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Papier – Group Exhibition

Papier – Group Exhibition

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Vernissage: 23 Septembre | 14h – 21h

Exposition: 23 Septembre – 5 Novembre

Adresse: 21 Rue des Chaillis, 16140 Ligné

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On nous demande souvent quels sont les artistes dans lesquels nous pensons qu’il faut investir aujourd’hui, et cette exposition est notre réponse à cette question.

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Pour cette exposition, un groupe diversifié d’artistes internationaux s’est réuni pour présenter un grand nombre de nouvelles œuvres dans le sud de la France. De nombreux artistes ont réalisé leurs œuvres spécifiquement pour cette exposition, en s’inspirant du paysage et de l’histoire de la région.

Tous les participants ont été sélectionnés pour leur approche innovante et unique de la création artistique, ainsi que pour notre propre enthousiasme à l’idée d’exposer leurs œuvres. L’exposition comprend plus de 50 œuvres sur papier, toutes de trois tailles différentes.

Ces limitations d’échelle et de support ont encouragé les artistes à travailler plus délicatement, ce qui a donné lieu à des œuvres très intimes et réfléchies qui, dans de nombreux cas, se démarquent de l’œuvre habituelle des artistes.

En réponse à la crise du coût de la vie et aux pressions que beaucoup subissent, toutes les œuvres de l’exposition ont été mises à un prix modeste de £500, ce qui donne l’occasion aux collectionneurs d’ajouter une pièce à leur collection parmi cette brillante brochette d’artistes avant qu’il ne soit
trop tard.

On nous demande souvent quels sont les artistes dans lesquels nous pensons qu’il faut investir aujourd’hui, et cette exposition est notre réponse à cette question.

Artistes exposants: Adèle Aproh, Amy Beager, Anuk Rocha, B.D. Graft, Ben Crase, Benedict Stenning, Benjamin Murphy, Cathy Tabbakh, David Gardner, David Iain Brown, Elizabeth Power, Ellen Starr Lyon, Erin Armstrong, Flora Castiglia, Frankie Thorp, Gill Button, Harriet Gillet, Hélène Delmaire, Holly Halkes, Ian Healy, Jaakko Mattila, Joana Galego, Julien Jaca, Katy Papineau, Kay Gasei, Kevin Sabo, Kévin Taïbi, Kim Somervuori, Luna Sue Huang, Madi, Margo Sarkisova, Matt Graysmith, Naomi Boiko-Stapleton, Natalie Savage, Nettie Wakefield, Nettle Grellier, Nick JS Thompson, Offune Azinge, Phoebe Boddy, Rachel McCully, Raffael Bader, Rhiannon Salisbury, Rose Electra Harris, Rowley Haynes, Rune Christiensen, Sabrina Brouwers, Salomé Wu, Seline burn, Sumuyya, Sunyoung Hwang, Tim Fowler

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Relax, the universe is expanding – David Shillinglaw

Relax, the universe is expanding – David Shillinglaw

Portrait of artist Davis Shillinglaw painting a canvas in his studio in margate

We are excited to host the launch of David Shillinglaw‘s new book “Relax, the universe is expanding”, and an exhibition of new works to accompany it.

David Shillinglaw explores the conflicted, messy human condition: a relentless need for control within a disordered world. His vibrant, vital paintings present a tumultuous system in which natural forms, freely connected words and human features both burst from and are contained within grids, boxes and organised lines.

This book—the most expansive the British artist has published to date—provides an overview of his joyful, exploratory practice. Shillinglaw’s paintings, sketches, and sculptures are brought together with texts that have inspired him, to offer insights into how he navigates his own chaos and tries to make sense of life on Earth.


