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ryanclhart98@gmail.com
Selected Works
2024
Eclogue St. Perpetua, Slewe Gallery (Solo)
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2023
De Ateliers Offspring 2023 - Raamvertelling (View)
Woonhuis +1 (View)
2023 selected works (View)
Woonhuis Opening - Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth (View)
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2022
A Morsel of Curd (Solo)
TG, Nottingham (View)
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2024
Eclogue St. Perpetua, Slewe Gallery (Solo)
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2023
De Ateliers Offspring 2023 - Raamvertelling (View)
Woonhuis +1 (View)
2023 selected works (View)
Woonhuis Opening - Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth (View)
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2022
A Morsel of Curd (Solo)
TG, Nottingham (View)
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Video/Sound
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Ethiopian Evangelical Church in Gothenburg
2022
HD video
5:55
(View)
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Peristalsis in Sheep Large Bowel
2023
Silent Video
03:15
(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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Peristalsis in Sheep Large Bowel
2023
Silent Video
03:15
(View)
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Synnøve Reading/Perpetua, Augustine
2023
Audio
03:08
(View)
About
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Ryan Christopher (b.1998, UK) is an artist working through sculpture, sound and video to consider material relations within elliptical narratives. His practice is a process of amalgamation which draws on the formal and indexical properties of found materials. Fragments of Christian thought, ancient poetry, philosophy and early North and East African Christian history are spatially organised into concise narratives, often referencing historical figures. These compositions describe experiences of absence, providence, divine self-disclosure and the natural world, involving gestures that are slight and considered.
An inquiry into iterations of paradox permeates both the materials used, such as blinds, plaster and religious texts, and the notions explored within the work. Through connections between sculptural descriptions and inquiries, the viewer is directed to an inward space in which images, narratives and thoughts can merge.
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Ryan Christopher (b.1998, UK) is an artist working through sculpture, sound and video to consider material relations within elliptical narratives. His practice is a process of amalgamation which draws on the formal and indexical properties of found materials. Fragments of Christian thought, ancient poetry, philosophy and early North and East African Christian history are spatially organised into concise narratives, often referencing historical figures. These compositions describe experiences of absence, providence, divine self-disclosure and the natural world, involving gestures that are slight and considered.
An inquiry into iterations of paradox permeates both the materials used, such as blinds, plaster and religious texts, and the notions explored within the work. Through connections between sculptural descriptions and inquiries, the viewer is directed to an inward space in which images, narratives and thoughts can merge.
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Education
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
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
Home by Ronan Mckenzie - Finding Joy, Birmingham
Photocopies, Recent Activity, Birmingham
Birmingham by Night, Roundhouse Birmingham
Multiplicity of us, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
Poetic Sustenance, Tiwani Contemporary, London
Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Essex
The Molasses Gallery, London
Spatial Intervention, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
The Mountain Garden, Herbert Art Gallery, Grain Projects (Online)
2020
Herbert Open, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
2019
Rugby Open, Rugby Art Gallery, Rugby
A Space Between, Birmingham
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
Open Projections, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry
Coventry Drawing Prize, Classroom Gallery, Coventry
International Refugee Week, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry
International Women's Day, St. Marys Guildhall, Coventry
2018
Ryan Christopher & Smilo Mathias, The Box, Fargo Village, Coventry
CWDT, Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, London
2017
CWDT, Tottenham, London
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Text
Coventry Biennial
London Arts Board
Tiwani Contemporary
Recent Activity
Herbert Art Gallery, Grain Projects Commission
Focal Point Gallery
Mutual Art
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I-D
Dazed
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Teaching
Christopher has taught as a visiting lecturer on the Fine Art BA at Coventry University. 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
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
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
Home by Ronan Mckenzie - Finding Joy, Birmingham
Photocopies, Recent Activity, Birmingham
Birmingham by Night, Roundhouse Birmingham
Multiplicity of us, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
Poetic Sustenance, Tiwani Contemporary, London
Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Essex
The Molasses Gallery, London
Spatial Intervention, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
The Mountain Garden, Herbert Art Gallery, Grain Projects (Online)
2020
Herbert Open, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
2019
Rugby Open, Rugby Art Gallery, Rugby
A Space Between, Birmingham
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
Open Projections, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry
Coventry Drawing Prize, Classroom Gallery, Coventry
International Refugee Week, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry
International Women's Day, St. Marys Guildhall, Coventry
2018
Ryan Christopher & Smilo Mathias, The Box, Fargo Village, Coventry
CWDT, Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, London
2017
CWDT, Tottenham, London
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Text
Coventry Biennial
London Arts Board
Tiwani Contemporary
Recent Activity
Herbert Art Gallery, Grain Projects Commission
Focal Point Gallery
Mutual Art
.
I-D
Dazed
.
Teaching
Christopher has taught as a visiting lecturer on the Fine Art BA at Coventry University. 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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