Selected Works / Shows
Eclogue St. Perpetua, Slewe Gallery (Solo)
Early Baptismal Fonts
Early Baptismal Fonts, Words Before Commas, Poplars: Basilica Pacis
De Ateliers Offspring 2023 - Raamvertelling
Woonhuis Opening - Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Lab Filter Paper Works 1-12 (Remembrance Without Thought, Pores)
Woonhuis +1
A Morsel of Curd (Solo) TG, Nottingham
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Eclogue St. Perpetua, Slewe Gallery (Solo)
Early Baptismal Fonts
Early Baptismal Fonts, Words Before Commas, Poplars: Basilica Pacis
De Ateliers Offspring 2023 - Raamvertelling
Woonhuis Opening - Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Lab Filter Paper Works 1-12 (Remembrance Without Thought, Pores)
Woonhuis +1
A Morsel of Curd (Solo) TG, Nottingham
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Video/Sound
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I. Hirtacus and St. Ephigenia ("Daphnae,”)
Looped Audio
2024
05:39
(View)
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II. The Death of St. Matthew (“I am Falling,”)
Looped Audio
2024
04:19
(View)
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Peristalsis in Sheep Large Bowel (Eclogue)
Video
2024
03:00
(View)
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Synnøve Reading/Perpetua, Augustine
2023
Audio
03:08
(View)
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Ethiopian Evangelical Church in Gothenburg
2022
HD video
5:55
(View)
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I. Hirtacus and St. Ephigenia ("Daphnae,”)
Looped Audio
2024
05:39
(View)
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II. The Death of St. Matthew (“I am Falling,”)
Looped Audio
2024
04:19
(View)
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Peristalsis in Sheep Large Bowel (Eclogue)
Video
2024
03:00
(View)
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Synnøve Reading/Perpetua, Augustine
2023
Audio
03:08
(View)
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Ethiopian Evangelical Church in Gothenburg
2022
HD video
5:55
(View)
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About
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Ryan Christopher (b. 1998, UK) is a London-based artist working with sculpture, sound, and text. His work draws from suggestive, often subtle materials to arrange concise, spatial compositions that trace human thought and experience.
Engaging the formal properties of texts, architecture, and music, he sources widely—from early Christian history in North Africa, Ethiopia, and Asia Minor to strands of religious metaphysics—as a means to think through systems of relation. Religious texts of interest often critique dominant ideologies, articulate heightened emotional states, or pose metaphysical questions through poetic or oblique modes. His practice foregrounds how such voices, developed within marginal conditions, might open critical spaces to consider current concerns.
Found or reworked materials—such as white greenhouse sheeting and blinds (intermediaries between external light and enclosure), excerpts from martyrdom texts, basilica floor plans, and field recordings of wind—lend form to thought and referenced narratives. They negotiate conditions of necessity and mortality, articulate divine contact, and, in navigating contradictions, probe thresholds.
Recurring textual allusions to natural phenomena and living organisms—wind, rain, sunlight, rue, achillea, lilies, and birds, among others—serve as counterpoints to otherwise subdued materials.
The work maintains an investment in historic cross-regional discourses, particularly as these take form through texts and architecture. His clear plastic models surveying six early baptismal fonts from diverse regions, for instance, consider shared architectural motifs as features through which formal and theological dialogues once materialised.
Religious metaphysical inquiry and historical experience provide a means to engage with the intangible phenomena within systems of relation—whether expansive, transcending the human, or quietly internal and particular, as found in inner workings and in species of birds. Within the spatial narratives of the work, shifting connections are drawn, inviting alternative currents of thought and inquiry, whilst tracing variations of feeling.
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Ryan Christopher (b. 1998, UK) is a London-based artist working with sculpture, sound, and text. His work draws from suggestive, often subtle materials to arrange concise, spatial compositions that trace human thought and experience.
Engaging the formal properties of texts, architecture, and music, he sources widely—from early Christian history in North Africa, Ethiopia, and Asia Minor to strands of religious metaphysics—as a means to think through systems of relation. Religious texts of interest often critique dominant ideologies, articulate heightened emotional states, or pose metaphysical questions through poetic or oblique modes. His practice foregrounds how such voices, developed within marginal conditions, might open critical spaces to consider current concerns.
Found or reworked materials—such as white greenhouse sheeting and blinds (intermediaries between external light and enclosure), excerpts from martyrdom texts, basilica floor plans, and field recordings of wind—lend form to thought and referenced narratives. They negotiate conditions of necessity and mortality, articulate divine contact, and, in navigating contradictions, probe thresholds.
Recurring textual allusions to natural phenomena and living organisms—wind, rain, sunlight, rue, achillea, lilies, and birds, among others—serve as counterpoints to otherwise subdued materials.
The work maintains an investment in historic cross-regional discourses, particularly as these take form through texts and architecture. His clear plastic models surveying six early baptismal fonts from diverse regions, for instance, consider shared architectural motifs as features through which formal and theological dialogues once materialised.
Religious metaphysical inquiry and historical experience provide a means to engage with the intangible phenomena within systems of relation—whether expansive, transcending the human, or quietly internal and particular, as found in inner workings and in species of birds. Within the spatial narratives of the work, shifting connections are drawn, inviting alternative currents of thought and inquiry, whilst tracing variations of feeling.
