chthonia
Arusha Gallery
31st August 2022 - 02nd October 2022
The Greater Mysteries at Eleusis was celebrated annually in the month of Boedromion (September– October) – the very same time that Rhiannon Salisbury’s exhibition ‘Chthonia’ opens to public. May this celebration of art open paths for looking closely and attentively, for journeying and connecting, for reclaiming the vegetal and the feminist power seeping through the cracks in earth and through the cracks in paint alike. We often think the greatest possible achievement is to come up with everything ourselves, to be inventive and creative, to put our stamp on the world – artistic or otherwise. But there are those who consider that the greatest achievement is to listen, to bring into the world what no one else is able to hear, sense, and see. Into the humdrum of the ordinary existence artists like Rhiannon can bring something extraordinary and magical: not the kind of magic that might provide a short- lived sensorial escape from the tedium of existence, but a totally different kind, far more mysterious and infinitely more real.
– Aliya Say, 2022
femininity
DELPHIAN GALLERY
17th July - 1st August 2021
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.
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.
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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.
︎ Delphian Gallery
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ANTISOCIAL ISOLATION
SAATCHI GALLERY x DELPHIAN GALLERY
19 MAY - 20 JUNE 2021
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.
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ANCIENT DEITIES
Curated by Rhiannon R. Salisbury & Arusha Gallery
Lena Brazin |Charlotte Edey | Billy Fraser | Jake Grewal | Byzantia Harlow | Alia Hamaoui | Rebecca Harper | Norman Hyams|Matt Macken | Lindsey Mendick |Tahmina Negmat | Paige Perkins|Leo Robinson |Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury | Victor Seaward | Jessica Wetherly| Michaela Yearwood-Dan | Ella Walker
'God-images and artworks alike can be the results of material converted through creative labour into something embodied, or auratic, something almost autonomous and expressive. Within Indian cultures, gods - for example stone gods - subsist in the material that represents them: the concept of mūrti, meaning embodiment, gives statues life. Stone gods are not symbols, but manifestations. A god-image is a mnemonic tool, a material interface, carrying the connotation of a communion with the material world, and also an affirmation of the quasi-divine animative potential involved in the act of making things. Labour, the metabolism between nature and humanity, is given a human face.'
Material Gods by Hussein Mitha
“Old gods never really die; they only wait to be awoken in a new time”
America Gods, Neil Gaiman
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Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury
b. 1984
Lives and works in London
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EDUCATION
2016 - 2018
Turps Banana: Studio Painter
Darbyshire Prize For Emerging Artist’s Recipient
2015 - 2016
MAFA Chelsea College of Art
John Hoyland Scholarship Recipient
AWARDS
Rome Art Program Scholarship
Rome, Italy
2013
John Hoyland Scholarship
Chelsea College of Art
2015
Darbyshire Prize For Emerging Art
presented by Darbyshire Ltd. & Turps Banana
2018
Overall Delphian Open Call Winner
Delphian Gallery
2019
SPACE Artists Grant
