Iness Rychlik - Live Canvas

Delphian Gallery & Unit 1 Gallery & Workshop are pleased to present Live Canvas, a solo exhibition by Iness Rychlik, the overall winner of the 2024 Delphian Open Call.

Rychlik is known for her emotionally charged self-portraits, which intertwine intimacy and unease to explore the fragile intersections between beauty, pain, and selfhood.

Living with severe visual impairment and a chronic skin condition, Rychlik transforms physical limitation into creative impetus. Her body becomes both the site and subject of her work; a living surface upon which marks of endurance, vulnerability, and transformation are inscribed. In Live Canvas, the act of creation verges on ritual; traces of self-inflicted discomfort reveal the thin boundary between harm and healing, between control and surrender.

The photographs presented in this exhibition move between tenderness and brutality, revealing a world of muted violence rendered with quiet precision. Rychlik’s imagery resists resolution - it withholds comfort, inviting the viewer to linger in the tension between revelation and concealment. Through gestures of exposure and restraint, she crafts visual narratives that speak to isolation, discipline, and the complex beauty of imperfection.

Live Canvas examines the artist’s body not as an object of gaze, but as a language of experience—fragile, deliberate, and alive. Within these images, creation is inseparable from suffering; the surface of the skin becomes a manuscript of endurance. Rychlik’s work challenges us to reconsider where art begins: in the mind, the flesh, or the quiet violence of transformation itself.

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Iness Rychlik - The Awakening (A3 poster edition)

£100.00

Iness Rychlik - The Awakening

£3,000.00

Iness Rychlik - Caution

£3,000.00

Iness Rychlik - Defiance

£3,000.00

Iness Rychlik - An Object of Discomfort