About:  The paintings and texts do not represent appearances, they present that which produces appearances. The paintings and the words invent a description of what happens before an image appears; they make manifest movements of appearing. They are not 'about' the production of appearances, they make apparent.

There are various processes of making visible: printing, moulding, repetitive accretion and erasure, description and redescription and techniques that allow both words and materials (paint, paper, glass, wax, plaster) to generate images of themselves, automatically.

The juxtaposition and sequencing of some of these images and texts are presented in ongoing projects (see 'Words' and 'Project Space' pages) carried out on this website.

Born 1960; trained at Goldsmiths College (1980 - 1983 and 1995 - 1999); Mark Ryder lives and works in London.