![]() Ryan’s chosen titles for his artworks feature time stamps and locations, derived from the specific moments and feelings he’s capturing. ‘I play with them a bit, make little samples, and try to push something in a direction,’ Ryan adds. Nature inspires many of his choices, with the artist drawing on references from the changing sky, to leaves blowing in the wind. ‘My aim has always been to look at traditional materials and practices and manipulate them a little,’ Ryan says.Ĭolour is a big part of his work too. Ranging from 100-200cm tall, they take almost eight weeks to create! ![]() The works are somewhere between sculpture and paintings, thanks to Ryan’s unique technique building layered brush strokes onto disks he ‘casts out of paint’, using a mixture of synthetic polymers and minerals. What he emerged with is his current series of intriguing circular artworks. ![]() On a professor’s suggestion, he recently spent a year living and working in his studio with ‘no social media, no exhibitions and no art books – I just made what I felt’ Ryan says. He’s been working as a full-time artist since 2015, has featured in local and international exhibitions, and spent time living in Sydney, Berlin, and Melbourne. He was 17 when he started his fine arts degree at the National Art School, where he earned a scholarship that took him to the Glasgow School of Art, where he completed his masters. ![]() Ryan Hoffmann is a self-professed ‘art kid’. ![]()
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