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Diane Chappalley (Born in 1991, in Switzerland, lives and works in London) creates figurative landscapes in oil paint as well as ceramic sculptures that draw on transitional experiences of death and birth, loss and love, trauma and resilience. She addresses themes that are both personal and inherently universal. 

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In her large canvases, among vast washes of colours that suggest both soil and skin tones, the human figures are still - as if they are carved from stone; statues lost in time. Surrounded by anxious flowers as markers of ritual, her work is deeply spiritual and psychological. 
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It reflects on our primal emotions, our capacity for rebirth, and our relationship with the natural world.
 
EDUCATION
Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, MA Fine Art, 2015 – 2017
City and Guilds of London Art School, BA Fine Art, First Class Hons, 2012 – 2015
Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland, Foundation Visual Art, 2011 – 2012
 
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITION
2023 Constellation, Solo show, Lychee One Gallery, London, UK
2022 The Flowers are Witness, Solo Show, Taymour Grahne Project, London, UK
2021 Death, In Bloom!,  duo show with James Jessiman, Artworks Project Space, London, UK
2020 The Auguries, duo show with Anna Reading, Informality Gallery, UK
2019 Behind Closed Doors, Informality Gallery, Oxforshire ,UK
Diane Chappalley & Georgia Sowerby, duo show, SET Space, London, UK
2018 The present is already gone, duo show with Antonia Showering, Chalton Gallery, London, UK
Alice Bailly Award, duo show with Noémie Doge, Espace CHUV, Lausanne, CH
2017 POND, Academy of Visual Arts Gallery, duo show with Anna Reading, Kaitak Gallery, HKBU, Hong Kong, HK
 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Imagined States: Chapter 2 "Intrinsicality", WOAW Gallery, Group Show Hong Kong, HK

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2023

KIAF,  presentation by COB Gallery, Seoul, ROK

Cross Breeze, curated by Domenico Dechirico, Oneroom Gallery, London, UK

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2022

Landscape, Taymour Grahne Project, London, UK

The Throat of the Snake, COMA Gallery, Sydney, AUS

Somewhere in Time, Tube Culture Hall, Milan, IT

Conversation with Memory, Cedric Bardawil, London UK

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2021

Invisible Dragon, Cedric Bardawil, Cromwell Place, London, UK

Aora Space, nature / nurture, online

Casa Da Dona Laura, group show, Casa do Capitao, Lisbon, PT

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2020 

FIGHT or FLIGHT?, The Bakery, Roman Road Gallery, London  UK            

Waving in the distance, Terrace Gallery, London, UK         

        

2018 Residency exhibition, Unit1 Gallery, London, UK

FBA Futures 2018, Mall Galleries, London, UK

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2017

Slade Graduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

Lynn Painter Stainers, Mall Galleries, London, UK

Exceptional, The Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, UK

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2016                  

Marmite Prize for Painting V, Block 336, London / Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland, UK

Imagine if that said, Safehouse II, London, UK

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2015                  

BA degree show, City and Guilds of London Art School, UK

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COLLECTIONS

HSBC art collection, UK
Oxford University collection, UK
CHUV contemporary art collection, Lausanne, CH

X Museum collection, Beijing, CN