2020
RESIDENCIES
Clovermill Residency
The Netherlands
October 2022
Collective Ending Inaugural Studio Member
London
2019 - 2020
Absent Minded Residency
organised by Alia Hamaoui & Collective Ending
Galliac, France
2019
Panorama Residency
Chelsea College of Art
Guadalajara, Mexico
2016
CURATION
The Eyes Of The Night Creatures
Delphian Gallery x Artsy
Curated by Rhiannon Salisbury
December 2021
Shadi Al-Atallah I Jeanine Brito I Nell Brookfield I Bill Daggs I Ariane Heloise Hughes I James Lincoln I Holly Mills I Sophie Ruigrok I Rhiannon Salisbury I Dennis Scholl I Tomas Harker I Jennifer Smith I Marlene Steyn
Ancient Deities
Arusha Gallery
Curated by Rhiannon Salisbury
September 2020
Artists: Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury | Leo Robinson | Paige Perkins | Byzantia Harlow | Matt Macken | Norman Hyams | Victor Seaward | Lindsey Mendick | Jake Grewal | Lena Brazin | Ella Walker | Tahmina Negmat | Charlotte Edey | Michaela Yearwood-Dan | Jessica Wetherly | Billy Fraser | Alia Hamaoui | Rebecca Harper
Material Gods, essay to accompany Ancient Deities, Hussein Mitha, Sep 09, 2020
SOLO SHOWS
Chthonia
Arusha Gallery
Edingburgh
September 2022
femininity
Delphian Gallery
London
July 2021
Habitual Submission
Delphian Gallery
London
September 2019
Rhiannon Salisbury Darbyshire Prize For Emerging Artists
Presented by Darbyshire Ltd & Turps Banana
London
November 2018
Accessorise With A Tiger
Arusha Gallery
Edinburgh
September 2018
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
ShowStopper
Saatchi Gallery presented by Delphian Gallery
London
September 2022
Tomorrow’s Woman
Natasha Arselan Gallery
London
June 2022
Synthesis
Saatchi Gallery presented by Delphian Gallery
London
March 2022
Dream Baby Dream
Fitzrovia Gallery presented by Paint Talk
London
February 2022
Global Song
Tang Contemporary
Hong Kong
January 2022
L2022DON
Galleri Ismene
Norway
January 2022
Antisocial Isolation
Saatchi Gallerypresented by Delphian Gallery
London
November 2021
4 Year Anniversary Show
Delphian Gallery
Covent Garden, London
August 2021
Whelm
Leiscester Contemporary
Curated by Matt Macken
July 2021
Origin
Delphian Gallery
London
June 2021
Tangled In The Blue
Purslane Arts
London
2021
House S1
Collective Ending
London
2020
Ancient Deities
Arusha Gallery
Edinburgh
September 2020
We Could Apply Our Lipstick
C & C Gallery
London
July 2020
The Sinister Figures
The Bunker presented by BuuBuu Studios
Online
2020
Art On A Postcard: International Women’s Day Auction
The AllBright Mayfair
London
2020
House Warming
Collective Ending HQ
London
2019
A High Hang
Curated by Christabel MacGreevy and Mark Connolly
London
2019
Small Is Beautiful XXXVII
Flowers Gallery
London
2019
Ultra: Art For The Woman’s World Cup
J. Hammond Projects
Presented by OOF Magazine
London
2019
Art Car Boot Fair
Presented by OOF Magazine & J. Hammond Projects
London
2019
Delphian Open Call
Delphian Gallery
London
2019
ABSINTHE $1
Spit & Sawdust
Curated by James Capper, Charlie Mills, and Billy Fraser
London
2019
Small Is Beautiful XXXVI
Flowers Gallery
London
2018
Paper Cuts
Saatchi Gallery
Curated by Kris Day
London
2018
Young London Painters
Arthill Gallery
Curated By Hector Campbell
London
2018
New Work Part III: SUBJECT
COB Gallery
London
2018
Artist Of The Day
Flowers Gallery
Selected By Phillip Allen
Flowers Gallery, Mayfair, London
2018
INTERVIEWS / PRESS / PODCASTS
Made In Bed Magazine, Sotheby’s Institute London, Rhiannon Salisbury: Emerging Artist Feature, 25.06.2022
