About Veronica Ryan

Veronica Ryan (b. 1956) is a Montserrat-born British artist who currently splits her time between New York and the UK. She studied at St Albans, Bath Academy of Art, the Slade School of Art and the School for Oriental and African Studies.

In 2000, Ryan completed a residency at Tate St Ives, where she worked in the former studio of Barbara Hepworth and used marble gifted by the Hepworth Estate.

During her time there, Ryan made a series of works that responded to Hepworth’s sculpture, the Cornish landscape and to her own interests in interior and exterior forms, identity and place. A number of these pieces have since joined existing works by the artist in the Tate Collection and Arts Council Collection.

In 2021 Veronica Ryan’s sculptures Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit, (Moraceae) and Soursop (Annonaceae) were unveiled in the east London borough of Hackney as the first permanent artworks to honour the Windrush generation in the UK.