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Turning away from traditional painterly methods such as Realism, these artists disregard the need for optical illusionism, throwing away the ideas of beauty, perfection and normalcy for distorted images that embrace abnormality and change. More than the exaggeration of shapes, distortion takes many forms.

Whilst Nadia Attura uses her powerfully saturated colour palette to distort our perception of nature scenes, Dan Hillier, like Damien Hirst, digitally alters his images by repeating the use of faces, wings and limbs and use contortion as his main method of distortion. Nick Smith and Takashi …