Christopher Kelly is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, craft, and design. For the past two decades, his practice has centred on handmade objects and material experimentation, exploring the possibilities of compulsive creation, sensation, and embodiment through form and substance.
Operating within the expanded field of fibre and textile sculpture, his work employs tactile knowledge and haptic memory, drawing upon the slow, meditative labour of weaving, macramé, and crochet. Executed in salvaged and elemental materials including jute twine, hemp rope, found fibres, and natural matter such as eggshells, his works articulate a sensory language that is both deeply personal and socially resonant.
Kelly’s practice is a direct communication of his neurodivergent experience, exploring how cognitive difference shapes emotional processing, perception, and identity. Using materiality to externalise and share internal states, he creates works that invite empathy and reflection.
A defining aspect of his methodology is a commitment to community engagement, woven into the conceptual fabric of his practice. Collaborations with organisations such as Central Saint Martin’s Museum, Mind UK, Autism Bucks, and the Psychological Professions Network have fostered spaces of shared authorship, where the act of making becomes an expression of solidarity, agency, and mutual recognition.
His ongoing project Interwoven: Neurodiversity and the Creative Mind explores the emotional and cognitive experiences of living with AuDHD through tactile, immersive, and collaborative sculptural works. Recent chapters have been presented at Clerkenwell Design Week, London (Collate Form, May 2025), House of Annetta, London (Brave New Brain, May 2025), Enso Gallery, London (Interwoven: overGrown, October 2024), London Craft Week (Future Icons Selects, May 2024), Central Saint Martin’s Museum, London (Exhibition and workshops, 2023), and through community collaborations with Mind in Camden and the Psychological Professions Network (2024).
Kelly’s work has been featured in publications including Dezeen Magazine, Stir World, and Morphology by Lotje Søderlund (2025), a book exploring neurodivergent creative methodologies.