Tiffanie Delune France, b. 1988

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Tiffanie Delune is a self-taught visual artist of French, Belgo-Congolese heritage, today living in Lisbon, Portugal.

Expanding from an initial focus on personal trauma and childhood experiences, Tiffanie is interested in the magic of storytelling that engages conversations and evokes emotions. She has exhibited in London, Paris, Lagos and Los Angeles and featured on Forbes, BBC Radio London, Contemporary And, The Financial Times and Artsy. Her work is held in various private collections and the permanent collections of the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art in Geneva, Switzerland as well as the Alexandra Cohen Presbytarian Hospital for Women and Newborns in New York.

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‘Approaching my work with playfulness and an intuitive curiosity, I create multilayered pieces on cotton canvas, loose linen and smaller pieces of paper; inviting for a dialogue between the scale and the subject. Letting go of any inhibitions in the choice of materials, I long for textures, meanings and a sense of memory — from acrylic, oil pastels and papercuts to glitter and threads. In a conflicted world that feels deeply saturated, I put a special emphasis on sharing a blended, unfiltered narrative in all its depth and authenticity.’

— Tiffanie Delune

Her debut solo exhibition with the gallery is currently on show in Accra, Ghana. Previous solo presentations include 'There is Gold on the Palms of my Hands', Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana (2023); ‘See Me Flowing’, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, USA (2022); ‘There’s Gasoline in My Heart’, Foreign Agent, Lausanne, Switzerland (2022); ‘Seeds of Light’, Ed Cross Fine Art, London, UK (2020) and ‘Metamorphosis’, Someth1ng Gallery, London, UK (2019). Group exhibitions include, 'In and Out of Time', Curated by Ekow Eshun, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana; 'A Spirit Inside', The Lightbox Gallery, UK (2023); ‘UNLIMITED’, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana (2022); ‘The Storytellers’, Gallery 1957, London, UK (2022); ‘Mother Nature’, The Core Club, New York (2022); ‘Her Dark Materials’, Online with Eye Of The Huntress, London, (2021); ‘In The Beginning’, Online with Ed Cross Fine Art, London (2021); ‘Shape of the New’, Online with ArtCan, London (2021) and ‘In The Midst of All That Is’, Band of Vice, Los Angeles (2021).

In 2022, Delune was nominated for the 2023 Norval Sovereign African Art Prize. Between January and March 2023, the artist was in residency with Gallery 1957, Accra. In 2021, Delune was nominated for the Reiffers Art Initiative Prize in Paris, France and in 2018, she completed a residency with 16/16 in Lagos, Nigeria. Delune has been featured on Forbes, BBC Radio London, The Financial Times, The Evening Standard, Cultured Magazine, Artillery Magazine and Artsy. Her work is held in various private collections and the permanent collections of the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art in Geneva, Switzerland as well as the Alexandra Cohen Presbyterian Hospital for Women and Newborns in New York and The Women’s Art Collection of the Murray Edwards College at Cambridge University, UK.

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