> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Radar No. 12 – Shortlist Artist Signal - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/the-shortlist-signal-artist-radar-12/ - Published: 2025-10-08T08:10:51.000Z - Updated: 2026-02-09T09:56:01.000Z - Description: Radar No. 12 spotlights Ju Aichinger, Kumkum Fernando, and Hetty Douglas three artists shaping painting and sculpture with fragility, myth, and raw expression. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Context We share with you from our [**Ask Kurt Artist Picks**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/tag/artist-in-focus/): Ju Aichinger, Kumkum Fernando, and Hetty Douglas. Vienna’s painter [**Ju Aichinger**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/ju-aichinger/) turns fragile atmospheres into gestures that dissolve bodies into space. Sri Lankan-Austrian sculptor [**Kumkum Fernando**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/kumkum-fernando-robots-mythology-and-memory/) builds mythological robots from wood and memory, icons that link cosmology with the future. London’s [**Hetty Douglas**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/hetty-douglas/) strips painting down to raw marks and fragments, creating canvases that feel both immediate and vulnerable. --- ### Ju Aichinger – Painting and Installation from Vienna [**Ju Aichinger’s practice** ](https://www.catapult-platform.art/ju-aichinger/)moves between painting and installation, staging fragile worlds where figures dissolve into atmospheric space. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/ju-aichinger.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/ju-aichinger-wall-installation.jpg) ****Ju Aichinger |** Images courtesy the artist.t: Recent exhibitions include her artist statement at this year [**Parallel Art Fair**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/parallel-vienna/). Follow Ju Aichinger on [**Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/nur%5F%5Fju/?ref=catapult-platform.art) for painterly gestures that hover between intimacy and distance. --- ### Kumkum Fernando – Sculpture from Colombo/Vienna [**Kumkum Fernando**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/kumkum-fernando-robots-mythology-and-memory/) builds mythological robots from wood and pigment, hybrid icons drawn from South Asian cosmology and childhood memory. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/kumkum-fernando-infront-of-his-robot.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/9_kumkumfernando_27th-century-cabinet.jpg) ****Kumkum Fernando** | Images courtesy of the artist His sculptures connect the intimacy of handcraft with futuristic archetypes, recently exhibited at institutions such as MAK Vienna and galleries across Asia and Europe. Follow Kumkum Fernando on [**Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/kumkumfernando/?ref=catapult-platform.art) to enter a universe of mythology, ritual, and invention. --- ### Hetty Douglas – Painting from London [**Hetty Douglas**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/hetty-douglas/) works with pared-down canvases where muted tones and raw text fragments act as portraits of everyday life. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/mini_magick20250706-14394-wx7yzk.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/mini_magick20250703-14372-yu8euf.jpg) ****Hetty Douglas** | Images courtesy the artist Her visual language borrows from graphic design, graffiti, and abstraction, creating direct but vulnerable registers of expression. Exhibited widely across the UK, her practice speaks to immediacy and intimacy. Follow Hetty Douglas on [**Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/hettydouglas/?ref=catapult-platform.art) for paintings that balance grit and tenderness. --- Three distinct practices, three sharp voices, together shaping how we look, sense, and imagine. Explore the work of Ju Aichinger, Kumkum Fernando, and Hetty Douglas, learn more, and head to their articles. --- ## More Artists to watch: [Bety Krňanská: She Drives the Frame NowBety Krňanská turns car parts, lace, and leather into feminist sculpture that redefines control and softness![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-329.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/bety-kr--ansk----artist-1.jpg)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/bety-krnanska-she-drives-the-frame-now/) [Kallirroi Ioannidou on view at Galerie Mellies - DetmoldDiscover Greek/German Artist Kallirroi Ioannidou at Galerie Mellies, Detmold - Like Kids on a New Planet opens a material deep dive into fragility, form, and the space between thought and presence.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-330.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/mellies-gallery--detmold-1.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/kallirroi-ioannidou-galerie-mellies/)