Evisceration
Solo Exhibition by Christopher Kelly
Preview: Thursday 8 January 2026, 6:00 –8:00 pm, RSVP here essential
Exhibition dates: 9.01.26 – 06.03.26
Venue: Ruup & Form Gallery, 7 Tilney Court, EC1V 9BQ
Christopher Kelly presents Evisceration, a solo exhibition at Ruup & Form that brings the internal terrain of Kelly’s neurodivergent experience into sculptural and spatial form. The exhibition marks the fifth chapter of Kelly’s long running project Interwoven, and represents a pivotal moment of exposure, clarity, and material resolve.
Rooted in lived experience of Autism and Attention Deficit Disorder, Evisceration examines the gradual loosening and shedding of masking. Masking is understood here as the often-unconscious restructuring of self-required to navigate neurotypical environments. Through textile-based sculpture, installation, and furniture scale works, Kelly renders these internal negotiations visible, tactile, and spatially present.
Working with crochet, macramé, weaving, and natural or repurposed materials, Kelly constructs form that oscillate between containment and release. The works open, unravel, and spill outward, holding vulnerability alongside quiet insistence. Emotional intensity is carried through material tension rather than visual excess, creating an environment that feels at once exposed and composed, intimate and assured.
Installed as a series of distinct yet interconnected zones within the gallery, the exhibition invites visitors to move through what Kelly describes as “an inner studio space”. A place where process, fragmentation, and resolution coexist. Sculptural wall works, suspended elements, a curated studio wall, and a key furniture piece titled Stability Chair together form an experience that prioritises emotional honesty and conceptual clarity.
Evisceration offers a compelling dialogue between contemporary art and spatial design, positioning Christopher Kelly’s sculptural works as resonant interventions within high end hospitality and interior environments. Through a refined textile language and an acute sensitivity to scale, tactility, and architectural rhythm, the works bring depth, calm, and emotional resonance to space without visual excess. Kelly’s approach lends itself to environments that prioritise atmosphere, wellbeing, and considered materiality. Hotels, private residences, and public interiors are invited to engage with the work as both sculptural presence and experiential anchor, where craft, narrative, and spatial intelligence converge to create environments that are quietly impactful, enduring, and human centred.
Public Programming
Neuroverse Workshop
5 February 2026
Details to follow
Artist Talk: Christopher Kelly in Conversation
Thursday 5 March, 7–8pm
Details to follow
The artist is available throughout the exhibition period to lead bespoke tours
About Christopher Kelly
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.
About Ruup & Form
Ruup & Form is a curatorially led contemporary gallery in London, championing material led artists who work at the intersection of art, craft and design. Founded in 2019 by Varuna Kollanethu, the gallery is guided by the belief that meticulously made objects can spark cultural change, strengthen community and help us imagine more sustainable futures.
By 2025, Ruup & Form has grown into a platform for ground breaking practices and breakthrough art. Our programme centres on collectible craft and design and contemporary works that reframe how we live with objects across domestic, architectural and public environments. Working with an international cohort of artists, we offer long term support and present research driven exhibitions that bring diverse and often underrepresented voices into thoughtful dialogue. As both cultural catalyst and strategic partner, we collaborate with collectors, institutions, designers and corporate organisations on acquisitions and commissions, always seeking to expand what is possible in material and form.
Ruup & Form moves forward with a clear ambition: to champion artists redefining material intelligence, to cultivate spaces where bold ideas can flourish and to ensure that art, craft and design remain central to how we live, work and connect.
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