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Education
2024-2025 Sculpture (MA) Royal College of Art, London
2022-2024 De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2018-2021 Fine Art (BA) Coventry University
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Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2024
Eclogue, St. Perpetua, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2023
Queries within articles within questions within distinctions - Michele Bazzoli, Ryan Christopher, De Personeelskamer, Amsterdam
2022
A morsel of curd, TG, Nottingham
Lyset peger mod vinden (The light points towards the wind) - Synnøve Kruse Serup, Ryan Christopher, Langkat 15, Amsterdam
London Arts Board, London
2021
365 States of a Reservoir - Lucy Grubb, Ryan Christopher, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
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Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings
2025
SoAH Show: RCA2025, RCA Battersea, London
2024
Festus, The Hangar space, London
Emami Art Experimental Film Festival, Kolkata
Cylinder, figure, Gem, Spectrum and Stone, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2023
De Ateliers Offspring 2023 - Raamvertelling, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
+1, Woonhuis, Amsterdam
Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth, Woonhuis, Amsterdam
2022
MELTDOWN, Ridley Road Project Space, London
Twenty Twenty Collection, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall
2021
Hyper-possible, Coventry Biennial, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
House, Coventry Biennial, The Hyper-Lab, Coventry
Proof, Coventry Biennial, The Old Grammar School, Coventry
Photocopies, Recent Activity, Birmingham
Birmingham by Night, Roundhouse Birmingham
Multiplicity of us, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Essex
The Mountain Garden, Herbert Art Gallery, Grain Projects (Online)
2020
Herbert Open, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
2019
IYP Bollards Project, Ikon Gallery
CWDT, Tottenham, London
You, me and those who came before, Friargate House, Coventry
You, me and those who came before, St. Marys Guildhall, Coventry
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Audio
Interview with Robert van Altena
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Selected texts
SoAH Show: RCA2025” — Exhibition text, Royal College of Art, London
Ryan Christopher interview with Raimundas Malašauskas
De Ateliers Offspring 2023 – Raamvertelling — Exhibition text, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
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Selected Writing
2025
In the Dark, the Tides Shine Bright” — Short story contribution to Jeano Edwards: In the Dark, the Tides Shine Bright (Hardcover, April 2025)
2023
Text for Solène Gün, photographer biography
2021
Introduction— Text contribution to Jeano Edwards’ photobook EverWonderful (self-published, shortlisted Paris Photo–Aperture Photobook Award)
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Teaching
Christopher has taught as a Visiting Lecturer on the BA Fine Art programme at Coventry University and the BA Fine Art Mixed Media programme at the University of Westminster. He has also delivered an artist talk on the BA Fine Art programme at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.
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Education
2024-2025 Sculpture (MA) Royal College of Art, London
2022-2024 De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2018-2021 Fine Art (BA) Coventry University
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Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2024
Eclogue, St. Perpetua, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2023
Queries within articles within questions within distinctions - Michele Bazzoli, Ryan Christopher, De Personeelskamer, Amsterdam
2022
A morsel of curd, TG, Nottingham
Lyset peger mod vinden (The light points towards the wind) - Synnøve Kruse Serup, Ryan Christopher, Langkat 15, Amsterdam
London Arts Board, London
2021
365 States of a Reservoir - Lucy Grubb, Ryan Christopher, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
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Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings
2025
SoAH Show: RCA2025, RCA Battersea, London
2024
Festus, The Hangar space, London
Emami Art Experimental Film Festival, Kolkata
Cylinder, figure, Gem, Spectrum and Stone, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2023
De Ateliers Offspring 2023 - Raamvertelling, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
+1, Woonhuis, Amsterdam
Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth, Woonhuis, Amsterdam
2022
MELTDOWN, Ridley Road Project Space, London
Twenty Twenty Collection, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall
2021
Hyper-possible, Coventry Biennial, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
House, Coventry Biennial, The Hyper-Lab, Coventry
Proof, Coventry Biennial, The Old Grammar School, Coventry
Photocopies, Recent Activity, Birmingham
Birmingham by Night, Roundhouse Birmingham
Multiplicity of us, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Essex
The Mountain Garden, Herbert Art Gallery, Grain Projects (Online)
2020
Herbert Open, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
2019
IYP Bollards Project, Ikon Gallery
CWDT, Tottenham, London
You, me and those who came before, Friargate House, Coventry
You, me and those who came before, St. Marys Guildhall, Coventry
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Audio
Interview with Robert van Altena
.
Selected texts
SoAH Show: RCA2025” — Exhibition text, Royal College of Art, London
Ryan Christopher interview with Raimundas Malašauskas
De Ateliers Offspring 2023 – Raamvertelling — Exhibition text, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
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Selected Writing
2025
In the Dark, the Tides Shine Bright” — Short story contribution to Jeano Edwards: In the Dark, the Tides Shine Bright (Hardcover, April 2025)
2023
Text for Solène Gün, photographer biography
2021
Introduction— Text contribution to Jeano Edwards’ photobook EverWonderful (self-published, shortlisted Paris Photo–Aperture Photobook Award)
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Teaching
Christopher has taught as a Visiting Lecturer on the BA Fine Art programme at Coventry University and the BA Fine Art Mixed Media programme at the University of Westminster. He has also delivered an artist talk on the BA Fine Art programme at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.
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