My practice spans a range of media and approaches, including; socially engaged projects, video essays, textile banners, and publications. I address an array of interconnected social, political, economic and environmental concerns, including; public space, mythology, soft power, tax avoidance, Britain's colonial history, and climate justice, amongst others.
Since 2021, I’ve been working in collaboration with Emily Simpson on a project regarding grief, the lack of language for expressing it, and the creation of public spaces for it to be shared. We host intimate dinners, workshops, and karaoke events. We have published recipe collections, designed posters, and produced a large-scale textile installation that has toured to galleries and museums.
Exhibitions & commissions include; Grief Must be Love With Nowhere to Go, Bloc Projects (2024, with Emily Simpson); Tied to Everything Else, Paradise Works, Salford (2023); The slabs whistle; a song under my wheels, KARST & Take A Part (2022); Throughout the Fragment of Infinity That We Have Come to Know, The NewBridge Project, Gateshead (2020); Link & Shift, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2019); Survey, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art; Bluecoat, Liverpool; g39, Cardiff; & Jerwood Space, London (2018-19); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery; & Liverpool Biennial (2018-19); Adam Speaks, The National Trust, Croome, Worcestershire (2017); and Outdancing Formations, Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg (2015).
My writing and interviews have been published by Corridor8 and Young Artists in Conversation.
Since 2021, I’ve been working in collaboration with Emily Simpson on a project regarding grief, the lack of language for expressing it, and the creation of public spaces for it to be shared. We host intimate dinners, workshops, and karaoke events. We have published recipe collections, designed posters, and produced a large-scale textile installation that has toured to galleries and museums.
Exhibitions & commissions include; Grief Must be Love With Nowhere to Go, Bloc Projects (2024, with Emily Simpson); Tied to Everything Else, Paradise Works, Salford (2023); The slabs whistle; a song under my wheels, KARST & Take A Part (2022); Throughout the Fragment of Infinity That We Have Come to Know, The NewBridge Project, Gateshead (2020); Link & Shift, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2019); Survey, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art; Bluecoat, Liverpool; g39, Cardiff; & Jerwood Space, London (2018-19); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery; & Liverpool Biennial (2018-19); Adam Speaks, The National Trust, Croome, Worcestershire (2017); and Outdancing Formations, Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg (2015).
My writing and interviews have been published by Corridor8 and Young Artists in Conversation.
Photo by Dom MooreTo get in touch about exhibitions, workshops, teaching, sales or anything else, please email me at:
︎ chrisjalton@gmail.com
︎ @chrisalton