Chris Wadden attended Salisbury College of Art and has worked his way through a wide range of disciplines: animation, 3d assemblage, collage, graphic design, clock design, digital paintings and photography.

Starting out as a designer/illustrator on Tatler Magazine in the 80s and then producing regular mixed-media images for The Listener, Radio Times and New Scientist, he then spent several years on graphic design commissions for the fashion industry: John Galliano, Joseph, Vidal Sasson became regular clients.

Inspired by Joseph Cornell he began producing elaborate 3D constructions which became regular cover illustrations for the Independent on Sunday Review and the Guardian Weekend magazine. He later developed these into moving pieces and created animations for title sequences and animated shorts for the BBC, Channel 4 and MTV.

His studio in Hoxton grew into a veritable Aladdin's cave of constructed sets and assorted mechanical contraptions which was photographed for the Observer’s 'A Room of My Own'. Chris then began using the computer to mimic the constructed images and now combines built objects with elements created in Photoshop. Chris has also developed a style of digital painting which he first used for a regular colulmn, "Shop!" for the Telegraph Saturday Magazine.

Clients include:

The Telegraph Magazine
Management Today
Which?
Reader's Digest
The Independent on Sunday
The Guardian
The Times Saturday Magazine
The Sunday Express
Harpers & Queen
The Tatler
Cosmopolitan
Elle
New Scientist
Radio Times
New Statesman
John Galliano
Vidal Sassoon
Joseph
Bjork
Penguin Books
Transworld Publishing
The Dorchester Hotel
Almeida Theatre
Royal Mail
Financial Times Magazine
The Folio Society
Wall Street Journal
Harper Collins
Auckett Tytherleigh Architects
MacMillan Publishing
German Vogue