Roseberry Road Studios presents What Remains, a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary fine artist Crystal D. Evans. This exhibition brings together photography, sculpture, film, sound, and poetry as a powerful meditation on memory, disintegration, and the enduring presence of the human spirit.
Evans’ practice draws from phenomenology, material narrative, and poetic inquiry, influenced by stoic philosophy. What Remains continues this exploration, offering works that navigate the fragmented traces we leave behind - what is lost, what lingers, and what we carry forward. Structured into five non-linear thematic chapters (On Love & Growth, On Wisdom & Strength, On Work & Play, On Hope & Courage, and On Death & Legacy), the exhibition guides visitors through a shifting emotional and sensory landscape.
The body of work has already gained significant recognition across Europe. Extracts have been featured in Venice at Morphos: Temporary Identities, as well as during the Venice Biennale 2025, at the Barcelona Contemporary Art Exhibition, and in Rome at the International Contemporary Art Fair 2025. In the UK, this collection premiered at the Herbert Read Gallery to critical acclaim. Now at Roseberry Road Studios, audiences are offered a rare opportunity to experience the most complete solo presentation of this powerful body of work to date.
Critics have described What Remains as “a profound, timely, and viscerally sensorial experience that confronts the complexities of identity, grief, and embodiment in today’s fractured world - inviting reflection not only on what is seen, but on what remains unseen: beneath surfaces, between words, and within us.”
Evans, whose heritage spans Malaysian Chinese and Ugandan-South African lineages, brings to her work an acute sensitivity to cultural perception and emotional resonance. Her chosen materials - stoneware, pigment, paper, projected light, and voice - speak to transience and trace, inviting viewers to confront impermanence and embrace uncertainty.
Crystal D. Evans is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, sculpture, painting, ink, installation, video, sound, light, and poetry. Rooted in phenomenology, her practice explores how we experience the world - how perception, memory, and emotion shape the stories we tell ourselves and others. She examines the biases behind those stories and the shared truths that emerge when assumptions are stripped away.
Born in the UK to a Malaysian Chinese mother and an Ugandan-South African father, Evans is drawn to cultural intersections and the complexities of identity, belonging, perception, and visibility. Her work reflects this layered heritage and the fluid, often uncomfortable spaces where meaning is negotiated.
For Evans, art is an active force - capable of shifting perspectives and dismantling barriers. She embraces imperfection as a method of truth-telling, allowing fractured forms, unfinished lines, and material tension to speak to the fragility of the human condition.
Whether working in stoneware, film, ink, or immersive media, her process is intuitive and dialogic led by concept and shaped by material. Evans seeks to create work that confronts, connects, and resonates - emotionally and cognitively. Her practice embodies art as activism, art as witness, and art as a site of transformation.