Selected Works / Shows
Early Baptismal Fonts
Eclogue St. Perpetua, Slewe Gallery (Solo)
De Ateliers Offspring 2023 - Raamvertelling (View)
Eusebian Canon Ornaments
Lab Filter Paper Works 1-12 (Remembrance Without Thought, Pores)
Woonhuis +1 (View)
Woonhuis Opening - Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth (View)
A Morsel of Curd (Solo)
TG, Nottingham (View)
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Early Baptismal Fonts
Eclogue St. Perpetua, Slewe Gallery (Solo)
De Ateliers Offspring 2023 - Raamvertelling (View)
Eusebian Canon Ornaments
Lab Filter Paper Works 1-12 (Remembrance Without Thought, Pores)
Woonhuis +1 (View)
Woonhuis Opening - Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth (View)
A Morsel of Curd (Solo)
TG, Nottingham (View)
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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)
.
II. The Death of St. Matthew (“I am Falling,”)
Looped Audio
2024
04:19
(View)
.
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 across sculpture, sound, and text to consider material relations within elliptical narratives. His practice draws on the formal and indexical properties of historical texts, architecture, and music, engaging diverse sources—including early Christian history (with a focus on North Africa, Ethiopia and Asia Minor) and religious metaphysics—to survey paths of thought. Historical religious writings that critique the dominant ideologies of their time are of particular interest, as are philosophical inquiries into how immaterial entities relate to material forms.
Collated experiences of the natural world, divine contact, absence, contradiction, and necessity are suggested through subtle materials such as blinds, printed text, sound recordings, or plastic models of baptismal fonts. These particular aspects of historical inner workings are examined to establish connections and instances of shared experience. Adopting the form of fragments, material suggestions are arranged into concise narrative compositions shaped by slight, methodical gestures. Philosophical inquiry and historical experiences thus form the basis of his practice, inclining viewers toward questions about the complex, intangible phenomena that constitute both broad and specific systems of relations.
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Ryan Christopher (b. 1998, UK) is a London-based artist working across sculpture, sound, and text to consider material relations within elliptical narratives. His practice draws on the formal and indexical properties of historical texts, architecture, and music, engaging diverse sources—including early Christian history (with a focus on North Africa, Ethiopia and Asia Minor) and religious metaphysics—to survey paths of thought. Historical religious writings that critique the dominant ideologies of their time are of particular interest, as are philosophical inquiries into how immaterial entities relate to material forms.
Collated experiences of the natural world, divine contact, absence, contradiction, and necessity are suggested through subtle materials such as blinds, printed text, sound recordings, or plastic models of baptismal fonts. These particular aspects of historical inner workings are examined to establish connections and instances of shared experience. Adopting the form of fragments, material suggestions are arranged into concise narrative compositions shaped by slight, methodical gestures. Philosophical inquiry and historical experiences thus form the basis of his practice, inclining viewers toward questions about the complex, intangible phenomena that constitute both broad and specific systems of relations.
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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
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
Slewe Gallery
Ryan Christopher interview with Raimundas Malašauskas
London Arts Board
Recent Activity
Dazed
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Teaching
Christopher has taught as a visiting lecturer on the Fine Art BA at Coventry University and on the Fine Art Mixed Media BA at the University of Westminster. He has also given a talk on the Fine Art BA at the Ruskin school of art, Oxford.
Writing
2023
Solène Gün bio text
2022
Jeano Edwards, In the Wake of a Glow, Exhibition Text
2021
Jeano Edwards - EverWonderful Introduction
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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
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
Slewe Gallery
Ryan Christopher interview with Raimundas Malašauskas
London Arts Board
Recent Activity
Dazed
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Teaching
Christopher has taught as a visiting lecturer on the Fine Art BA at Coventry University and on the Fine Art Mixed Media BA at the University of Westminster. He has also given a talk on the Fine Art BA at the Ruskin school of art, Oxford.
Writing
2023
Solène Gün bio text
2022
Jeano Edwards, In the Wake of a Glow, Exhibition Text
2021
Jeano Edwards - EverWonderful Introduction
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