Last updated: 26 October 2026
Veronica Ryan is the Montserrat-born sculptor who won the Turner Prize in 2022 and made the Windrush sculptures in Hackney. Here you will find the Veronica Ryan prints and editions you can buy, where to see her work free right now, and our review of her 2026 Whitechapel survey.
Our take on Veronica Ryan
Ryan makes small, quiet sculptures from things most people throw away or overlook: fruit stones, seed pods, fabric, wax and pins, often cast in bronze or stitched and stacked in boxes. Her mother, a quiltmaker, taught her to sew, and stitching runs through the work. Her best-known pieces are outdoors: a giant custard apple, breadfruit and soursop in marble and bronze in Narrow Way Square, Hackney, unveiled in 2021 as the UK’s first permanent public artworks honouring the Windrush generation.
I was less convinced by her Whitechapel survey this spring and gave it 2/5. It “tries to say everything at once and ends up saying very little clearly”, although “the rediscovered 1980s works are the real highlight”. Ryan herself has said: “I’m really interested in contradiction and paradox and how that really speaks to our wider culture,” in a Tate film.
Her work rarely comes up at auction, so the museum shops are where to buy. Veronica Ryan prints start at £500, and a small bronze edition is £2,000.
Veronica Ryan: the essentials
- Born in Plymouth, Montserrat, in 1956, raised in England, and now lives and works between New York and the UK, according to Paula Cooper Gallery.
- Studied at St Albans College of Art and Design, Bath Academy of Art at Corsham, the Slade School of Fine Art and SOAS, University of London.
- Appointed OBE in 2021, won the Turner Prize in 2022, and was elected a Royal Academician in December 2022.
- Won the PSSA Marsh Award for Public Sculpture in 2022 for the Hackney Windrush sculptures.
- Represented by Alison Jacques in London and Paula Cooper Gallery in New York.
Where to see Veronica Ryan’s work now
- Now on, free: Still Lives, a group show touring from The Hepworth Wakefield, St Albans Museum + Gallery, 23 October 2026 to 11 April 2027, open daily 10am to 4pm.
- Always on, free: Custard Apple, Breadfruit and Soursop (2021), Narrow Way Square by St Augustine’s Tower, Hackney, commissioned by Hackney Council.
- Always on, free: a bronze Breadfruit outside Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, installed in January 2024, according to Alison Jacques.
- The Weather Inside II, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, 30 May to 18 October 2026, her largest solo show in Scotland, per Alison Jacques.
- Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1 April to 14 June 2026. Read our review.
Where to buy Veronica Ryan prints and editions
- Coco Beans, £500: a 2022 lithograph with screen-printed varnish, 49.5 x 76cm (19 1/2 x 30in), signed and numbered from an edition of 40, from The Hepworth Wakefield shop.
- A Wind Blows Patterns I, £950: a 2022 etching on Somerset Velvet paper, 47.5 x 47.5cm (18 3/4 x 18 3/4in), signed and numbered from an edition of 50, from the Tate shop.
- The Smell of Magnolia, £2,000: a 2026 patinated bronze about 6 x 11 x 7.5cm (2 3/8 x 4 3/8 x 3in), initialled, with a signed certificate, from an edition of 21, from the Whitechapel Gallery shop. The shop says prices rise as the edition sells.
Our reviews featuring Veronica Ryan
- Veronica Ryan at the Whitechapel Gallery review (Cool Factor 2/5): “Gallery 3 is where the show really found its voice.”
Veronica Ryan FAQs
How much do Veronica Ryan prints cost?
Her Coco Beans lithograph is £500 at The Hepworth Wakefield and her A Wind Blows Patterns I etching is £950 at Tate. A small bronze edition, The Smell of Magnolia, is £2,000 at the Whitechapel Gallery.
Where can I see Veronica Ryan’s work for free?
Her Windrush sculptures stand in Narrow Way Square, Hackney, and a bronze Breadfruit stands outside Warwick Arts Centre. Her work is also in Still Lives at St Albans Museum + Gallery until 11 April 2027, which is free.
When did Veronica Ryan win the Turner Prize?
In December 2022, for her Spike Island show Along a Spectrum and the Hackney Windrush sculptures.
Which galleries represent Veronica Ryan?
Alison Jacques in London and Paula Cooper Gallery in New York.
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Main image: Veronica Ryan. Photo: Holly Falconer, via Alison Jacques. Cropped and framed by CoolCuration. Exhibition dates and prices last checked: 26 October 2026.
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