Chantal Joffe

As anyone who has seen her everyday figures lining Whitechapel’s Elizabeth Line platform will know, Chantal Joffe pays attention. Though her paintings are cartoonish and sometimes distorted, she faithfully renders the intricacies of expression. A sidelong glance, a furrowed brow, the specific placement of a hand: it’s in these easy-to-miss details that her sensitive portraits come to life. This exhibition at Victoria Miro will focus on a new body of paintings of friends and fellow artists, made in London and Venice.