The Chinese contemporary artist Yifan Jiang weaves surreal narratives related to cultural memory via the abstraction of individual images, and figurative characters reminiscent of the style of the Colombian painter Fernando Botero. Inspired by the morays of traditional Chinese painting, The RCA graduate directs a personal theatre in her work that transports us into a vast and secret world, tinged with poetry, and a haunting ethereal quality.

The award-winning architect-turned painter Abe Odedina wants you to experience the profound in the everyday, and use his art as a to contemplate the gift of being alive. Despite coming to art later in life, his mesmeric figurative work has already been shown in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition the National Portrait Gallery (following a Portrait Award nomination for his The Adoration of Frida Kahlo portrait), Somerset House and Carnegie Hall.

Andy Warhol’s Brain: Creative Intelligence For Survival is the latest book by Dr Phillip Romero, and it examines the creative drive of the most famous artist of modern history. Taking Warhol as its central axis, the esteemed New York psychiatrist presents an update of his thesis on ‘creative intelligence’, which makes the case for personal enlightenment and harnessing one’s creativity as the antidote to chronic stress.

Alex Eagle effortlessly weaves her informal yet refined aesthetic between everything from bespoke tailoring to jewelry, cosmetics, and more. Eagle’s inimitable taste is perhaps most beautifully exhibited in her highly curated flagship retail space at cultural destination par exemplar 180 The Strand and she has become somewhat synonymous with a rarefied minimalism that leads the way in the environs of a luxury industry seeking to be defined not only by attention to detail but also by an ethical approach to production.

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There are few in the world of contemporary art who are not aware of Pink Bear, the iconic brainchild of artist LUAP (Paul Robinson), who is often presented as a shocking pink solitary figure in dark, remote landscapes, meticulously rendered in oversized realist paintings. These huge canvases are based on high-resolution images of Robinson himself wearing the anonymous bear suit in some of the furthest flung corners of the globe.

The intimate autobiographical paintings at the heart of Stacey Gillian Abe’s latest exhibition Shrub-let of Old Ayivu explore abstract memory, cultural lineage and shared identity, while confronting conventional depictions of the black body in a history of art framed by the ever-present spectre of colonialism. The intimate depictions of indigo-hued women at repose are characteristically personal in nature, drawing upon familial ties and cultural history in order to investigate womanhood

The acclaimed Indonesian artist Roby Dwi Antono is widely known for his depictions of dream-like parallel worlds inhabited by small children, crashed spacecraft, anomalies too bizarre to describe, and animal-human hybrids that have a penchant for peeling back their flesh to reveal internal organs. His paintings stylistically surf genres, such as classical renaissance, pop, lowbrow, anime and surrealism, with an effortless grace that denotes peerless talent, and it is no surprise that he has been exhibited to critical acclaim all over the globe.

The Scottish contemporary artist Robert Montgomery has spent the last twenty years carving a unique niche in conceptual art, lighting up various global locales with abstract and often surreal ‘visual poems’ that seek to inspire a moment of inner reflection and activate the apparatus of wonder. His large-scale public commissions transform both urban and remote spaces with profound statements of hope that transmit a magical sense of the phenomenology of the moment – providing the viewer with a welcome antidote to the oversaturated bombardment of advertising media.