Christopher Kelly is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, craft, and design, with a background in art direction, prop making, and award-winning fashion and moving image. For over 20 years, their practice has centred on the hand-made object and material experimentation.

Christopher's current body of work, Interwoven: Neurodiversity and the Creative Mind, explores the relationship between their Neurodivergence and creative practice, particularly through large-scale crochet sculpture. The project has evolved across multiple exhibitions and workshops, beginning with a 2023 solo show at Central Saint Martins Museum and expanding through Interwoven: Dis/functional at Future Icons Selects (2024), and Interwoven; overGrown — a collaboration with furniture designer Daniel Hayden exhibited at Enso Gallery, London (2024).

Christopher has lectured in art and design at Central Saint Martin’s since 2012, with a focus on contextual studies, creative experimentation, and fostering instinctive approaches in emerging artists. As a Neurodivergent artist with ADHD and ASD, he incorporates lived experience into teaching, workshops, and making — exploring the possibilities of compulsive creation, sensation, and embodiment through form and material.

Unravel... autumn talk

Interwoven: Neurodiversity and the Creative Mind

Friday 12 September, 10.30am in the Long Kiln

Artist Christopher Kelly presents Interwoven, an ongoing multidisciplinary project exploring the relationship between Neurodivergence and the creative process. Through large-scale Crocheted sculptures made from jute, hemp, cardboard, and found fibres, Kelly reflects on masking, code-switching, and the sensory patterns of Neurodivergent experience. Rooted in community collaboration and lived experience, the work is a powerful meditation on resilience, structure, and the quiet labour of navigating a world not built for you.