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.

Toby studied at Wimbledon College of Art, London (UK) before completing his postgraduate training at the Royal Academy Schools, London, in 2012, where he was awarded the Gold Medal. He continues to live and work in London, where he is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins.

Select exhibitions include String Figures / Fadenspiele, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland (2024 – 25); Michela de Mattei + Toby Christian: Flash_Looking, Belmacz, London, UK (2024); no odonata, Belmacz, London, UK (2023); Lazy Bones, Casanova, São Paulo, Brazil (2021); Burners, Alessandro Albanese, Milan, Italy, (2019); Old School New Body, Gallery Celine, Glasgow, UK (2019).

Image as language | review by Shin Hui Lee

Bruised Stones | text by George Vasey

Toby Christian | interview with Max Slaven

Unseen Blows | review by Amy Sherlock

Pedestrian Confetti, 2015 | edition

Measuring, 2013 | edition

Water, 2009 | edition

avalible works

online portfolio

Artworks

Toby Christian
Sphinx, 2024

marble
56.5 x 34 x 14 cm
Toby Christian
09.12, 2018

marble
13 x 9 x 7 cm
Toby Christian
17.10, 2019

marble
3.5 x 7 x 7 cm
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
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
Toby Christian
Spoke Pillars Clung, 2024

reconstructed paper and marble
31 x 23 x 3 cm
Toby Christian
Spoke Pillars Clung (detail), 2024

reconstructed paper and marble
31 x 23 x 3 cm
Toby Christian
Sun Yard Lemon, 2021

reconstituted paper
27 x 16 x 3.5 cm
Toby Christian
Sun Yard Lemon (detail), 2021

reconstituted paper
27 x 16 x 3.5 cm
Toby Christian
Smokeless Bunting Something, 2021

reconstituted paper
23.5 x 18.5 x 3.5 cm
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)
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
Toby Christian
Plan (sticks), 2015

coloured pencil on concrete
29.7 x 21 x 1 cm
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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