Chris Childs (b. 1998) is an artist based in Bristol, UK, working primarily with animation and drawing. Their moving-image works are created using traditional animation techniques, and display a keen interest in physical materials, such as paper and crayon.
Their works often combine the aesthetics of the animated cartoon with experimental approaches to narrative structure.
Their work has featured at London Short
Film Festival; Videotage; B3
Biennial of the Moving Image; Encounters Film Festival; g39 Cardiff; ICA; Close Up Film Centre; The Horse Hospital; Cardiff Umbrella; Public Works Gallery, Chicago.
In 2022, they were one of six artists selected for the FLAMIN Fellowship (Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network).
‘The physicality and unavoidability of the human body, with its pains, limitations, embarrassments and absurdities is often present, connecting Chris’s work into a certain lineage of British bodily humour in art [...] But the comedic aspect of the work has become increasingly subdued, abstract and existential, and now seems folded in rather than on the surface of the films.’
-Edwin Rostron, Artist/Curator