Oli Epp (born) is one of the winners of the annual Graduate Prize awarded to selected MA fine art graduates from major London art colleges by Jealous Print Studio. Oli Epp's paintings and prints are informed by everyday experiences and observations. They are autobiographical; sometimes confessional, sometimes irreverent and frequently handled with a humorous sense of pathos. His work focuses on situations that involve himself, or others that he has witnessed, in public and private moments that pass by as unremarkable, at a glance. But documenting these unreported tragedies is, for him, an act of discovery. He wants his imagery to feel familiar to as many people as possible; to draw out the ridiculous comedy of certain shared rituals and behaviours. Epp's works begin by recording things he sees (or recalls) through simple line drawing to economise on the essence of the situation. He has created simplified humanoid characters, which lend a sort of parody of the real world in the way that cartoons do. These avatars have oversized heads and an absence of facial features, which is an exaggerated reflection on human interaction in the post digital age – these figures appear idiotically isolated, but adorned with earpieces, branded items of clothing and objects that are important to consumption and communication. Epp uses the visual language of branding and interplay between graphic and painterly surfaces to create optical confusion, echoing the way that our real and digital lives are merged.