Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury
Lives and works in London, UK
Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury is a British painter working across canvas and Welsh slate. Her practice explores the meeting points between body, landscape, memory and myth, treating painting as a threshold surface where material and imagined worlds can overlap. Her canvases are built through layering, staining, interruption and return. Paint is allowed to pool, resist and shift, creating spaces that move between abstraction, landscape and bodily sensation. Alongside these works, Salisbury paints directly onto repurposed Welsh slate, responding to its weight, fracture, history and geological presence. These works draw on Welsh mythology, ritual, labour and ideas of passage, transformation and the inbetween. Salisbury is graduating from the MA Painting programme at the Royal College of Art, where she is supported by the Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award. She previously completed an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, supported by the John Hoyland Scholarship, and attended the Turps Banana Studio Programme.
EDUCATION
2026 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2018 Turps Banana Studio Programme, London, UK
2016 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 'London Writes Itself,' LBF Contemporary, London, UK (Group)
2026 'RCA 2026: School of Arts & Humanities Show,' MA Painting, London, UK (Group)
2026 'Illuminated,' Royal Society of Arts x AOAP Projects, RSA House, London, UK (Group)
2026 'Shifting Realities,' Hockney Gallery, Kensington, London, UK (Group)
2025 'Mythic Manifest,' Love Waxes Cold (Group)
2025 'POST//FUTURE,' Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, presented by Delphian Gallery (Group)
2024 'The Reactor Fundraiser,' The Sunday Painter, London, UK (Group)
2023 'Matrescence,' Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK (Solo)
2023–2024 'Papier Vol. I & II,' Delphian Gallery, France (2023) / Helsinki (2024) (Group)
2022 'Chthonia,' Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (Solo)
2022 'Taking a Broom to the Wasps' Nest,' Pictorum Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2022 'Dream Baby Dream,' Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK, curated by Paint Talk (Group)
2022 'Global Song,' Tang Contemporary, Hong Kong (Group)
2022 'L2022DON,' Galleri Ismene, Norway (Group)
2021 'Femininity,' Delphian Gallery, London, UK (Solo)
2021 'Antisocial Isolation,' Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, curated by Delphian Gallery (Group)
2021 'Origin,' Delphian Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2021 'Tangled in the Blue,' Purslane Arts, London, UK (Group)
2020 'House S1,' Collective Ending, London, UK (Group)
2019 'Habitual Submission,' Delphian Gallery, London, UK (Solo)
2018 'Rhiannon Salisbury: Darbyshire Prize Exhibition,' Turps Banana x Darbyshire Ltd., London, UK (Solo)