CV
b. 1969
Harry Chrystall is a mixed media artist with a predominant interest in the nature of identity and authorship, and how they have evolved and function within the pervading conditions governing the human experience.
With an emphasis on process often involving what we think of as natural phenomena, his means of creation reflect in a literal sense this mysterious relationship between individual and setting.
Education
Fine Art Foundation course – Chelsea School of Art – 1988-1989
BA Fine Art Degree – Goldsmiths College – 1989-1992
MA Fine Art Degree – Chelsea School of Art – 2008-2009
Solo Shows:
2025 - 'A house on the beach is not a dream'. Artspace Woodbridge.
2025 - 'Barrow Intermundium' Butley Mills Gallery.
2024 - 'We are Falling'. Courtyard Gallery, Ballroom Arts. Aldeburgh.
2023 - 'Inklings' Courtyard Gallery, Ballroom Arts, Aldeburgh.
Group shows:
2025 - 'Unfold' . Vanner Gallery, Salisbury.
2024 - 'Silent Actors'. Sculpture in the Valley, Waveney & Blyth Arts, Potton Hall
2023 - 'Foxfire'. Raveningham Sculpture trail.
2022 – 'Travelling man unaware of danger' Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition 2022
2022 – Hampshire Open Studios
2022 – 'Barrow' Raveningham Sculpture Trail
2022 – 'Barrow' Waveney & Blyth Arts Sculpture trail. Potton Hall
2021 – 'Once when the world turned old, Bell, Pyre and Divider' & 'Figures in Ink' Raveningham Sculpture Trail
2021 – 'Inkling' Trinity Buoy Wharf (Shortlisted)
2021 – 'Inkling' Ghost Writer Zine. S.H.A.P.E. Gallery, London
2020 – 'All things being equal' Raveningham Sculpture Trail
2019 – 'Cathedra' Hartlebury Castle
2018 – 'Ouroboros' John Moores Painting Prize (Shortlisted)
2018 – 'Surface Paintings' S.H.A.P.E. Gallery, London
2017 – 'Trivial Things' S.H.A.P.E. Gallery, London
2016 – 'Limelight' S.H.A.P.E. Gallery, London
2015 – 'Hiding Drugs In Trees' S.H.A.P.E. Gallery, London
2013 – 'Transparent Things' Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2013 – 'White Spirits' S.H.A.P.E. Gallery, London
2012 – 'White Spirits' Acava Hetley Road Open Studios, London
2012 – 'Transparent Things' John Moores Painting Prize (Shortlisted)
2012 – 'Bronze in the Breath' Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize Exhibition, W.H.Paterson Gallery, London
2012 – 'Bronze in the Breath' Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize Exhibition, Mall Gallery, London
2011 – 'Bronze in the Breath' Threadneedle Prize for Painting (Shortlisted)
2011 – 'Morning Song' Park House, London
2010 – The Whitechapel Gallery East End Academy Studio Prize
2010 – 'Fragments, Places and Fantasies' Prop, Whitechapel East End Academy Studio Prize, London
2008 – 'Not a Place' MA Final Show, Chelsea School of Art
2008 – Bloomberg New Contemporaries (Shortlisted)
2008 – Future Map (Shortlisted)
2006 – 'Little Deaths' Tabooboo Gallery, London
2005 – Westminster Arts Council Photography Scholarship
2005 – 'Park Pictures' The Curzon Cinema, London
2005 – 'Primitive States' Oxo Gallery, London