Between Slumped Shoulders Held the Moon in Waiting

This is the first solo exhibition by Oluwasemilore Delano in the gallery. This body of work continues Delano’s long attentive engagement with cows in Nigeria, not as pastoral symbols, but as a signifier of human instinct, honesty, beauty and roughness. These animals appear not as softened European archetypes but as scarred, awkward, strong and quietly secretive beings. They graze, stand, wait and endure within landscapes that feel both familiar and strange, carrying narratives that unfold slowly like riddles told under a shifting sky.

Oluwasemilore Delano, b.1998, from Ogun state, Nigeria, is a London and Lagos-based artist whose practice explores memory, lineage, and Black spatial consciousness through drawing and sculpture. Her work often engages with materials such as charcoal, concrete, oil, and textured black surfaces to interrogate themes of time, self/communal referencing, and cultural inheritance.
Delano began her formal art education with a foundation year at the Royal Drawing School, followed by a BA in Architecture at King’s College, University of Cambridge. She later completed an MFA at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford (2023–24), supported by the Black Academic Futures and Penny Freer Scholarships.

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