Space Podcast, Out of SPACE | Episode 3: The message, Harold Offeh and Rhiannon Salisbury hosted by Cathy Lomax, 18.08.2021
Artsy, “5 Artsits On Our Radar This August”, by Adeola Gay, 09.08.2021
Artlyst, “Entwining Spiritualism And Art – Three Shows” , Ancient Deities, Arusha Gallery, Danh Vo: Chicxulub, White Cube, by Revd Jonathan Even, 11.10.2020
This Is Tomorrow, “Ancient Deities” review by Hailey Maxwell, 30.09.2020
The Times, “Ancient Deities”, upcoming shows, 10.09.2020
Country and Townhouse: The Best Exhibitions In The UK, by Ellie Smith, 10.09.2020
Material Gods, essay to accompany Ancient Deities, Hussein Mitha, Sep 09, 2020
ART REVIEW: Arusha Gallery & Rhiannon Salisbury: Ancient Deities Sofia Cotrona, 09.09.2020
Scottish Contemporary Art Network, Ancient Deities, 09.09.20
The Skinny, Heads Up, Compiled By Anahit Behrooz, 09.09.2020
The Scotsman, Edingburg Art Fair, Artist Profile: Rhiannon Salisbury, 05.09.2020
Broadwayworld: Arusha Gallery & Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury Present 'Ancient Deities' BWW News Desk Aug. 5, 2020
Soho Radio, The Silver Stream, EPISODE 9 : ‘HINTERLANDS’ with Guest Collaborator Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury with host Byzantia Harlow 01/06/20
Invited Judge on Delphian Open Call 2020, alongside Tabish Khan, Wingshan Smith, Kristin Hjellegjerde, Henrik Uldalen
Textured Paintings by Rhiannon Salisbury, Create! Magazine, ART, ISSUE XVII OCTOBER 21, 2019
“Outrage, Isolation, Sadness, Disgust”, Assemblage Magazine, Benjamin Murphy, September 2019
“Rhiannon Salisbury's paintings of the 'absurd' representation of women in advertising”, Creative Boom, Katy Cowan, 12.09.2019
Short Film about “Habitual Submission” made by Nick JS Thompson, Delphian Gallery, 08.19
Delphian Podcast, Episode 07, Artist Interview with Rhiannon Salisbury, 19.08.19
Interview with Hector Campbell in ‘ABSINTHE §1’ publication by Collective Ending, edited by Charlie Mills, published by Kronos Publishing and Elam Publishing, 2019
Where To Celebrate The Women's World Cup 2019, Vogue Magazine, 20.06.19
Judging Panel: Rhiannon Salisbury, Russel Tovey, and Daniel J. Edwards for Darbyshire Prize For Emerging Artists 2019 with Turps Banana and Darbyshire Ltd. 19.06.19
How To Navigate The Art World, Panel Discussion at Delphian Gallery with Benjamin Murphy, Nick JS Thompson, Hector Campbell, & Rhiannon Salisbury. 02.04.19
“Six emerging talents of the future”, Vogue Spain, 23.07.19
Glossy Alluring, in conversation with Rhiannon Salisbury, Editorial Feature on Eve Liebe Gallery, 2019
Featured Artist Interview on Young Space with Kathes Mothes, 2019
“Young London Painters” Curator Hector Campbell Interview’s Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury, 2018
Wall Street International: New Work Part III at the Cob Gallery in London, United Kingdom, 2018
FLOORR Magazine Issue 17: Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury, interviewed by Issey Scott, 2018
The Edingburgh Reporter: Arusha Gallery: New Exhibitions, 2018
Extended Call, Vice interview , 2018
Hoyland Trust funds next generation of artists, 2018
Art Maze Magazine Autumn Issue 9, 2018
GQ MAGAZINE: Early Blue Chip Artists to Invest In , 2016
b. 1984
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
2016 - 2018
Turps Banana: Studio Painter
Darbyshire Prize For Emerging Artist’s Recipient
2015 - 2016
MAFA Chelsea College of Art
John Hoyland Scholarship Recipient
AWARDS
Rome Art Program Scholarship
