ABOUT THE ARTIST
Christopher Stone (The Lost Artist) is a British contemporary sculptor, painter and designer whose career spans more than five decades.
Educated at Hornsey College of Art and Central Saint Martins in London, Stone spent eighteen years working alongside the celebrated sculptor Barry Flanagan, contributing to the creation and production of major works that became part of the international contemporary art landscape.
Working across monumental Cor-Ten steel, bronze, fibreglass and paint, Stone has developed a distinctive artistic language that combines industrial strength, humour, colour and storytelling. His work ranges from large-scale public sculpture to contemporary paintings and mixed-media works held in private collections throughout Europe and beyond.
Stone is currently exhibiting at the Art + Soul International Sculpture Exhibition in Ireland alongside works by Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, Banksy, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, together with many of today's leading Irish and international contemporary artists.
Represented by Gormleys Fine Art in Ireland and by Sofia Gómez Fonzo at Olas Gallery in Ibiza, Stone has built an international career that has largely unfolded outside the glare of the mainstream art world. Often described as one of contemporary art's best-kept secrets, his work has earned the respect of collectors, galleries and fellow artists through more than half a century of continuous practice.
Based in Ibiza, Christopher Stone continues to create ambitious new sculpture, paintings and public artworks. After more than fifty years as a working artist, his practice remains as energetic, inventive and uncompromising as ever.
His work draws on a lifetime of experience that few contemporary artists can match, combining craftsmanship, imagination and a uniquely independent vision that continues to evolve with every new project.

 

An artist/maker. He works with paint, plaster, steel and bronze — the same way some people work with words.

He has worked in the world as a sculptor, with pieces now living in different places far beyond where they were made. Most of them — almost all — were born in Ibiza. Some were conceived years earlier, in other places, at other times, but they found their form here.

He’s spent decades building things. Not chasing perfect ideas, just turning up and working materials until something real comes out of them.

There’s often a sense that the work has been lived with. Even when it’s imagined, it carries something familiar — like a memory you recognise but can’t quite place.

There’s no fixed plan. He starts with a feeling and follows it. Some pieces come quickly, as if they were already there. Others take longer, push back, fall apart and come together again.

What matters is attention. Colour, texture, awkward beauty, the small shifts in everyday life that most people miss.

There’s no real separation between thinking and making. It’s all part of the same process.

He’s not trying to explain anything.

He’s just staying close enough to the work for it to leave a mark.