formations and the crumbling structures of the contemporary. The resulting scene of threshold and collapse is inhabited by an unlikely cast of creatures, threading an imagined line between present-day threats of extinction and ancient narratives of the underworld. 

Interval III reflects an ongoing body of work, encompassing sculpture, photography and a forthcoming film. At its core is an exploration of dislocation, with historical displacement considered against the spectre of loss that haunts the contemporary imagination.

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s work has been shown widely internationally, with exhibitions including the 16th Lyon Biennale; Hammer Museum, LA; Broad Museum, Michigan; Whitechapel Gallery, London; CCA, Glasgow; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid and Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin. Current and forthcoming solo exhibitions include An Experiment with Time, Kunsthal Gent, Belgium (Solo, 31 May – 31 December 2024); The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin and Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland (both 2025). Public collections of her work include the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; MAC Lyon; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; and Trinity College Dublin.

Liliane Tomasko
b. 1967, Zurich, Switzerland
Lives and works in London and New York

A compelling new diptych by Liliane Tomasko, The Good, The Bad, and the Other, continues the artist’s investigation of the human psyche in the domestic sphere. Intense colour, subtle tone, shadow, and painterly gesture allow space to come in and out of focus, oscillating between clarity and obscurity and emulating the atmospheric power of dreams and memories. 

Tomasko’s recent solo exhibitions include The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Name me not, CAB Burgos, Spain (both 2023);  S P E L L O F T H E W O O D, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda; Evening Wind, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York, USA (both 2022); and Morpheus, Kunstmuseum Kloster unser lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Germany (2021). She has also exhibited at Château la Coste, Aix-en-Provence; Hôtel des Art, Toulon; ROCA Rockland Center for the Arts, New York; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; Lowe Art Museum, Miami and Museo MATE, Lima. Tomasko’s work is represented in the public collections of The Albertina, Vienna; Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern; Lowe Art Museum, Miami; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.