Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Ryan Gander

Explore popular quotes and sayings by Ryan Gander.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander OBE RA is a British artist. Gander is a wheelchair user who does not identify as being disabled. He explains: "I don't even feel disabled. I've spent my whole life trying not to be disabled, so I don't want to be labelled a "disabled artist." Since 2003, Gander has produced a body of artworks in different forms, ranging from sculpture, apparel, writing, architecture, painting, typefaces, publications, and performance. Additionally, Gander curates exhibitions, has worked as an educator at art institutions and universities, and has written and presented television programmes on and about contemporary art and culture for the BBC.

Born: 1976
Sometimes buying the ugly work is the thing that you know you should do.
I have a merely ethical and moral relationship to collecting. Whereby I never collect things that I necessarily like. I collect things by young artists who don't have any money because I need to give them some money! Because I think that they should carry on whether I like it or not.
I wasn't taken to anywhere I would have gone if I was alone. — © Ryan Gander
I wasn't taken to anywhere I would have gone if I was alone.
I always say artists must broaden their research. I go to casinos, fly fishing, to show apartments in new residential buildings, watch fairs, the football, ikebana courses, survival expeditions, Dungeons & Dragons nights, and it doesn't matter which of these I personally want to do — that is my job. That’s true research; otherwise, it would be a bit like masturbating.
An "I know what I like" mentality is hard to shake, but of course appreciation has space for being challenged.
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