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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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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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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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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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