Christopher Stewart grew up in what he refers to as the disciplinary class - individuals and families that are connected to police and military cultures. As an artist he has been continually drawn towards subject matter that explores the performance of masculinity, military rehearsal and an analysis of complex and hierarchical power structures.
Working primarily with photography, moving image and sound his work has been shown at The Whitechapel Gallery in London, as part of the permanent photographic collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool and Fotomuseum in Winterthur, Switzerland.
His work is featured in published surveys including the Thames and Hudson World of Art series The Photograph as Contemporary Art, 100 European Photographers, EXIT, Madrid, the Focal Press publication Langford’s Basic Photography.
He has been the recipient of awards from the Wellcome Trust, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Arts Council of England and The Australia Council.
He completed his undergraduate studies at the Polytechnic of Central London and at West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham and completed an MA at the Royal College of Art and a PhD in the Faculty of Art & Design at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.