Damien Cifelli
About the Artist
Damien Cifelli is a multidisciplinary artist and writer from Edinburgh. He has exhibited internationally at galleries including Whitechapel Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, and OOF galleries with solo shows at Spinello Projects, Moosey Gallery, Pulpo, Liminal Gallery, and Edinburgh Art Festival. He was shortlisted for the East London Art Prize, UK New Artists Award, Cass Art Prize and Delphian Open Call and won the Thyssen Versiona award.
Cifelli’s work explores an alternative world of his own creation called ‘Tarogramma’ and everything he creates exists within this fictional environment. Referencing the scale and compositions of history paintings and historical sculpture, he has built a detailed culture with its own aesthetic, way of living, and understanding of the world; one that is at once alien, and eerily similar to our own. He tells the story of the place through fictional anthropology and storytelling; the paintings and artefacts are a visual representation of this alternative society - documentary images of a new world. Viewers are left asking whether it’s an afterlife, a forgotten city, or an entirely fictional construct. The series has received critical acclaim for its imaginative world-building and unique aesthetic.
Damien Cifelli is a multidisciplinary artist and writer from Edinburgh. He has exhibited internationally at galleries including Whitechapel Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, and OOF galleries with solo shows at Spinello Projects, Moosey Gallery, Pulpo, Liminal Gallery, and Edinburgh Art Festival. He was shortlisted for the East London Art Prize, UK New Artists Award, Cass Art Prize and Delphian Open Call and won the Thyssen Versiona award.
Cifelli’s work explores an alternative world of his own creation called ‘Tarogramma’ and everything he creates exists within this fictional environment. Referencing the scale and compositions of history paintings and historical sculpture, he has built a detailed culture with its own aesthetic, way of living, and understanding of the world; one that is at once alien, and eerily similar to our own. He tells the story of the place through fictional anthropology and storytelling; the paintings and artefacts are a visual representation of this alternative society - documentary images of a new world. Viewers are left asking whether it’s an afterlife, a forgotten city, or an entirely fictional construct. The series has received critical acclaim for its imaginative world-building and unique aesthetic.
The Artworks (Ashurst Art Collection 2025)
The Holy Mountain Baths and Spa
Oil on Canvas
155 x 86cm
Oil on Canvas
155 x 86cm
