1975 born London, lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Christopher Sage's paintings and ensembles explore the relation between paintings and the environments they inhabit. This is evident both in the choice of subject matter within his paintings, and the construction and arrangement of props within his life size dioramas that mirror and mimic the paintings housed within.
Sage's work draws inspiration from film sets, showrooms and memories of real rooms and furniture. These influences merge to construct familiar, yet awkward settings. While these depicted environments appear lush in colour and surface, they conceal an isolation and dysfunctional nature of the enclosed sets. The depicted doorways and corridors offer points of deeper penetration, leading out of view into the unknown.
Sage's paintings fuse an illusion of depth, constructed through different perspective methods, with flat designs. This union constructs an optical tension between a pictorial space and the flat physical surface of the painting. The cuts and protrusions, which break the quadratic frame of the image, invite the wall into the painting. Here the painting attempts to break into the physical world, only to affirm their flat painted surface.