Sophie Barber, Kim and Kanye Kiss Without Tongues, 2021

Seeking out interesting new artists to follow? Look no further than our freshly compiled round-up of talented creators making a splash this September. This includes the British artist Sophie Barber, who “creates playful pieces on a variety of unstretched canvas sizes”, in the words of Ravi Ghosh. Her subjects range from “light commentaries on life along the English coastlines” to “celebrity studies on smartphone-sized canvases, [which] strip away stardom’s otherworldliness”—à la this impastoed rendering of Kim and Kanye, based on a Juergen Teller portrait. See the full list here.