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Delphi Campbell

Hi! I'm Delphi.
I'm a multi-disciplinary artist, using my practice to explore the self through everything pink, fleshy, and soft.

Artist Statement

Portfolio

This is a collection of works made in 2021 and 2022.

Delphi Campbell Ruskin MFA Degree Show presentation. it is a red and pink room, with the walls and ceiling completely covered in secondhand fabric. it is patchworked together with staples, bulging and bulbous, forming soft padded tumors. there are other soft sculptures in the space. sacks of offcuts, scraps and leftovers that I have been gathering for years. there is a white chair made of reclaimed wedding dresses, which is puffy, covered in frills and beads and tulle. there is a brown penis table sculpture next to it, with a soft sculpture penis and ballsack dangling from the table. Sat on the table is a fringed lamp, but the fringe is made of human hair. human hair is embedded into the lampshade as well, which is made of latex and sewn together in rough black stitches. it has a red light emitting from it, and there is a second red lightbulb hanging from above. a third lamp, is dangled over a red washing line that extends from one corner to another. it is connected to an extension cable, which droops before extending upwards to the washing line, dangling back down. the lamp base is an off-center womb, with thin fallopian tubes and ovaries attached. the womb is soft sculpture. the lamp has another red lightbulb. the whole art installation is filled with this red light. there is a pink bookcase, hanging on the wall suspended near the ceiling, stuffed with pink soft objects, which are sliding out. the bottom shelf is empty, and a pink lump lies on the floor beneath it. everything in the art sculptures and installation is sustainbly sourced, second hand found or reclaimed, except for the lightbulbs and the staples.

a delphi campbell art installation in a white room with concrete floor. there are several washing lines crossing the room, hung with various fabrics, soft sculptures, and scraps. there is latex, human hair, tubes, wrinkly sacks and bulbous protrusions, all soft sculptures made using entirely second hand fabric.

two posters side by side. a white background, and a uterus shaped lamp dangling in front of it, with a red lightbulb. an extension cable can be seen at the bottom. on the left hand side, it says "it's so quiet" at the top, and gives dates time and location of the exhibition at Dolphin Gallery St Johns College Oxford. On the right it reads "it's cancelled" and then "because access in oxford is hell". the posters were made by delphi campbell to advertise an exhibition, and then to amend it, when she found out 15 hours before install that it was not wheelchair accessible, so she could not enter the site.

delphi campbells two soft sculptures soft plinth and remains. the background is a white gallery wall and a light brown wooden floor. sat on the floor is a soft, crumpled looking white cube, made of different white secondhand fabrics. draped over soft plinth is remains, a pink, tentaclely object with many limbs. it is covered in black stitches, both real and drawn on. it is made of delphi's old morphsuit, which she used to perform in.

delphi campbell, a white wheelchair user and artist, is sat in her chair in a white room with concrete floors. she is wearing a black bodysuit, and her interactive sculpture the isolation sock. it is a black padded helmet that obscures the wearers sight and muffles the wearers hearing. it is made of reclaimed fabric, sustainably.

delphi campbell artist's soft sculpture put something in me is standing in front of a dirty white wall, on a concrete floor. the object is a pale pink, phallic tube. it has a wrinkly, vaginal hole in the top, with something poking out of it. a paper sign has been sewn to the tube, which reads in messy sharpie " PUT SOMETHING IN ME" . it is entirely made of secondhand, reclaimed and found materials.

delphi campbell artists sculpture made during masters of fine art at the ruskin oxford university. in a white room with concrete floor, a long, low white plinth is placed at an angle. just in front of it, a pink, patchworked tube like object is lying on the ground. it looks like it may have rolled off the plinth in it's sleep. it is made of scrap fabric i have saved for sustainability

delphi campbell artist's soft sculpture offal, from her installation for young welsh artists, endogenous. it is made of pink pvc, sewn by a blanket stitch around some rough edges. the pvc is filled with a soft patchworked blob of pinks reds and browns, quilted together. all of the fabric is secondhand or reclaimed / sculpture

Delphi Campbell artist's soft sculpture eighteen. a long black, tendrilled object is suspended from the ceiling, dangling down and almost trailing on the floor. it has many appendages and tentacles. the work is in a white room with a light brown wooden floor.

Delphi Campbell, Un-Titled, 2022. A soft sculpture / wall hanging sculpture is disaplayed on a white wall, in the corner of a room with concrete floors. the work is rectangular in the op left corner, appearing like a canvas, only to sag, bulge and protrude into a soft bulbous form at the bottom right corner. this saggy lump then extends into a phallic soft tbe that is trailing off to the right.

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