Details

Private View: 2nd September | 12pm – 8pm

Exhibition Runs: 3rd September – 5th September

Address: 25 Henrietta Street, London, WC2E 8NA


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“The universe is expanding, apparently. To be honest, I don’t fully understand what that means. It creates more questions for me than answers. Expanding into what? I get lost thinking about it. All my work is about describing space: the internal space of my mind; the organs and systems under my skin; the physical spaces I inhabit, from rooms, to gardens and trains. This stretches out to the internet or cyber space, the space of a city, a country or continent—the planet as a whole. Perhaps the hardest to comprehend is ‘outer space’. I find it almost impossible to imagine its dark vastness. I find something compelling about trying to explore these ideas through drawing, painting and collage. Like a caveman scratching a constellation on a muddy wall, I construct maps to navigate impossible terrains.

I am lost somewhere between all of these spaces, never quite arriving in one or able to disconnect from another, and that’s ok with me. We all inhabit these places simultaneously. The collisions and overlapping of spaces feed and inform my work: the micro and macro, the physical and psychological, the real and imagined. I am in awe, fuelled by forces of nature, natural phenomena, emergence and entropy, volcanos and tornados, sunlight and water, blood cells and fungus. The universal funk. The cosmic ooze. When it feels daunting or overwhelming, I just tell myself: “Relax. The universe is expanding.”

David Shillinglaw

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Following Nature – Una Ursprung

Following Nature – Una Ursprung

Una Ursprung was born in Taiwan and now lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. Following Nature, will be Una’s first ever solo show in the UK, following her inclusion in our #LockdownEditions initiative during the first lockdown in 2020.

Her work features a combination of oil painted serene and calm natural imagery with contrasting and sometimes chaotic abstract shapes rendered in spray paint directly over the top. The interplay between these two approaches to mark-making gives her work an ethereal feeling of separation: the canvas is both a portal to another world and a plane on which the abstract gestures are captured. It is as if the window through which we gaze upon these scenes of nature has been vandalised, and we are viewing outwards from within. Perhaps trapped.

The landscapes are earthy and subtle, and the gestures on top playfully vibrant. The interaction created is one of disquiet, as if the idyllic environment harbours something else. We are not viewing a utopian landscape but one that is perhaps more real and more honest.

This suggestion of the boundary places us very much behind the glass, as if we are the exhibits looking outward, gazing upon nature from inside our disordered and vandalised world. Humanity’s position as the blight upon the environment is especially noticeable in 2021 – the year of pandemics, flash floods, and wildfires. In creating these timeless yet immediately relevant works Una is forcing the viewer to look beyond the beauty we see around us, and to question what effect we are having upon it.


Details

Exhibition Runs: 17th August – 28th August

Address: 25 Henrietta Street, London, WC2E 8NA


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4 Year Anniversary – Group Exhibition

4 Year Anniversary – Group Exhibition

It’s been a wild ride these last 4 years. From our very humble beginnings that were curating a single show in a Whitechapel basement, Delphian has become something bigger and better than we ever could have imagined.

We started the gallery with no real goal in mind for where it might end up. We had no business plan, no marketing team, and no outside investment – and we still don’t.

Delphian was the result of a sincere passion for art, and a desire to use our own creativity to organise ways in which the amazing artists and artists we were discovering could be seen by the public, and nothing more.

Since then we have been very fortunate to have curated 20 exhibitions including sell out shows with Igor Moritz, Florence Hutchings, Jordy Kerwick and Bertrand Fournier. Alongside these we have curated large-scale solo and group exhibitions including Antisocial Isolation at The Saatchi Gallery. Our first book Navigating The Art World: Professional Practice For The Early Career Artist was released in 2020 and is now blowing our minds by being available in crazy places such as the Tate Galleries and Waterstones bookshop.

Our first semi-permanent space opened in Covent Garden this summer, and we have an intense schedule of back-to-back shows planned between now and winter. As well as a few external shows including this year’s Delphian Open Call, which is hosted in partnership with Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop in West London.

This current show brings together some familiar names with whom we have worked in the past, as well as some new faces that we look forward to working with in the future.


