Seven years at Dazed, youth workshops in West London, a newsletter spotlighting the best new image-makers. Ashleigh Kane doesn't look at CVs — she looks at the work.

She lives between the sea and the mountains in northern Italy and says nothing is missing. Sandra Lazzarini's photography begins with an image that surfaces fully formed — surrealist, instinctive, deeply personal.

He draws figures that turn their backs. He circles them with thick coal lines — their territory staked out, the viewer delivered. And in 2020, Austrian artist Stylianos Schicho began to feel something deeply strange: his paintings were starting to look like the news. A conversation on blindspots, the lighthouse keeper, and why the owl can never close its wings.