Toby Christian

 

 

Toby Christian’s (b. 1983, Boston, Lincolnshire, UK) practice is wide ranging, multifaceted, incorporating installation and sculpture, drawing as well as animation and importantly writing. Precise and objective, his works can be seen as post-modern dérives; close readings which position a viewer, a reader, in new emotive proximities with the ‘stuff’ of his subject matter—be this the arbitrary and mundane or the antiquated museological.

 

 

 

 

Education. Toby studied at Wimbledon College of Art, London before completing his postgraduate training at the Royal Academy Schools in 2012, where he was awarded the Gold Medal.

 

Select exhibitions. String Figures / Fadenspiele, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland (2024); Total Theatre ESP, Belmacz, London, UK (2024); Lorem Ipsum | Objetos Nunca Morrem, CAMA São Paulo & Verniz, São Paulo, Brazil (2024); Flash_Looking, Belmacz, London, UK (2024); After Mallarmé, Large Glass, London, UK (2024); no odonata, Belmacz, London, UK (2023); Interpolations II, Galerija Prozori, Zagreb, Croatia (2022); Lazy Bones, Casanova, São Paulo, Brazil (2021); Derma, an online exhibition, Baró Galeria, Palma, Spain (2020); Der Bote ist der Tote, Mauve, Vienna, Austria (2020); Burners, Alessandro Albanese, Milan, Italy, (2019); Old School New Body, Gallery Celine, Glasgow, UK (2019); Parallel Vienna, with Judith Leupi, presented by Gallery Celine, Glasgow, UK (2018); Mantel, Copperfield Gallery, London, UK (2018); The News, curated by David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, for Swimming Pool, Sofia, Bulgaria (2017); Quiz 2, MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (2016); Pedestrian Confetti, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Leeds, UK (2015); A Bunch of Keys, nam Project, Milan, Italy (2015); The Plastically Parroting, Intermedia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK (2014); A Belgian Fence, RH Contemporary Art, New York, USA (2014); The Tread and the Rise, Baró Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil (2013); Drawing Biennial 2013, The Drawing Room, London, UK (2013); Unseen Blows, Seventeen, London, UK (2012); Aspiration Factory, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium (2012); Transcending, LARM Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark (2010); Psychedelia Paradise, Galerie D’Art Contemporain, Toulouse, France (2009); Stage Hands, Fold Gallery, London, UK (2009).

 

Publications and writing. Toby has published three books: Commuters, Koenig Books (2021); Collar, Koenig Books (2017); Measures, Koenig Books (2013). His writing has also been published internationally via platforms such as Parrhesiades, This Long Century and Art Licks.

 

Toby lives and works in London, where he is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London (UK).

Artworks

  • Sphinx

    Toby Christian

    Sphinx, 2024

    marble
    56.5 x 34 x 14 cm

  • 09.12

    Toby Christian

    09.12, 2018

    marble
    13 x 9 x 7 cm

  • 17.10

    Toby Christian

    17.10, 2019

    marble
    3.5 x 7 x 7 cm

  • Stringer Study (Transfer)

    Toby Christian

    Stringer Study (Transfer), 2022

    carbon copy on unprimed linen, artist's frame
    40 x 30 cm / 41.2 x 31.2 cm framed

  • Stringer Study (Scratched Waxing Flame)

    Toby Christian

    Stringer Study (Scratched Waxing Flame), 2022

    carbon copy on unprimed linen, artist's frame
    40 x 30 cm / 41.2 x 31.2 cm framed

  • Spoke Pillars Clung

    Toby Christian

    Spoke Pillars Clung, 2024

    reconstructed paper and marble
    31 x 23 x 3 cm

  • Spoke Pillars Clung (detail)

    Toby Christian

    Spoke Pillars Clung (detail), 2024

    reconstructed paper and marble
    31 x 23 x 3 cm

  • Sun Yard Lemon

    Toby Christian

    Sun Yard Lemon, 2021

    reconstituted paper
    27 x 16 x 3.5 cm

  • Sun Yard Lemon (detail)

    Toby Christian

    Sun Yard Lemon (detail), 2021

    reconstituted paper
    27 x 16 x 3.5 cm

  • Smokeless Bunting Something

    Toby Christian

    Smokeless Bunting Something, 2021

    reconstituted paper
    23.5 x 18.5 x 3.5 cm

  • Drives Often Understory

    Toby Christian

    Drives Often Understory, 2023

    carrara marble, chalk and string on painted board in artists frame
    60.5 x 47 x 3.5 (framed)

  • Drives Often Understory

    Toby Christian

    Drives Often Understory, 2023

    [detail crop] carrara marble, chalk and string on painted board in artists frame,
    60.5 x 47 x 3.5 cm

  • Plan (sticks)

    Toby Christian

    Plan (sticks), 2015

    coloured pencil on concrete
    29.7 x 21 x 1 cm

  • Transfer

    Toby Christian

    Transfer, 2020

    giclee print on 300 gsm Hanhemuhle photo rag
    13 x 10 cm / 43 x 30.7 cm framed (ed. 7 +2AP)

  • Slow Spike

    Toby Christian

    Slow Spike, 2020

    giclee print on 300 gsm Hanhemuhle photo rag
    13 x 10 cm / 43 x 30.7 cm framed (ed. 7 +2AP)

  • Climber

    Toby Christian

    Climber, 2020

    giclee print on 300 gsm Hanhemuhle photo rag
    13 x 10 cm / 43 x 30.7 cm framed (ed. 7 +2AP)

  • Transfer

    Toby Christian

    Transfer, 2020

    giclee print on 300 gsm Hanhemuhle photo rag
    13 x 10 cm / 43 x 30.7 cm framed (ed. 7 +2AP)

  • Tourbillion

    Toby Christian

    Tourbillion, 2020

    giclee print on 300 gsm Hanhemuhle photo rag
    13 x 10 cm / 43 x 30.7 cm framed (ed. 7 +2AP)

  • Eyelash

    Toby Christian

    Eyelash, 2020

    giclee print on 300 gsm Hanhemuhle photo rag
    13 x 10 cm / 43 x 30.7 cm framed (ed. 7 +2AP)

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