Tori Pounds (UK, 1995) is an English painter based in West Sussex. Her works encounter the alien and the familiarity of nostalgic items and snapshots of time, a game of cat and mouse between the real and surreal, all characterised through layering techniques of oil paint on canvas. In her work, semi-surreal paintings explore the way in which objects can hold memory and the ultimate unreliability
of looking back. Visuals are cropped and blurred to encourage the viewer to fill in the gaps with their own nostalgia.