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PAUSE Highlights: Visual Artists You Need to Know Right Now

Artists Redefining the Visual Landscape in 2025.

At the intersection of art, fashion, and identity, a new generation of visual artists is reshaping the landscape of contemporary creativity. They dissolve boundaries between disciplines, weaving colour, texture, culture and technology into narratives that reflect who we are and the world we are moving towards. Their work may spans mediums and continents, but the true takeaway from this article reflects a single thread that unites them: a bold embrace of emotion, relentless experimentation, and a vision anchored in the possibilities of tomorrow.

Prince Gyasi

Prince Gyasi (@princejyesi) is a Ghanaian visual artist whose work bursts with colour, emotion, and life. Using photography and digital manipulation, he transforms everyday scenes and portraits into striking, almost dreamlike images, where saturated hues and bold contrasts tell stories of identity, community, and hope.

Adébayo Bolaji

Adébayo Bolaji (@adebayobolajii) is a London-born multidisciplinary artist whose work draws on his Nigerian (Yoruba) heritage to explore identity, memory, and the human form. Primarily working in painting, he combines figurative and abstract techniques, layering texture, colour, and gesture to create works that feel both intimate and expansive.

Zandra Jack

Zandra Jack,(@unkwnzj), is a Toronto-born digital and multimedia artist making waves for her bold, boundary-pushing work. Her practice explores identity, culture, and self-expression, blending immersive visuals, motion graphics, and experimental digital techniques to create pieces that are both striking and thought-provoking.

Reem Al Jeally

Reem Al Jeally (@reemaljeally) is a Sudanese architect, designer, and visual artist whose work reflects social change, women’s issues in Sudan, and her personal experiences. Based between Khartoum and Cairo, she creates striking paintings on canvas and in open spaces while also curating exhibitions that highlight Sudanese contemporary art.

Yasmeena Abdullah

Yasmeena Abdullah (@yasmeenaabdullahart) is a Sudanese painter based in Khartoum. Her work transforms everyday objects into vessels of memory, emotion, and storytelling, using furniture, fruit, light, and even crumbs as symbols that carry deeper meaning. Abdullah’s paintings explore the rhythms of life, the passage of time, and the subtle truths hidden in ordinary moments. With a focus on female perspective and insight, her art encourages viewers to look beyond the surface, inviting reflection on the layered narratives and emotions that shape human experience.

Ksenia Filippova

Ksenia Filippova, (@filippova.artist), based in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, is a visual artist who captures life in public spaces, from streets and parks to cafés and boulevards. People and their interactions remains at the heart of her work, adding movement, colour, and story to each scene. Drawn to the Mediterranean, they have painted in Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, and Morocco, bringing everyday moments to life on canvas.

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