Taste Contemporary is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by the UK painter Ben Sadler that features all twenty-four works from the artist’s 2024 series, You and I, as well as pieces from a 2025 body of work, Exclamations!

Charming, and sometimes amusing, these portraits of imagined people are full of personality, suggesting eclectic states of mind and varying degrees of intrigue. For Sadler, the starting point for these works was the idea of ‘the different layers of things happening at an exhibition opening, where there’s the work, there’s the space, there’s the person in the space, and then there’s that shared space of talking to each other.’ Viewing these imagined exhibition goers, we are drawn into their world; who are they, where do they come from, what thoughts are going through their minds? Sometimes staring at the viewer, sometimes averting their gaze, they are pensive and reflective. Lost in their own thoughts, these figures have a timeless quality.