Rome, Italy
2013
John Hoyland Scholarship
Chelsea College of Art
2015
Darbyshire Prize For Emerging Art
presented by Darbyshire Ltd. & Turps Banana
2018
Overall Delphian Open Call Winner
Delphian Gallery
2019
SPACE Artists Grant
2020
RESIDENCIES
Clovermill Residency
The Netherlands
October 2022
Collective Ending Inaugural Studio Member
London
2019 - 2020
Absent Minded Residency
organised by Alia Hamaoui & Collective Ending
Galliac, France
2019
Panorama Residency
Chelsea College of Art
Guadalajara, Mexico
2016
CURATION
The Eyes Of The Night Creatures
Delphian Gallery x Artsy
Curated by Rhiannon Salisbury
December 2021
Shadi Al-Atallah I Jeanine Brito I Nell Brookfield I Bill Daggs I Ariane Heloise Hughes I James Lincoln I Holly Mills I Sophie Ruigrok I Rhiannon Salisbury I Dennis Scholl I Tomas Harker I Jennifer Smith I Marlene Steyn
Ancient Deities
Arusha Gallery
Curated by Rhiannon Salisbury
September 2020
Artists: Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury | Leo Robinson | Paige Perkins | Byzantia Harlow | Matt Macken | Norman Hyams | Victor Seaward | Lindsey Mendick | Jake Grewal | Lena Brazin | Ella Walker | Tahmina Negmat | Charlotte Edey | Michaela Yearwood-Dan | Jessica Wetherly | Billy Fraser | Alia Hamaoui | Rebecca Harper
Material Gods, essay to accompany Ancient Deities, Hussein Mitha, Sep 09, 2020
SOLO SHOWS
Chthonia
Arusha Gallery
Edingburgh
September 2022
femininity
Delphian Gallery
London
July 2021
Habitual Submission
Delphian Gallery
London
September 2019
Rhiannon Salisbury Darbyshire Prize For Emerging Artists
Presented by Darbyshire Ltd & Turps Banana
London
November 2018
Accessorise With A Tiger
Arusha Gallery
Edinburgh
September 2018
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
ShowStopper
Saatchi Gallery presented by Delphian Gallery
London
September 2022
Tomorrow’s Woman
Natasha Arselan Gallery
London
June 2022
Synthesis
Saatchi Gallery presented by Delphian Gallery
London
March 2022
Dream Baby Dream
Fitzrovia Gallery presented by Paint Talk
London
February 2022
Global Song
Tang Contemporary
Hong Kong
January 2022
L2022DON
Galleri Ismene
Norway
January 2022
Antisocial Isolation
Saatchi Gallerypresented by Delphian Gallery
London
November 2021
4 Year Anniversary Show
Delphian Gallery
Covent Garden, London
August 2021
Whelm
Leiscester Contemporary
Curated by Matt Macken
July 2021
Origin
Delphian Gallery
London
June 2021
Tangled In The Blue
Purslane Arts
London
2021
House S1
Collective Ending
London
2020
Ancient Deities
Arusha Gallery
Edinburgh
September 2020
We Could Apply Our Lipstick
C & C Gallery
London
July 2020
The Sinister Figures
The Bunker presented by BuuBuu Studios
Online
2020
Art On A Postcard: International Women’s Day Auction
The AllBright Mayfair
London
2020
House Warming
Collective Ending HQ
London
2019
A High Hang
Curated by Christabel MacGreevy and Mark Connolly
London
2019
Small Is Beautiful XXXVII
Flowers Gallery
London
2019
Ultra: Art For The Woman’s World Cup
J. Hammond Projects
Presented by OOF Magazine
London
2019
Art Car Boot Fair
Presented by OOF Magazine & J. Hammond Projects
London
2019
Delphian Open Call
Delphian Gallery
London
2019
ABSINTHE $1
Spit & Sawdust
Curated by James Capper, Charlie Mills, and Billy Fraser
London
2019
Small Is Beautiful XXXVI
Flowers Gallery
London
2018
Paper Cuts
Saatchi Gallery
Curated by Kris Day
London
2018
Young London Painters
Arthill Gallery
Curated By Hector Campbell
London
2018
New Work Part III: SUBJECT
COB Gallery
London
2018
