Ryan
Durrant

Ryan Durrant graduated from Newcastle University (BA Hons Fine Art) in 1992. In 1994 he co-founded Bow Arts Trust Studios in London, where he worked until moving to Yorkshire in 2012.

His paintings are made through a process of repetition, creating multiple canvases of apparent similarity, raising questions of originality and uniqueness through the nuances of ‘likeness’ and ‘difference’. Bold and loosely painted, the materiality of the individual canvases co-exists with the imagery of the subject. They are simultaneously abstract and representational; both object and image.

He has exhibited across the UK, and internationally in the USA and Europe. In 2023 he was selected for the John Moores Painting Prize.