Diane Chappalley

Diane Chappalley (born in 1991, Switzerland) is a London-based artist whose practice spans painting and ceramics, exploring processes of becoming. Her paintings depict atmospheric environments where inner and outer worlds dissolve, holding the ordinary and the magical in tension.

 

Chappalley’s work explores transitional states, including matrescence and grief. Figures often appear suspended within these landscapes, while recurring motifs such as flowers, hearts, seeds, and roots are intertwined, forming fluid systems. These forms extend into three dimensions as ceramic sculptures, weaving the corporeal and the mythic into a shared, intimate world. Her practice moves between the seen and the invisible, life and death, the earthly and the cosmic.

 

Chappalley studied at the Bern University of the Arts before moving to London, where she completed a BA at the City & Guilds of London Art School in 2015, followed by an MA at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, in 2017. She was awarded a place on the Dean’s List upon graduation.

 

Recent solo exhibitions include Megan Mulrooney Gallery, Los Angeles (US); Lychee One, London (UK); and Taymour Grahne Projects, London (UK). Selected group exhibitions include Cell & Love and Hypha Studios, London (UK); WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong (HK); KIAF, presented by COB Gallery, Seoul (KR); COMA Gallery, Sydney (AU); Tube Culture Hall, Milan (IT); Cedric Bardawil, London (UK); Block 336, London (UK); and Informality Gallery, Oxfordshire (UK). 

 

Her work is held in several private and public collections, including the HSBC Art Collection, London (UK); the University of Oxford (UK); X Museum, Beijing (CN); the Contemporary Art Collection CHUV, Lausanne (CH); and the Musée Gruérien, Bulle (CH).