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Meet the Aesthetica
Art Prize Winner: Tobi Onabolu

The winner of the 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize is Tobi Onabolu. We spoke to the artist about his practice and what it means to receive the award.

Moment Suspended

Brooke DiDonato’s images stretch the boundaries of what is possible, asking us to look at domestic settings, landscapes and everyday objects again.

Fragile Landscape

Ingrid Weyland harnesses scrunched-up paper as a metaphor for humanity’s impact on nature, overlaying forest scenes with twisted print-outs.

Creative Portraiture

Jordan Diomandé shows a masterful command of natural lighting, shooting at golden hour to capture sunlit reflections and dramatic shadows.

Playing in Colour

The imaginative contemporary photography of Dublin-based Sarah Doyle plays with shapes and colours, to offer up a joyful viewing experience.

Sense of Magic

Cig Harvey engages all five of our senses, with pictures that bring together bright floral motifs, domestic interiors and figures in the landscape.

Reflection:
The December / January Issue

The publication thoughtfully examines recent artistic breakthroughs and experiments while exploring possibilities for the future of creativity.

Legacy in Pictures

In Andoni Beristain’s hands, the camera becomes a tool for remembrance and healing, honouring love and loss through 63 symbolic compositions.

Human Expression

Klaus Vedfelt’s Elevate is an invitation to occupy open horizons, where dancers and acrobats rise and fall, jump and fly, against bright blue skies.

Urban Geometry

Blue tones, dark contrasts and buildings are the hallmarks of Marco Wilm’s visual style, finding symmetry and balance within busy cityscapes.

Routes Transform

Charting one artist’s journey from Florida, all the way to Maine, whilst examining the US landscape, as a site of mythmaking, nostalgia and fracture.

Alejandro Cartagena:
Ground Rules at SFMOMA

Alejandro Cartagena reveals how the camera can be used as a tool to probe questions surrounding urban expansion and public infrastructure in Mexico.

Seeds of Hate and Hope: Bearing Witness Through Art

A new show at Sainsbury Centre explores how seven different artists have witnessed, experienced and responded to conflicts with powerful artworks.

Witnessing the Ephemeral

Each year, the UK experiences an average of 156 days of rain. That’s almost every other day. It was during one of these downpours that…

Boundless Storytelling: The Visual Art of Lin Cheng

“You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.” These words from Margaret Atwood, author of The…

Meet the Aesthetica Art Prize
Shortlist: Brendan Dawes

Brendan Dawes is a British artist and designer renowned for his playful yet thought-provoking explorations of data, technology and objects

Movement, Memory and Meaning

Zorg (Yifan Jing) (b. 1998) is a London-based visual artist whose practice is grounded in field research. A graduate in illustration from Goldsmiths, University of…

Winter Exhibitions:
Five Shows to See

Our top five shows this winter encourage audiences to see the world from new and exciting perspectives, rewriting established and traditional narratives.

 The Power of Photography:
Reflections on the RPS Awards 2025

The winners of the 2025 RPS Awards have been announced. It is the world’s oldest photography prize, celebrating the very best of the medium.

Creative Legacies

In the final film of our MPB: The Next Shot series, director Theo Tennant reflects on how his camera shaped his BAFTA Cymru-winning documentary.

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