Solo Exhibitions

  • Christopher Rainham Smelik and Stokking The Hague 2023/2024
  • Dukes Oak Gallery Sandbach 2000
  • Of The Stars and Seas, Jarvis Piccadilly Hotel Manchester 1999
  • She Brings The Rain, Dukes Oak Gallery Sandbach 1995
  • Tents of Blue, Casson Gallery Eastbourne 1994
  • Among The Starry Eddies, Arts Intaglio Gallery Manchester 1994
  • Soft Enough For You, Dukes Oak Gallery Sandbach 1994
  • Visionfest, John Moores University Liverpool 1993
  • When The Poets Dreamed of Angels, Arts Intaglio Gallery Manchester 1992 

Selected Exhibitions

  • Affordable Art Fair Battersea (Will’s Art Warehouse) 2025
  • Greenstage Anniversary Exhibition Worcester 2025
  • Ancient Underlands Gibson Mill Hebden Bridge 2024
  • The Man Who Planted Trees Hebden Bridge Arts 2024
  • Small Pictures Exhibition Highgate contemporary 2024
  • Comme Ca 25 Years of Comme Ca Manchester 2023
  • Gladly Beyond Rogue Artist’s Studios CIC Manchester 2023
  • AWOL and Comme Ca Art Prize Exhibition Manchester 2024
  • Gorstella Gallery Cheshire 2024
  • Greenstage winter exhibition Bromtrees Hall Worcester 2023
  • In The Making Salford Museum and Art Gallery Dec 2022- April 2023
  • Gorstella Gallery Cheshire 2022
  • Profile Exhibition Greenstage Gallery Worcester 2022
  • Profile Highgate Contemporary Art London 2022
  • Through the Looking Glass World of Glass St Helens 2022
  • The Manchester Open Home Manchester 2022
  • Castlefield New Art Spaces Wigan 2021
  • Moorland Skies the Coach House Littleborough 2021
  • Works on Paper Highgate Contemporary Art London 2021
  • Window Wonderland Oldham Art Gallery Oldham 2020
  • Obstructions Castlefield Gallery Manchester 2020. (Video link)
  • Ten Obstructions Instagram exhibition 2020
  • Works on Paper Highgate Contemporary London 2020
  • Albatross and Arnold Manchester 2019
  • Bell Fine Art Wells 2018
  • Gorstella Gallery Chester 2016
  • Greenstage Gallery Worcester December 2016
  • The King of the Cats touring exhibition 2014 to 2016
  • The Affordable Art Fair Bristol 2016
  • Highgate Contemporary Art London 2016
  • Art Off the Edge Alderley Millennium Hall 2015
  • The Affordable Art Fair Singapore 2011
  • The Affordable Art Fair New York 2011
  • The Corte-Real Gallery Portugal 2011
  • The Affordable Art Fair Bristol 2011
  • Stark Gallery Canterbury 2011
  • Bell Fine Art Wells 2011
  • Art at the Edge Styal Lodge Cheshire 2010
  • The Affordable Art Fair New York 2010
  • Wild Britannia, Will’s Art Warehouse Putney, London 2010
  • The Glasgow Art Fair Glasgow 2010
  • The Spring Affordable Art Fair Battersea London 2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016, 2017,2023
  • Art at the Edge Styal Lodge, Styal Golf Club 2009
  • The White Gallery Bollington 2009
  • Feel Good Festival Rochdale Art Gallery Rochdale 2009
  • Manchester Food Festival Royal Exchange Manchester 2008
  • Men’s Work Artlink Gallery Hull 2008
  • The Calder Gallery Hebden Bridge 2006
  • Time For Tea Firbob and Peacock Knutsford 2006
  • Arley Hall Cheshire 2006
  • Manchester Art Fair M.I.C.C. 2005
  • Radar Galleries Washington State U.S.A. 1995

Video links

Awards

  • The Drawing Intensive (Fees) The Royal Drawing School London 2023
  • bOlder support programme Castlefield Gallery and GMCA 2019
  • The King of the Cats Arts Council funding 2014
  • Short listed for the National open Art exhibition 2014
  • Short listed for John Moores painting prize 2014
  • Short listed for the John Moores painting prize 2010
  • Publication fees Images 27 2003
  • Artreach E.P.R. Warrington 1998
  • North West Arts Board Photography and Print Scheme 1994

Publications

  • Images 27 The Association of Illustrators 2003
  • BBC Worldwide Illustration for the Radio Times
  • Contact 24 2008
  • The King of the Cats exhibition catalogue 2016

In National Collections

  • Erebus Bay, Heritage Division, Department of Culture and Heritage, Government of Nunavut, Iqualuit, Canada