Artist Of The Day
Flowers Gallery
Selected By Phillip Allen
Flowers Gallery, Mayfair, London
2018
INTERVIEWS / PRESS / PODCASTS
Made In Bed Magazine, Sotheby’s Institute London, Rhiannon Salisbury: Emerging Artist Feature, 25.06.2022
Space Podcast, Out of SPACE | Episode 3: The message, Harold Offeh and Rhiannon Salisbury hosted by Cathy Lomax, 18.08.2021
Artsy, “5 Artsits On Our Radar This August”, by Adeola Gay, 09.08.2021
Artlyst, “Entwining Spiritualism And Art – Three Shows” , Ancient Deities, Arusha Gallery, Danh Vo: Chicxulub, White Cube, by Revd Jonathan Even, 11.10.2020
This Is Tomorrow, “Ancient Deities” review by Hailey Maxwell, 30.09.2020
The Times, “Ancient Deities”, upcoming shows, 10.09.2020
Country and Townhouse: The Best Exhibitions In The UK, by Ellie Smith, 10.09.2020
Material Gods, essay to accompany Ancient Deities, Hussein Mitha, Sep 09, 2020
ART REVIEW: Arusha Gallery & Rhiannon Salisbury: Ancient Deities Sofia Cotrona, 09.09.2020
Scottish Contemporary Art Network, Ancient Deities, 09.09.20
The Skinny, Heads Up, Compiled By Anahit Behrooz, 09.09.2020
The Scotsman, Edingburg Art Fair, Artist Profile: Rhiannon Salisbury, 05.09.2020
Broadwayworld: Arusha Gallery & Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury Present 'Ancient Deities' BWW News Desk Aug. 5, 2020
Soho Radio, The Silver Stream, EPISODE 9 : ‘HINTERLANDS’ with Guest Collaborator Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury with host Byzantia Harlow 01/06/20
Invited Judge on Delphian Open Call 2020, alongside Tabish Khan, Wingshan Smith, Kristin Hjellegjerde, Henrik Uldalen
Textured Paintings by Rhiannon Salisbury, Create! Magazine, ART, ISSUE XVII OCTOBER 21, 2019
“Outrage, Isolation, Sadness, Disgust”, Assemblage Magazine, Benjamin Murphy, September 2019
“Rhiannon Salisbury's paintings of the 'absurd' representation of women in advertising”, Creative Boom, Katy Cowan, 12.09.2019
Short Film about “Habitual Submission” made by Nick JS Thompson, Delphian Gallery, 08.19
Delphian Podcast, Episode 07, Artist Interview with Rhiannon Salisbury, 19.08.19
Interview with Hector Campbell in ‘ABSINTHE §1’ publication by Collective Ending, edited by Charlie Mills, published by Kronos Publishing and Elam Publishing, 2019
Where To Celebrate The Women's World Cup 2019, Vogue Magazine, 20.06.19
Judging Panel: Rhiannon Salisbury, Russel Tovey, and Daniel J. Edwards for Darbyshire Prize For Emerging Artists 2019 with Turps Banana and Darbyshire Ltd. 19.06.19
How To Navigate The Art World, Panel Discussion at Delphian Gallery with Benjamin Murphy, Nick JS Thompson, Hector Campbell, & Rhiannon Salisbury. 02.04.19
“Six emerging talents of the future”, Vogue Spain, 23.07.19
Glossy Alluring, in conversation with Rhiannon Salisbury, Editorial Feature on Eve Liebe Gallery, 2019
Featured Artist Interview on Young Space with Kathes Mothes, 2019
“Young London Painters” Curator Hector Campbell Interview’s Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury, 2018
Wall Street International: New Work Part III at the Cob Gallery in London, United Kingdom, 2018
FLOORR Magazine Issue 17: Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury, interviewed by Issey Scott, 2018
The Edingburgh Reporter: Arusha Gallery: New Exhibitions, 2018
Extended Call, Vice interview , 2018
Hoyland Trust funds next generation of artists, 2018
Art Maze Magazine Autumn Issue 9, 2018
GQ MAGAZINE: Early Blue Chip Artists to Invest In , 2016
Saatchi Gallery presented by Delphian Gallery