Ethan Byrne is an interdisciplinary, multimedia artist and recent graduate of the MRes Art: Moving Image at Central Saint Martins. His practice explores the intersections of grief, memory and perception. Engaging in moving image as a primary medium, through video art and narrative film, he embraces ambiguity, facilitating open-ended scenarios presented for subject viewing and multiple interpretations.
Ethan studied MSci Business and Management with Innovation at the University of Bristol until 2022. The course focused upon social design and the design thinking systems framework. He worked on projects with DEFRA and College of Bristol during this period. In 2022, he became the first person to deliver an art installation as their final project in the history of the course, also producing research on the viability of the arts industry to create meaningful impact through interviews with local artists and neuroscientists who specialised in colour theory. The resulting installation was well received and resulted in commercial interest from the likes of Outernet.
During his time at Central Saint Martins, Ethan focused upon creating moving image works and narrative films. These range from video art that looks to cut through the boundary of performed behaviour and natural reactions, revealing their complex relation to a narrative short that follows a young woman’s struggles to come to terms with a life-changing event, exploring themes of memory, reality and inner conflict as she slowly loses control. Alongside his practice, Ethan has wrote several papers on the themes of audience participation and film as a warped mirror.
EDUCATION
2018 - 2022 MSci Business and Management with Innovation, University of Bristol.
2023 - 2025 MRes Art: Moving Image, Central Saint Martins.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 HARMONOIA, The Vestibules, Bristol
2022 HARMONOIA, The Richmond Building, Bristol
2023 Ineffable Retrospect, The Bridewell, Liverpool
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 REASSEMBLAGE, Central Saint Martins, London
2025 Consumed By The Gentle Flame, The Good Rice, London
2025. Post Graduate Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, London
ART FAIRS
2025 199, Art Moscow, Gostiny Dvor