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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

Eusebian Canon Ornaments

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
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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
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Synnøve Reading/Perpetua, Augustine
2023
Audio
03:08
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Ethiopian Evangelical Church in Gothenburg
2022
HD video
5:55
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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 precarious or 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 may navigate necessity and mortality, articulate divine contact, or probe contradictions and thresholds.

Recurring textual allusions to natural phenomena and living organisms—wind, rain, sunlight, rue, achillea, lilies, and birds, among others—underpin the works, offering counterpoints to the particularity inherent in their material choices.

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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