Ryan Barrett
Ceramic sculpture
between clay and code.
London
An orchestrator of controlled chaos. A sculptor of hard edges in naturalistic worlds.
Each piece begins as a digital file, drawn in virtual reality, and ends in the kiln. Ryan's digital coiling method, his own form of 3D clay printing, runs on a coiling system he engineered himself and lays up to 10,000 layers of clay, depending on the designed form. The work is then carved, worked by hand and fired under natural glazes and minerals.
2021, No. 1
About
Raised in Suffolk. Trained at Goldsmiths, London, across sculpture, painting and textile design. Then print design in New York, before clay.
Ryan is a London ceramic artist making large-scale sculpture through digital coiling and 3D clay printing. His forms draw on antique constructions and the monumental shapes of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. His textile background shows in everything: a pull toward surface, texture and the cascading movement of natural glazes and minerals. Self-taught in clay, he set up his first studio in his grandmother's shed in 2013. Work is developed in series, each one a variation on form.
“When you first see Ryan's sculptural work you become mesmerized by its billowing sense of movement.”
John Rigas, Director, Asprey
Selected exhibitions Full CV
- 2026Curated CeramicsSotheby’s Auction, London
- 2024Solo exhibition, Surfaces 036Asprey Studio Gallery, Mayfair, London
- 2023Inaugural exhibitionAsprey Studio Gallery, Mayfair, London
- 2023Group showOsaka, Japan
- 2021Solo exhibitionOscar Graf Gallery, Mayfair, London
