Christopher Samuel is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in identity and disability politics. Often echoing the many facets of his own lived experience as a Black disabled man, his work tells stories, highlighting the often unseen experiences of his day-to-day life and those of others in similar circumstances.
His practice includes small, detailed ink drawings, film, print, audio, research, and large installations. Samuel works alongside galleries, museums, archives and other institutions to address missing representation in our cultural spaces.
Samuel is part of Cripping Breath, a year-long interdisciplinary project developed in partnership with the University of Sheffield and supported by the Wellcome Trust. Through this work, he contributes to an ongoing exploration of breathing as lived experience. He will take part in a series of residencies at The Art House across 2026 and 2027, leading to the development of new work and a public presentation in late 2027.