Details

Exhibition Runs: 6th August – 14th August

Address: 25 Henrietta Street, London, WC2E 8NA

Artists: Benjamin Murphy, Darren John, Debora Koo, Florence Hutchings, Francisco Mendes Moreira, Galina Munroe, George Lloyd-Jones + Nettle Grellier, Juliana Julieta, Kevin Perkins, Kevin Sabo, Lucia Ferrari, Matt Macken, Nicholas burns, Nick JS Thompson, Rebecca Sammon, Remi Rough, Rhiannon Salisbury, Shaqúelle Whyte, Carson Lancaster, Dzvinya Podlyashetska


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femininity – Rhiannon Salisbury

femininity – Rhiannon Salisbury

femininity

Noun [ U ]   usually approving

UK /ˌfem.əˈnɪn.ə.ti/ US /ˌfem.əˈnɪn.ə.t̬i/

the fact or quality of having characteristics that are traditionally thought to be typical of or suitable for a woman.

Rhiannon’s new body of work deals with the different faces of femininity that she perceives in the world around her today, and the restrictive and uncomfortable boundaries that are inflicted on people by cultural paradigms of gender.

Rhiannon’s source material comes from a multitude of mass media, from contemporary sources (such as social media) to fine art and vintage magazines. 

Through her distortion and abstraction of these images she is exploring representations and structures of femininity as it is presented to us. Her works deconstruct notions of the feminine, as well as critique the structures that reinforce paradigms of representation.

The works have all been created with her signature approach of pouring and painting, giving the works a textured and visceral feel that is both beautiful and grotesque. Melting surfaces and anamorphic forms blur and distort representation into an almost-overpowering abstraction. Her intuitive and haptic explorations with the medium allows for serendipitous forms and textures to emerge. 

Layers proliferate on top of one another in clusters like bacteria. Apathy and destruction contrast sharply with humour and exploration. There is something unhealthy and viral about the appearance of the paint itself, which is mirrored both in the unhealthiness of the system that presents femininity to us in the way it does, as well as the viral nature of how images are now shared.

The colour palette moves from pale and sickly-sweet pastels through to more violent and bloody pinks, reds, and purples.

These works push further into the boundaries of abstraction and disintegration and are a step further removed from the original source material than her earlier works. In turn they reveal more of the artist’s psyche and have a deeper emotional charge.


Details

Exhibition Runs: 18th July – 1st August

Address: 25 Henrietta Street, London, WC2E 8NA


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Pulling Faces – Igor Moritz

Pulling Faces – Igor Moritz

Artist Igor Moritz in his studio making works on paper

Igor Moritz (B. 1996, Poland) is perhaps one of the most exciting early-career artists working today. In 2020 he was listed as one of the most in-demand artists on Artsy, alongside Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

His work focuses on the seemingly ambiguous moments of silence that often come into existence in the presence of the other (and occasionally even with oneself). The presence of these pauses feed the paintings with a sense of uncertainty and anticipation. Moritz uses colour, morphs space, and distorts the emotionally-packed human figures in order to show a clash of their inner and outer life.

He is an artist we have presented in 5 shows since we launched in 2018, and this is his first ever UK solo show. In 2019 we hosted a two person show with Igor Moritz and Kevin Perkins entitled A Long Way From Home, for which he created multiple canvases and works on paper. His large canvas Keeping Time was one of the first to sell in our show Antisocial Isolation at the Saatchi Gallery in London in 2020-21.

His signature technique of conte-on-paper drawings is something that has captivated us at Delphian ever since we came across them, and so when the opportunity to host Igor’s debut UK solo show arose we knew we wanted works on paper. Whilst his oil on canvas works are more theatrical, the works on paper are more spontaneous, voyeuristic, and subtle. The introspective beauty present in these everyday scenes is one of calm quietude, as even when amongst others each subject in these works looks lost to themselves they remain present in their environment.

