About the artist
Danielle Creme is an Israeli-British figurative painter whose work explores how identity is shaped through memory, migration, relationships, and inherited cultural histories.
Working primarily in oil on canvas, she uses the figure as a means of investigating belonging, displacement, and the enduring search for home.
Through paintings that move between realism and abstraction, Creme examines the emotional and psychological impact of migration, diaspora, motherhood, and cultural continuity.
Her work is rooted in the tension between preservation and adaptation: how individuals maintain connections to their histories, cultures, and communities while navigating change. Layered surfaces, fragmentation, and moments of dissolution reflect the ways memory and identity are continually shaped by both personal and collective experience.
At the heart of her practice is a belief that painting can create moments of recognition, of ourselves, our histories, and one another. By exploring experiences of vulnerability, displacement, love, loss, and belonging, her work seeks to foster empathy and dialogue, reflecting on the ties that connect people, places, and communities across time and distance.
Artist Resume
Born in Reading, England, 1976.
Emigrated to Kibbutz Matzuva, Israel, 1977.
Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.
Selected exhibitions:
2026 Carrying home (Solo exhibition), Galerie 111, Zürich, Switzerland
2026 Zurich International Art Fair (Art fair), Zurich, Switzerland
2025 Almenara Collection Art Prize (Online Exhibition), Córdoba, Spain
2024 Zurich International art fair (Art fair), Zurich, Switzerland
2024 Backstage Engelberg (Group exhibition), Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Engelberg, Switzerland.
2023 Strength in Vulnerability (Solo exhibition), Zurich, Switzerland.
Collections:
Private collections in the USA, UK, Israel, Germany and Switzerland.