Malcy
Delacour

Malcy Delacour is a London-based printmaker exploring the intersection of photography and printmaking. A graduate of Central Saint Martins (MRes, Exhibition Studies, 2019), she is captivated by the medium’s alchemical potential, pushing the boundaries of image-making through layering, blurring, and delicate interventions of color.

Her work challenges the role of the photographer. Haunted by the idea of drawing a photograph, she disrupts the traditional photographic image, softening its edges and distorting its clarity. Inspired by Pictorialism, she seeks to create prints that feel ageless—both familiar and elusive.

Delacour sees photography as a paradox: a mirror of memory rather than reality, an illusion captured by the unconscious. Influenced by Freud’s notion that photography is more linked to memory than vision, she questions the mysterious interplay between mind and machine. Each of her images is a déjà-made—a reimagined déjà-vu—crafted through analog photography and slow, intentional mark-making.

Most recently, she has developed her own technique to imprint traces of fragility. She layers, intertwines, and superimposes transparent forms, exposing each step in her process to create a non-figurative palimpsest—a composition that reveals its own making.

Delacour’s works are held in private collections and have been featured in prestigious exhibitions, including:

Born in France in 1970, Delacour began her career in the Parisian fashion industry before relocating to London in 1999. After raising her family, she returned to academia to fully pursue her artistic practice.