I’m Bekithemba Ncube (T.U.B.E.), a Nottingham and Liverpool based artist working across ink, acrylic, watercolour, oil paint, pencil, collage, and found studio materials. My practice is rooted in what I call Emotional Cubism: a visual language that uses fragmentation, abstraction, and structure to translate emotion into form without softening or cleaning it up. I’m interested in pressure, memory, endurance, identity, and the tension between what is felt internally and what can actually be made visible. I studied a Foundation Year in Art & Design at Nottingham College and later completed a BSc in Computer Science. That combination continues to shape the way I work. I think about emotion not only as feeling, but also as structure, pattern, repetition, breakdown, and recovery. The work often exists between control and collapse, where logic and emotion are both active at the same time. My paintings and mixed-media works have been shown in exhibitions including Abstract Art at Open Gallery in Halifax (2025), Entangled Geographies: Displacement, Belonging, and the Spaces In Between with CISTA ARTS (2025), and Thresholds: Moments That Changed Everything with CISTA ARTS (2025). Earlier recognition includes being Winner of the Young Creative Awards 2021 and Runner-up in 2022. At the centre of my practice is a need to make honest records: works that hold bruise, contradiction, and survival in plain sight.