The Radar: Lily Bloom, Patrick Quinn and Cécile Lempert
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In our monthly series, The Radar, we ask quick-fire questions to artists we’ve got our eye on. This roundup spotlights Lily Bloom, Patrick Quinn and Cécile Lempert

Patrick Quinn, frog in spoon, 2023, acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist
Lily Bloom

Lily Bloom, Three Knocks & A Kiss pt. 2, 2024. Courtesy the artist
London-born artist Lily Bloom works across self-portraiture and sculpture to explore themes of souvenir, memory and horror. Bloom’s work is playful and humorous yet grounded in personal mythologies, pop culture and history. Her work offers viewers recognisable signifiers paired with a stark reminder of the universal pain of grief that inevitably lies ahead.
Age: 31
Location: London, UK
Last dream you had: The Joker (from the Arkham Asylum game) was sitting at the end of my bed wanting a chat
Favourite exhibition: Donna Dennis at O’Flaherty’s in NYC
Favourite object you own: My grandma’s 101 Dalmatians Rolly figurine
Favourite art-world Instagram account: @problemchild.advisory
Favourite movie: Almost Famous, 2000
Favourite artwork: The queue for ‘Skull Island: Reign of Kong’ at Universal Studios, Orlando
Loves: KUKA arm coasters, souvenir cups, a conversation with a beloved friend, haunted houses, Flickr
Hates: Standoffishness, bad manners, closed hearts
End-of-year goals: Think new. Don’t overcomplicate heaven
Patrick Quinn

Patrick Quinn, call the cops, 2023. Courtesy the artist
American artist Patrick Quinn crafts surreal, dreamlike scenes rooted in humour and a desire for earnestness. Quinn’s painted and airbrushed works often feature animals, food and objects he has a personal connection to. He describes his succession of paintings as memes in a different format.
Age: 36
Location: New York City
Last dream you had: World peace, a global reckoning, a new direction for humanity
Favourite exhibition: ‘The Woods by God’ at Earth Gallery
Favourite object you own: My bike
Favourite art-world Instagram account: Mine is definitely the only good one
Favourite movie: The 9th Movie by Joel Haver, it just came out on YouTube
Favourite artwork: Richard Prince’s joke paintings. Some people describe my paintings as funny, and it makes me wonder if the paintings we look at from long ago were originally meant to be funny and we just lost the jokes over time. Like when you hear a joke it’s different but if you were to write it down and read it every day it wouldn’t funny anymore
Loves: All the good things
Hates: All the bad things
End-of-year goals: To complete the ‘read 1000 books challenge’
Cécile Lempert

Cécile Lempert, study of two eyes I, 2024. Photo: Mareike Tocha. Courtesy the artist
German artist Cécile Lempert works from photographic archives to create her paintings. Drawing from interpersonal relationships and family history, Lempert explores psychological states and questions of belonging. The often two-part compositions and narrow formats are reminiscent of film sequences and draw attention to intimate details: fleeting expressions, subtle hand gestures, the close-up of a face.
Age: 30
Location: Cologne, Germany
Last dream you had: I had one not so long ago about a city where the buildings communicated with each other via smoke or vapour
Favourite exhibition: Tacita Dean at Mudam Luxembourg in 2023 and Otto Dix at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg in 2024
Favourite object you own: A ribbon my son gave to me last weekend or a pearl necklace that belonged to my partner’s great-grandmother
Favourite art-world Instagram account: @grazyna.g_a
Favourite movie: The Winter Guest, 1997
Favourite artwork: My two favorites are Pisanello’s Saint George and the Princess fresco at Sant’Anastasia in Verona and a paper work from Paula Modersohn-Becker, Sitzendes Mädchen mit Profil nach links
Loves: Vegan Czech food, Mary Halverson, Josephine Foster and Schumann’s Lieder, when my partner reads to me (David Copperfield, Malina, A Series of Unfortunate Events), going hiking with Thilo S. and my children, drinking coffee with the Kaffeerunde at the PiKa in Cologne
Hates: Authoritarianism, para-religious superstitions, conservative misinformation
End-of-year goals: To play the first and second movements of the Old Suite by Max Reger together with my partner on the violin