This particular body of work is his strongest yet, and the way he renders the subjects (often intimate friends of his, as well as himself) in a distorted yet beautiful way calls to mind artists such as Egon Schiele and Henri Matisse. The intimacy with which he depicts these subjects is one that is not afraid of distortion to create (or capture) emotion. In a similar vein to Francis Bacon Moritz captures the rawness of the interaction first, often not compromising this vision even if this renders the subject distorted and unrecognisable to all but Igor himself. His diaristic method of working presents the viewer with a snapshot into the artist’s life, giving us a deeper understanding not only of the work and its inspirations, but also of the artist.


Details

Exhibition Runs: 24th June – 15th July

Address: 25 Henrietta Street, London, WC2E 8NA


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Origin – Group Exhibition

Origin

Since our genesis in 2018, Delphian has occupied a liminal and temporal space in the art world. Operating continuously in online spaces and planning temporary exhibitions from our kitchen. Intermittently, we have raised our heads above the parapet and hosted shows in physical locations, from The Saatchi Gallery to San Francisco. In this way we have created almost 20 exhibitions, including sell out shows from Florence Hutchings, Jordy Kerwick, and more. 

In June 2021, our first bricks-and-mortar space becomes a reality.

Being an artist-run gallery, we wanted to launch a gallery that is for artists and by artists. We identified elements of the artist/gallery relationship that we thought could be improved, and we acted to ensure that we were the type of gallery that worked for the artists, and not at the expense of them.

In 2020 as a response to the Covid19 pandemic we launched two initiatives to support artists during these trying times, firstly our Lockdown Editions project, for which released a new print each week for the duration of the first lockdown without taking a cut of the profits. In a time when the government was abandoning the arts and artists needed money more than ever, we raised over £20,000 for artists and didn’t take a share. The second project was our debut book Navigating The Art World: Professional Practice for the Early Career Artist, which can now be bought from book shops worldwide, including The Tate Gallery, the Saatchi Gallery, The Royal Academy, Waterstones, Foyles, and many more.

For six months this summer we will be taking over two floors of a grade 2 listed building designed by J.M. Brydon on Henrietta Street in Covent Garden, and hosting for the first time back-to-back shows continuously. Expect solo shows and group shows from some familiar Delphian names, as well as others who we have been excited to work with for some time.

Origin is the first of these shows, opening on Monday the 7th of June. It will showcase some of the most exciting artists working today.

Details

Exhibition Runs: 7th June – 21st June

Address: 25 Henrietta Street, London, WC2E 8NA

Artists include: Alexis Soul-Gray, Ally Rosenberg, Cathy Tabbakh, Cecilia Reeve, David Iain Brown, Frankie Thorpe, Galina Munroe, George Lloyd Jones, Hannah Lim, Ralph Hunter Menzes, Rhiannon Salisbury, Rose Electra harris, Spencer Shakespeare, Sunyoug Hwang.

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The front cover of Navigating The Art World art business book by Delphian Gallery

Open Call 2021 – Group Exhibition

Open Call 2021 – Winners Exhibition

Delphian Gallery’s Open Call is an annual free-to-enter online competition with the intention of discovering the most captivating and challenging work by emerging and early-career artists. This year’s judging was incredibly hard but we have managed to choose these 42 incredibly exciting artists for the 2021 winners exhibition.

As this year has been incredibly hard for artists, we have decided to include them in our #LockdownEditions artist support initiative which sees 100% of the profits going directly to the artist – we will not be taking a commission.

Limited edition prints will be available alongside the exhibition

Details

Exhibition Runs: 6th August – 15th August

Address: Unit 1, 1 Bard Rd, London W10 6TP

We are extremely excited to announce that this year’s open call exhibition will be held in partnership with one of our favourite London galleries, Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop at their beautiful space in West London.

Congratulations to all the selected winning artists!

