Dr Chris Evans

Liverpool School of Art and Design

Faculty: Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

School: Liverpool School of Art and Design

Chris Evans is an artist and a Reader in Contemporary Fine Art. He teaches at Liverpool School of Art and Design and De Ateliers, Amsterdam.

Evans' art practice often evolves through conversation with people from diverse walks of life, selected in relation to their public life or symbolic role, for example, the directors of a leading champagne house, a former member of the British Constructivists, the CEO of a Texas pharmaceutical company, a selection of elderly Italian politicians, an anonymous philanthropist etc. Sculptures, letters, drawings, film scripts and unwieldy social situations created as a result of this, are indexes of a larger structure through which Evans deliberately confuses the roles of artist and patron, author and muse. Likewise his role in this is contradictory: moving between artistic freedom and social responsibility, individuality and the collective, sovereignty and involvement. He is interested in the notion of the monument and its discontent and the hidden relations behind the fruition of a cultural object for public use – for example, how beliefs, social status and ideological positions are negotiated in the work of art – and how these might be questioned through the invention of absurd alternative procedures to produce sculpture. Through a desire to make art that has at it outset political motivation - finding fault lines in the politicisation of culture - its utilitarian function as social ameliorative or harbinger of urban regeneration - Evans is intent on maintaining its connection with personal, poetic or imaginative investigation.

Languages

Spanish; Castilian

Degrees

2020, Northumbria University, United Kingdom, PhD
1993, Winchester School of Art in Barcelona, Spain, MA Fine Art

Highlighted publications

Evans CJ. Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform Author Url Publisher Url

Composition

Evans C, Potter RC. 2022. SUDDEN WEALTH with Roy Claire Potter Author Url Publisher Url

Artefact

Evans C. 2018. A Sculpture for the Councillor of Culture (Neuchâtel) Author Url Publisher Url

Evans C. 2018. Home Economics Author Url Publisher Url

Evans C. 2017. Cowlick Author Url Publisher Url

Evans C. 2017. Jingle Author Url Publisher Url

Evans C. 2015. Errors Hit Orient Author Url Publisher Url

Evans CJ. 2014. A Needle Walks Into a Haystack Author Url Publisher Url

Evans C. 2014. Untitled (Drippy Etiquette), Author Url Publisher Url

Evans C. 2005. Cop Talk Author Url

Evans CJ. Home Entertainment Author Url

Book

Evans C. 2011. Goofy Audit, Collected Works, 1998-2011 9781934105740

International Project Space Birmingham E. 2007. Militant bourgeois

Evans C. 2001. Gemini Sculpture Park

Exhibition

Evans CJ. Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform Author Url Publisher Url

Evans CJ. Village Lawyer Author Url Publisher Url

Evans CJ. Chris Evans, Pak Sheung Chuen Two solo exhibitions Author Url Publisher Url

Evans CJ. Clerk of Mind, Author Url Publisher Url

Evans CJ, Bernstein D, Connor F, Jamison AF, Sijben R, Ziqiang Wu J, Vajda D. Bureau of Unspecified Services Author Url Publisher Url

Highlighted activities

External committees:

Board of Trustees, Liverpool Biennial, Trustee, https://www.biennial.com/.

Professional activities

Conference presentation:

ARTISTS' IDEALS AND THE IDEAL CURATOR - Chris Evans & Praxes, ARTISTS' IDEALS AND THE IDEAL CURATOR, Witte de With, Oral presentation. 2016

Chris Evans & Praxis, Berlin, Artists’ Ideals and the Ideal Curator, Witte de With, Oral presentation. 2016