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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

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.  

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Ep. 06 David Shillinglaw

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Ep. 06 David Shillinglaw

David Shillinglaw

We join artist David Shillinglaw in his studio in Margate for this edition of the Delphian Podcast to talk about his work, painting murals around the world and the importance of play in art. We also talk about his side project Dirty Paradise which he runs along with others which has been making appearances over the past few years, bringing artists together from all corners of the globe! 

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Ep. 05 Chiara Williams

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Ep. 05 Chiara Williams

For episode 5 of the Delphian Podcast, we catch up with Chiara Williams, an artist, gallerist and educator. We talk to her about her time running WW Gallery from her home in East London, to guerilla shows at the Venice Biennale and starting the SOLO Award at London Art Fair.

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Divergent Motion – Group Exhibition

Divergent Motion

Delphian Gallery is pleased to present Divergent Motion, our first annual summer group show featuring artists working across painting, drawing, collage, and sculpture.

Our summer show provides the opportunity to continue a visual conversation with previously exhibited artists by showcasing their new work alongside other exciting contemporary artists whom we have yet had the pleasure to show.

In this exhibition, divergent practices are unified by a sense of unruly expression.

Participating artists include:

Florence Hutchings, Jesse Draxler, Francisco Mendes Moreira, Cannon Dill, Benjamin Murphy, Beth Rodway, Klaus Is Koming, Jerry Kowalski, Cathy Tabbakh, Paul Weiner, Galina Munroe, Jake Grewal, Claire Johnson, Tess Williams, Mike Ballard, Nick JS Thompson, Rusudan Khizanishvili and Lou Ros.

Exhibition Runs: 26th July – 19th August


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Ep. 04 Andrew Salgado

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Ep. 04 Andrew Salgado

Portrait of Canadian painter Andrew Salgado

We sit down with long time Delphian friend and Beers London artist Andrew Salgado at his London studio. Andrew, a Canadian painter has been based in London for a long time now and we and discuss social media, politics and theory in art as well as consistency in an artists output.

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Ep. 03 Rosalind Davis

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Ep. 03 Rosalind Davis

In episode 3 of The Delphian Podcast we talk to artist, curator and author Rosalind Davis. In her personal work, Rosalind produces multi-disciplinary works about the transformation of space. She has also been the permanent curator at Collyer Bristow Gallery in London since 2016 and has curated over 30 exhibitions to date. In 2016 she co-authored the book “What they didn’t teach you at art school” with Annabel Tilley and she is a regular lecturer at universities, galleries and organisations across the country.

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Ep. 02 Andy Dixon

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Ep. 02 Andy Dixon

Portrait of Canadian painter Andy Dixon in his downtown LA studio in front of paintings.

In this episode Delphian are in downtown LA at Andy Dixon’s studio. Andy, a Canadian painter, now based in LA talks about growing up in Vancouver, his background in music and DIY bands and how that led him into the art world.

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ANTIHERO – Benjamin Murphy

ANTIHERO – Benjamin Murphy

ANTIHERO is British artist Benjamin Murphy’s 6th solo exhibition, and his 2nd in Helsinki following 2016’s ‘Vile Oblivion’.

ANTIHERO, however, marks a stark departure from what we already know, or think we know, of Benjamin and his work. Having spent much of his artistic career occupying a rare and liminal position within the conventional art world at large, his work bearing the hallmarks of many artistic movements and trends and yet never being fully identified or categorized within them, Benjamin has decided to eschew all preconceived expectations and assumptions about his work.


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