Born 1976, Sydney
Lives and works in Sydney
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Christopher Horder
Christopher Horder has been painting and exhibiting nationally and internationally for over twenty years. His innovative approach echoes the techniques of oriental Masters combined with the abstract expressionists of the 1950's. The paintings capture a dynamic force of the metaphysical aspects of paint itself. The exploration of the alchemy between artist and nature is the driving force in capturing these epic cured stains of unpremeditated and primordial imagery.
Horder is a finalist of multiple major art prizes and scholarships including the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship and Dobell Prize. His paintings are in major public and private collection in Australia and around the world.
Horder was filmed painting a canvas for a music video for Australian alternative rock band Holy Holy's 2017 album titled PAINT. The band also featured artists James Drinkwater and Lotti Consalvo in clips for individual tracks on the album.
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Christopher Horder feature in Qantas Magazine: Travel Insider
9 July 2025
When Sydney-born painter Christopher Horder was in Year 10, his English teacher gave him Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel On The Road. Influenced by its anti-conformist message, Horder left school a year later to enrol in a Diploma of Fine Arts at TAFE. “I had to go and start doing what I wanted to do,” he says. Soon after, Horder rented a space at Lennox Street Studios in Sydney’s Newtown, where, aside from a productive year in Berlin in 2010, he’s been painting on and off for 30 years.
\ Exhibitions featuring Christopher Horder
Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm Saturday, 11am - 4pm Easter 2025: The gallery will closed from 18 - 21 April Closed Public Holidays (and Easter Saturday)