Esmond works across a variety of media, both 2D and 3D, and on scales ranging from environmental installations to miniature constructions. His work is characterised by a strong interest in sheet and linear structure and a delight in the unexpected in ordinary materials. Although essentially non-representational, his work is concerned with the physical, emotional and psychological language of everyday things. He is much more interested in the mischief and intrigue of how things behave than in what they are.

He has exhibited in many London Venues over the years including the Whitechapel Gallery, Camden Arts Centre and RCA. Internationally he has exhibited in Belgium, Finland and most recently in Ireland where he had a solo exhibition at Markethouse Gallery in Monaghan. In 2003 he exhibited in St. Petersburg where he received a diploma award for his installation at the 6th International Biennale.

John Christie’s prints, constructions, drawings and artists’ books are in many public and private collections worldwide including the Tate Gallery, the V&A, The British Library, The Yale Centre for British Art and the Special Collections Library of MOMA, NY.

His work in this joint exhibition is part of an on-going preoccupation with the constructed, non-representational object. This preoccupation survived the recent move with his family from London to Suffolk and a two-year barn conversion project - these new pieces are the result. An interest in the experiments and energy of early 20th century art and how those visual experiments fed into practical applications such as WW1 disruptive pattern or “Dazzle” camouflage provide some clues to the process and ideas behind these latest, small-scale works.

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