For Christopher Steenson’s solo exhibition 'All I see is the present', the artist combines sound photography, installation and archival material to explore the ways in which moments from prehistory can be used as a gateway to the present. The exhibition is the first manifestation of the artist’s long-term engagement with research exploring the prehistoric past of the island of Ireland.
About the Artist
With a practice that spans sound, lens-based media, text and digital systems, Christopher Steenson’s (b.1992, North of Ireland) work bridges historical and speculative narratives to interrogate the politics of time, environment and more-than-human-relations. In approaching these concerns, he seeks to make work through which we can ‘listen across tenses’.
Recent solo exhibitions include: They haven’t gone away you know, mother’s tankstation, Dublin (2025); Breath Variations, Flat Time House, London (2023); and Soft Rains Will Come, VISUAL, Carlow, (2022).
Recent group presentations include: New Contemporaries at South London Gallery and MIMA, Middlesbrough (both 2026); The Air We Share, Galway Arts Centre, Galway (2025); The Sky is Falling!, Ormston House, Limerick (2024); mother tongue, The MAC, Belfast (2024); inching towards, Freelands Foundation, London (2024); Penumbra, LAVA, Mexico City (2024); and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The World Was All Before Them, Galway (2022). In 2020, Christopher Steenson presented On Chorus a national public sound artwork utilising Ireland’s network of train station PA systems. His work is held in the Arts Council of Ireland Collection.
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'All I see is the present' is supported by: The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City & Strabane District Council, Garfield Weston Foundation, The Arts Council of Ireland, The Elephant Trust, Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive