Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander
September 11—November 1, 2015
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

Make every show like it's your last Ryan Gander

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A lamp made by the artist for his wife (seventieth attempt), 2015 (left) LED light strip, finish rod handle, boballs and carbine clip A lamp made by the artist for his wife (sixty sixth attempt), 2015 (right) Terracotta building brick, kitchen unit leg, microphone clamp, butter knife, bulb cage and various electrical components Each one of Gander's lamps is assembled from elements that can appear entirely unsuitable for this function but cohere in unexpected ways to create touching sculptures that are functional lamps. The notion of the homemade doubles as lyrical evocations of the power of imagination and as playful interrogation of what may constitute a work of art. Photo © Site Photography

Exhibition views

<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p>Exhibition view,</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p>Exhibition view,</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>A lamp made by the artist for his wife (sixty sixth attempt)</strong>, 2015</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>A lamp made by the artist for his wife (seventieth attempt)</strong>, 2015</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>A lamp made by the artist for his wife (sixty ninth attempt)</strong>, 2015</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>A lamp made by the artist for his wife (sixty eight attempt)</strong>, 2015</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>A lamp made by the artist for his wife (sixty third attempt)</strong>, 2015</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>A lamp made by the artist for his wife (fifty second attempt)</strong>, 2015</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>A lamp made by the artist for his wife (sixty firth attempt)</strong>, 2015</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>A lamp made by the artist for his wife (sixtieth attempt)</strong>, 2015</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>A lamp made by the artist for his wife (fifty sixth attempt)</strong>, 2015</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>A lamp made by the artist for his wife (sixty fourth attempt)</strong>, 2015</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>Magnus Opus</strong>, 2013</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p><p> </p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p>Exhibition view,</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>Magnus Opus</strong>, 2013</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>A lamp made by the artist for his wife (seventy first attempt)</strong>, 2015</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>Please be patient - Penny Ever Gander smiling at Olive May Gander in the Darkness, the Midland Hotel, Manchester, Tuesday, 22nd of July, 2014</strong>, 2014</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>I is... (V)</strong>, 2013</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><b>And what if no one believes this truth</b>, 2014</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><b>I is... (VI)</b>, 2013</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><b>Two hundred and sixty six degrees</b>, 2014</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><b>I is... (IV)</b>, 2013</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><b>Opus magnus</b>, 2013</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p>Exhibition view,</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><p><strong>Imagineering</strong>, 2013</p><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>
<div class="image_caption_container"><div class="image_caption"><div class="page" title="Page 32"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><strong>Career seeking missile, </strong><span>2011 </span></p></div></div></div><p><strong>Make every show like it's your last</strong>, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015</p><p>© Site Photography</p></div></div>

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Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander was born in 1976 in Chester, England. He received his First Class Degree, BA (Hons) in Interactive Art at Manchester Metropolitan University and was a Post-Graduate Fine Art Participant at...
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'Ryan Gander's work ranges across a dizzying spectrum of forms and ideas. His meticulously researched projects - which have included such diverse conceptual gestures as an invented word, a chess set, a...
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