Christopher Kelly: Evisceration — Unravelling the Inner Terrain

Christopher Kelly’s solo exhibition Evisceration, on show until 6 March 2026 at Ruup & Form gallery, brings textile sculpture into an unusually open and emotionally resonant space. Working within the expanded field of fibre and sculptural practice, Kelly presents a new body of wall works, suspended forms and furniture-scale pieces that explore material, embodiment and non-linear modes of thinking, positioning neurodivergence not as deviation, but as a generative creative force.

Kelly’s practice has, for more than two decades, centred on handmade processes and material experimentation. Crochet, macramé and weaving form the backbone of his work, techniques chosen not for for their slow, rhythmic and meditative qualities. Using salvaged and elemental materials such as jute twine, hemp rope, found fibres and fragile natural matter such as eggshells, Kelly builds works that feel both grounded and precarious, holding tension between containment and release.

Christopher Kelly, Evisceration No.3, 2025. 

Evisceration marks the fifth chapter of Kelly’s ongoing project Interwoven: Neurodiversity and the Creative Mind, and represents a pivotal moment of exposure within that evolving body of work. Rooted in lived experience of Autism and ADHD, the exhibition examines masking: the often unconscious reshaping of self required to move through neurotypical environments. Here, those internal negotiations are made visible through textile structures that open, unravel and spill outward, resisting neat resolution...

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Image Credits:

Lead: Christoper Kelly, Left: Evisceration No.1, 2025. Right: Contorted No.1, 2025.

All images courtesy of Ruup & Form and as credited in photo captions.