Ryan McClelland

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Ryan McClelland

Industrial Designer & Creative Technologist

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Born in Liverpool in 1978, Ryan McClelland is a London-based artist whose practice explores appropriation, replication, labour, and the circulation of images across analogue and digital cultures. Over the past twenty-five years, his work has investigated how images and objects transform through processes of reuse, translation, and reproduction, often using archival material, degraded digital files, and discarded ephemera as unstable carriers of memory.

He studied Fine Art Printmaking at the Royal College of Art between 2004 and 2007, following earlier studies at Goldsmiths College and Camberwell School of Art. From 2010 to 2012 he was Print Fellow at the Royal Academy Schools. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including the V&A Museum in London, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Academia di Venezia, Temple Bar Gallery in Dublin, G39 Gallery in Cardiff, the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Brazil, William Morris Gallery, and Lismore Castle in County Waterford.
His works are held in public and private collections across Europe and the United States.

For the past five years, his work has increasingly focused on translating compressed digital “poor images” into slow, labour-intensive analogue processes such as woodcut. Rather than restoring authenticity, these works emphasise fragility, disappearance, and persistence. Through carving, printing, layering, and repetition, McClelland examines how labour and memory remain embedded within images despite digital circulation and decay.

Alongside his studio practice, he has collaborated on educational and public projects with organisations including Tate, Art on the Underground, Camden Arts Centre, the Crafts Council, and Green Man Festival. From 2022–2025 he curated the public-facing project Cypher BILLBOARD in North London.

Cut in the Ground (PHOTO FINISH) - 2026
Relief Print with Lithography Ink on Kozo/Mulberry Paper, 95cm x 2.5 metres Edition of 3 (2 Aps)
© Ryan McClelland 2026

B2C - Map ref 51°36'17.5"N 0°07'17.2"W -
Digital Billboard Poster 6m x 2m Commisioned for Cypher BILLBOARD 2026

MIRRORS_IMAGE - (There’s a Ghost in my House).
Relief Print, Lithographic Ink on Kozo Japanese Paper,
2 Panels @ 90 x 125cm each (Edition of 5 + 2 AP) 2025
Photo by Dean Brannagan

Installation Veiw, Print Out - Lismore Castle Arts Ireland 2026
Photo by Jed Niezgoda.

BLACK_BOX [Recorder].
Relief Print, Lithographic Ink on Kozo Japanese Paper,
2 Panels @ 90 x 165cm each (Edition of 5 + 2 AP) 2025
Photo by Dean Brannagan

STILL_LIFE.
Relief Print, Lithographic Ink on Kozo Japanese Paper,
3 Panels @ 90 x 125cm each (Edition of 5 + 2 AP) 2025
Photo by Dean Brannagan