Carla Busuttil is interested in ideas surrounding power and authority. Her caricature-like style undermines the authority of the people portrayed in her portraits – the style of the painting becomes equal to the subject matter. In 2008 she graduated from The Royal Academy Schools and in 2009 had her first solo show Tuxed Fucks – And other curious outfits at Gimpel Fils, London and was in Jerwood Contemporary Painters. She is currently showing in Newspeak: British Art Now at The Saatchi Gallery, London.

Paul Housley shows little regard for pictorial hierarchy or the boundaries of prescribed genres. His intimately scaled images of impotent toy soldiers, petrified animals and plastic dolls’ heads unfold new layers beyond the objects depicted. But, as the artist says, ‘on one level, what you see is what you get.’ His solo shows include Orders from Chaos, Peter Bergman ALP Gallery, Stockholm; Some Have Eyes, Wilkinson Gallery, London; Heavy Easel, Norwich Gallery, Norwich and The Boy is made of Plastic, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland.

Cathy Lomax’s interests lie within the arenas of fame, mythology, longing and duplication. Her Puce Moment paintings focus on details of Elvis’ 1970s stage outfits. These icons of kitsch are treated reverentially, capturing their culturally significant essence. Recent group shows include Bright Lights of London Painting at Resy Muijsers Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands, Flash Company, English Folk Dance and Song Society, Cecil Sharp House, London and Anoupseudonymous, Five Hundred Dollars, London. Her work was selected for the Salon 09 exhibition in Vyner St, London.

Alli Sharma explores identity, longing and loss by taking an ambiguous glance back at her own history, unearthing memories to create revealing, fluid, gestural paintings. Recent exhibitions include The Trouble With Women, Menier Gallery, London; Sehnsucht, Transition at JTP09, James Taylor Gallery, London, The Threadneedle Prize 2009, Mall Galleries, London and Bad Animals, Transition Gallery, London.