ROSS DEELEY

(b. 2001, Birmingham, UK) is an artist working across and in-between sculpture, photography, and moving image.

He is interested in using light as an alchemical material to explore temporality and our relationship to the ever-changing environment.



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Education 

2024-2025
  • MA Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art
    [Awarded the Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s UK Scholarship]
2020-2023
  • BA Fine Art with 1st Class Hons., Lancaster University
    [Awarded the Lancaster Scholarship & the Excellence Scholarship]

Residencies
2026
  • Newhaven Art Space Residency, Newhaven, UK
2025
  • Argo, Athens, GR


Solo Exhibitions
2026
  • Inbetween, Photobook Café Gallery, London, UK


Group Exhibitions 
2026
  • [UPCOMING] Make Me Bouquet, Leith Makers, Edinburgh, UK 
  • [UPCOMING] Simulacrum, ANNEX (by The Koppel Project), London, UK
  • Beneath the Rift, Hypha x Eastern City Studios, London, UK
  • CONVERGENCE, Down By Here (Formerly Elysium), Swansea, UK
  • DETRITUS, Domestic exhibition space, London, UK
  • Phenomena, Lewisham Art House, London, UK
  • COMPOSITE, Finch Community Cinema, London, UK
  • Like A Fire To A Burning Sun, Domestic exhibition space, London, UK
  • VIVID, Theatreship, London, UK
  • Hug Me Daddy [Performance Evening], ANNEX (by The Koppel Project), London, UK
2025
  • Ex Terra, Finch Community Cinema, London, UK
  • Kaalchakra, Asylum Chapel, London, UK
  • Provisional We, The Handbag Factory, London, UK
  • Defying The Odds, Somerset House, London, UK
  • 2025 RCA Contemporary Art Practice MA Degree Show, RCA SoAH Degree Show 2025, London, UK
  • 50:50, Technologica Collective, Manchester, UK
  • FIVE ELEMENTS, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
  • Ancestral Utopias, The Hangar, Royal College of Art, London, UK
  • AFTERSENSE: CAP.FM x Montez Press Radio,  Live from the Royal College of Art, London, UK
  • AFTERSENSE: Invisible Threads - CAP Cinema, Genesis Cinema, London, UK
  • sitlantA, The Handbag Factory, London, UK
  • Placeless Spaces, Pending Space, Royal College of Art, London, UK
  • To See a World in a Grain of Sand, Corner Gallery / 56 Dawes Rd, London, UK
  • Earth to Earth, 42 Gorst Studios, London, UK

2024
  • CAPbaret 2024 [Performance], Gorvy Theatre, Royal College of Art, London, UK
  • My Spaces are Fragile, Pending Space, Royal College of Art, London, UK
  • TRIBUTE, Safehouse 1+2, London, UK
  • Artificial Sun, Candid Arts Gallery, London, UK
  • HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS [Pt.4], Domestic exhibition space, Liverpool, UK
2023
  • derǝlict, Safehouse 1+2, London, UK
  • disruption (Lancaster University Degree Show 2023), Lancaster University & Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster, UK
  • Uninterrupted, Gregson Community Art Centre, Lancaster, UK
2022
  • /’FU:BAR/ [Glitch Art Festival 2022], net.cultural club MaMa, Zagreb, HR (& Online) 
  • HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS [Pt.3], Domestic exhibition space, Liverpool, UK 
  • Adaptation, Storey Gallery, Lancaster, UK 
2020
  • NEWWAVE, Viner Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK


Publications
2026
  • View from the Ordinary - Vol. 3, Concrete Nature Studio, Glasgow, UK
2025
  • Extra-Medium Magazine - Issue #00, XM, London, UK
  • Wiro Mag: Basalte, SU4IP, Sheffield, UK

© 2026 ROSS DEELEY