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Ryan McClelland | Shadowplay

£2,250.00
Relief Print, Lithographic Ink On Kozo Japanese Paper, 90 X 125Cm (Edition Of 5 + 2 Ap) 2025
Edition of 5
Dimensions (WxH): 100 x 135cm

Ryan McClelland is a London-based artist, educator and curator whose practice explores the relationship between memory, labour, and image reproduction through contemporary printmaking. Working across relief print, cyanotype, collage and installation, he investigates how images circulate, degrade and persist across digital and analogue environments. Drawing upon found photographs, online archives, social media imagery and other forms of ephemeral visual culture, McClelland translates low-resolution and often overlooked source material into labour-intensive physical artworks. Through processes of carving, printing, repetition and replication, he examines themes of spectrality, hauntology, nostalgia and the unstable nature of personal and collective memory. The slippages, imperfections and material traces that emerge through making become integral to the work, revealing the distance between an original image and its physical reconstruction. McClelland holds an MFA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art and was Print Fellow at the Royal Academy Schools. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, William Morris Gallery and Lismore Castle Arts. Alongside his studio practice, he teaches, curates public art projects, and contributes to research exploring the role of printmaking within contemporary visual culture.
Relief Print, Lithographic Ink On Kozo Japanese Paper, 90 X 125Cm (Edition Of 5 + 2 Ap) 2025
Edition of 5
Dimensions (WxH): 100 x 135cm

Ryan McClelland is a London-based artist, educator and curator whose practice explores the relationship between memory, labour, and image reproduction through contemporary printmaking. Working across relief print, cyanotype, collage and installation, he investigates how images circulate, degrade and persist across digital and analogue environments. Drawing upon found photographs, online archives, social media imagery and other forms of ephemeral visual culture, McClelland translates low-resolution and often overlooked source material into labour-intensive physical artworks. Through processes of carving, printing, repetition and replication, he examines themes of spectrality, hauntology, nostalgia and the unstable nature of personal and collective memory. The slippages, imperfections and material traces that emerge through making become integral to the work, revealing the distance between an original image and its physical reconstruction. McClelland holds an MFA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art and was Print Fellow at the Royal Academy Schools. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, William Morris Gallery and Lismore Castle Arts. Alongside his studio practice, he teaches, curates public art projects, and contributes to research exploring the role of printmaking within contemporary visual culture.