Selected Works / Shows
Early Baptismal Fonts
Eclogue St. Perpetua, Slewe Gallery (Solo)
Early Baptismal Fonts, Words Before Commas, Poplars: Basilica Pacis
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)
Early Baptismal Fonts, Words Before Commas, Poplars: Basilica Pacis
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)
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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 across sculpture, sound, and text to consider the narrative potential within fragmented compositions of indexical materials—examining how, through their arrangement, remnants of human experience and thought might be reconfigured as propositions and prompts for inquiry. His practice draws on the formal and discursive properties of historical texts, architecture, and music, engaging diverse sources—including early Christian history (with a transregional focus on North Africa, Ethiopia, and Asia Minor) and religious metaphysics. Historical religious texts that critique the dominant ideologies of their time are of particular interest, as are inquiries into the relations between intangible entities and material forms, and the intermediaries—or ‘pores’—through which such interactions may occur.
Specific historical notions and experiences concerning the natural world, divine contact, absence, contradiction, and necessity are suggested through indexical materials such as blinds, printed texts, sound recordings, and plastic models of baptismal fonts. These materials function as indexes of inner workings and means of establishing connections; approached not as resolved objects, but as cues for interior movement. Adopting the form of fragments, they are arranged into concise narrative compositions, shaped by subtle, methodical gestures.
Of particular interest are historical theological and cross-cultural exchanges—especially within contexts of socio-political instability—from which shared signifiers emerge that disclose aspects of a common lot, whether in suffering or the inherent complexities of subjectivity. Central to these inquiries is a prevailing concern with how voices borne from such contexts relate to the present, and how they might collectively form a record of human needs and consolations.
Philosophical inquiry and historical experience thus constitute the basis of his practice, inviting viewers to engage with the complex and intangible phenomena that constitute both expansive and particular 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 the narrative potential within fragmented compositions of indexical materials—examining how, through their arrangement, remnants of human experience and thought might be reconfigured as propositions and prompts for inquiry. His practice draws on the formal and discursive properties of historical texts, architecture, and music, engaging diverse sources—including early Christian history (with a transregional focus on North Africa, Ethiopia, and Asia Minor) and religious metaphysics. Historical religious texts that critique the dominant ideologies of their time are of particular interest, as are inquiries into the relations between intangible entities and material forms, and the intermediaries—or ‘pores’—through which such interactions may occur.
Specific historical notions and experiences concerning the natural world, divine contact, absence, contradiction, and necessity are suggested through indexical materials such as blinds, printed texts, sound recordings, and plastic models of baptismal fonts. These materials function as indexes of inner workings and means of establishing connections; approached not as resolved objects, but as cues for interior movement. Adopting the form of fragments, they are arranged into concise narrative compositions, shaped by subtle, methodical gestures.
Of particular interest are historical theological and cross-cultural exchanges—especially within contexts of socio-political instability—from which shared signifiers emerge that disclose aspects of a common lot, whether in suffering or the inherent complexities of subjectivity. Central to these inquiries is a prevailing concern with how voices borne from such contexts relate to the present, and how they might collectively form a record of human needs and consolations.
Philosophical inquiry and historical experience thus constitute the basis of his practice, inviting viewers to engage with the complex and intangible phenomena that constitute both expansive and particular 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
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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