Aleena Sharif

Alexis Soul-Gray

Andrew Meredith

Angelos Merges El Hewehi

Anna Lazareva

Arran Rahimian

Dalel Ouasli

Debora Koo

Ellen Starr Lyon

Ellie Wang

Frederique Matti

Ben Crase

Heidi Ukkonen

Itzik Mor

J de Konink

James Wood

Jan Rybníček

JJ Jarin

Joaquin Valdez Macher

Joel Gregory

Julia de Ruvo

Kaan Saatci

Lewinale Havette

Liang Fu

Luke Silva

Maeve van Klaveren

Manuel Bisson

Matthew Marshall

Michael & Chiyan Ho

Michael Kaul

Mirza Cizmic

Natalie Savage

Nejal Mehta

Rebecca Sammon

Robyn Carey

Salomé Wu

Shitanda

Sofia Seidi

Tempa

Una Ursprung

Yang-ha

Zachary Barnes

Images courtesy of Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, photos by @paultuckerstudio


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The front cover of Navigating The Art World art business book by Delphian Gallery

Open Call 2020 – Group Exhibition

Open Call 2020 – Winners Exhibition

Delphian Gallery’s Open Call is an annual free-to-enter online competition with the intention of discovering the most captivating and challenging work by emerging and early-career artists. With over 16,000 submissions from around the world, this year’s judging was incredibly hard!

Aided by last year’s overall winner Rhiannon Salisbury, alongside judges Henrik Uldalen, Kristin Hjellegjerde, Tabish Khan, Wingshan Smith, and ourselves, we whittled down the submissions to this incredibly strong lineup of exciting artists. 

Details

Exhibition Runs: 3rd December – 3rd January

2020 Overall Winner – Carlo D’Anselmi

As this year has been incredibly hard for artists, we have decided to include them in our #LockdownEditions artist support initiative which sees 100% of the profits going directly to the artist – we will not be taking a commission.

Limited Edition Prints

Artists include: Adrian Narvaez Caicedo, Anna Kay Sebastian, Ammar Syed, Amy Beager, Anne Torpe, Azadeh Ardalan, B Chehayeb, Carlo D’Anselmi, Connie Harrison, Danny Romeril, Delia D Hamer, Delphine Rama, Diana Zeng, Dzvinya Podlyashetska, Ege Subasi, Emeli Theander, Emi Avora, Georgia Grinter, Guus Smeulders, Hari Katragadda, Hazel Miller, Indiana Hoover, James Owens, Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson, Juliana Julieta, Katie Mullender, Lenia Hauser, Lisa Golightly, Massimiliano Usai, Michael Thompson Jr, Minyoung Choi, Mircea Teleaga, Plum Cloutman, Ralph Hunter-Menzies, Rebecca Brodskis, Rich Jones, Richard Ayodeji Ikhide, Thomas Mau, Tracey Slater


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The front cover of Navigating The Art World art business book by Delphian Gallery

Antisocial Isolation – Saatchi Gallery

Antisocial Isolation

Delphian Gallery presents ‘Antisocial Isolation’, a group exhibition at Saatchi Gallery, which brings together a collection of some of the most exciting early-career artists working today.

Artworks as records of history mediate the transitory space between what we experience and our shifting perceptions of those experiences. All of the works included have either been made during the current Covid19 pandemic, been made in response to it, or have developed new potential contexts when viewed from within it.

This exhibition is presented in a new liminal space which is neither isolated nor social. Embedded within each work are a myriad of shifting signifiers that are decoded afresh by each viewer, whose subjective lens endows the art with fluid meanings that are entirely unique.

The future will never be the same again. Here is now.

Details

Private View: 4th November

Exhibition Runs: 29th October – 29th November

Address: Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4RY

Artists include: Amy Beager, Anne Rothenstein, B.D. Graft, Benjamin Murphy, Danny Romeril, Enam Gbewonyo, Eva Hu, Florence Hutchings, Galina Munroe, George Lloyd-Jones, Igor Moritz, Jeroen Cremers, Jukka Virkkunen, Kadiya Qasem, Lian Zhang, Matt Macken, Minyoung Choi, Miranda Forrester, Moley Talhaoui, Nettle Grellier, Nick JS Thompson, Rhiannon Salisbury, Rosie Gibbens, Rosie McGinn, Sam Harris, Sunyoung Hwang, Valerie Savchits.

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