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Ep. 11 Kristin Hjellegjerde

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Ep. 11 Kristin Hjellegjerde

Portrait of Kristin Hjellegjerde in her london gallery space

Photo – Erica Bergsmeds | Makeup – Ninni Marklund

Gallerist and curator Kristin Hjellegjerde joins us for the Delphian Podcast this week. Known for its multicultural curatorial approach the gallery quickly gained recognition for exhibiting a roster of innovative, international artists since its inception in 2012. Kristin has galleries in both London and Berlin as well as a new London project space which will also be expanding in 2021.

We talk about the way in which she finds artists and how artists can make themselves more visible to galleries, the importance of networking, collaboration between galleries, and advice to young curators. We also touch upon the sometimes prohibitive cost of art fairs and how this affects a gallery’s decisions on their programming. 

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Ep. 10 Jordy Kerwick

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Ep. 10 Jordy Kerwick

Portrait of Jordy Kerwick the Australian painter

In this episode of the Delphian Podcast we catch up with our friend Jordy Kerwick, who has previously exhibited with Delphian Gallery, in his hotel room in London. We chatted to the Australian born, French based artist about his work, the role of social media in the art world, outsider art, and the importance of artists thinking of themselves as a business. 

You can also see our past exhibition, Diary of an Introvert, with Jordy here.

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Ep. 09 Sunyoung Hwang

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Ep. 09 Sunyoung Hwang

South Korean, London based abstract artist Sunyoung Hwang is this weeks Delphian Podcast guest. We talk about her practice, the benefits of artist residencies and the transition from eduction to professional practice. 

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Habitual Submission – Rhiannon Salisbury

Habitual Submission – Rhiannon Salisbury

Delphian Gallery is delighted to present ‘Habitual Submission’, a solo show by London-based artist, Rhiannon Salisbury. Her work investigates the glossy representation of women to expose an absurd dystopian reality of the capitalist dream.

Her process begins from selecting through an archive of advertisement imagery sourced through high-end beauty campaigns online and magazines. The resulting paintings show the disturbance caused by the social pressures born of the mass media machine. The images morph into a synthetic chaotic mush which seeks to simultaneously allure and repel the viewer. In decontextualizing the original image through the subjective lens of painting, Salisbury engages with an otherwise unobtainable dialogue of beauty.

Inspired by serious literary and philosophical works such as The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Rhiannon decontextualises and distorts the vernacular image in such a way to render it eerily familiar, yet entirely alien.

‘Habitual Submission’ aims to disrupt and reclaim the omnipresent space these luxurious images occupy – a feminist manifesto for our current times.

Rhiannon was the overall winner of our second Delphian Open Call, beating over 10,000 entries.

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Exhibition Runs: 27th September – 8th October


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Una Ursprung

Una Ursprung

Una Ursprung was born in Taiwan and now lives and works in Basel, Switzerland.

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.

Portrait of artist Una Ursprung in her studio
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Igor Moritz

Igor Moritz

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.

He is an artist we have worked with since we launched in 2018, being one of the winners of our ’18 Open Call and has gone from strength to strength since then. 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 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. This particular body of work is his strongest yet, and the way he renders the subjects (often intimate friends of his) in a distorted yet beautiful way calls to mind artists such as Egon Schiele and Henri Matisse.

Our assertion that he is an exciting and important artist is not because we are showing his work, rather the opposite: we are showing his work because he is an exciting and important artist. We see very big things in Igor’s career, and indeed these are already starting to happen. Still in his twenties, it won’t be long before he is a household name. We are very honoured to have been working with Igor from such an early stage of his career, and feel very lucky to be hosting his debut UK solo show. 

Portrait of artist Igor Moritz in his studio
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Florence Hutchings

Florence Hutchings

Florence Hutchings is an exciting emerging artist who was born in 1996 in Kent, UK and is currently based in London. She has been awarded the Lynn Painters Stainers Prize and was the winner of the Delphian Open Call 2018. Working from techniques from life drawing, the domestic and repetition, she paints still life’s that depict everyday settings.

Florence opened her debut solo exhibition, Seating Arrangement with Delphian Gallery in September 2018.

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

Rhiannon Salisbury

Rhiannon Salisbury

London based artist Rhiannon Salisbury’s work investigates the glossy representation of women to expose an absurd dystopian reality of the capitalist dream.

Her process begins from selecting through an archive of advertisement imagery sourced through high-end beauty campaigns online and magazines. The resulting paintings show the disturbance caused by the social pressures born of the mass media machine. The images morph into a synthetic chaotic mush which seeks to simultaneously allure and repel the viewer. In decontextualising the original image through the subjective lens of painting, Salisbury engages with an otherwise unobtainable dialogue of beauty.

Inspired by serious literary and philosophical works such as The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Rhiannon decontextualises and distorts the vernacular image in such a way to render it eerily familiar, yet entirely alien.

Rhiannon was the overall winner of our second Delphian Open Call, beating over 10,000 entries.

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

Ep. 08 Rowan Newton

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Ep. 08 Rowan Newton

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South London born painter Rowan Newton joins us for this episode of The Delphian Podcast where we talk about his debut solo exhibition, Fractured Integrity, with Jealous Gallery as well as surviving as an artist, the role and state of art fairs in London and his own podcast Art Proof.

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Ep. 07 Rhiannon Salisbury

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Ep. 07 Rhiannon Salisbury

London based artist and the winner of the Delphian Open Call 2019 Rhiannon Salisbury is our guest for this episode of the Delphian Podcast. We sit down in her East London studio to talk about her work, the role that advertising imagery plays in her paintings, whether or not artists have a responsibility to teach the world something through their work and many other things that feed into her practice.  

rhiannonrsalisbury.net/

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