“The work of Canavan is like being choked with the finest leather glove and saying 'Thank-you Master'… it comes from the gut; our insides burst out of us and we become more open, more concerned and more vulnerable because of it.” Garth Gratrix, Co-Founding Director of Abingdon Studios & Project Space, 2024
"Working hard to be The BUMBOY of Boris Johnson's nightmares" Kris Canavan, 2020
"TRANS-GRESSIVE" Franko B, artist, 2020
"The most powerful performance artist working in the U.K." Shaun Caton, artist, 2020
"Kris Canavan presents us with compelling performance art for the 21st century that exposes the sham-zero redundancy of our civil and political institutions. This is compulsive and oppositional performance art with its integrity firmly stitched to the historical legacy of our shared communal body. “ Andre Stitt, artist, 2015
"Using their body as a framework for iconoclasm and getting under their own skin, Canavan makes the symbologies of fractured society a deeply personal affair." amino, 2014
"Working hard to be The BUMBOY of Boris Johnson's nightmares" Kris Canavan, 2020
"TRANS-GRESSIVE" Franko B, artist, 2020
"The most powerful performance artist working in the U.K." Shaun Caton, artist, 2020
"Kris Canavan presents us with compelling performance art for the 21st century that exposes the sham-zero redundancy of our civil and political institutions. This is compulsive and oppositional performance art with its integrity firmly stitched to the historical legacy of our shared communal body. “ Andre Stitt, artist, 2015
"Using their body as a framework for iconoclasm and getting under their own skin, Canavan makes the symbologies of fractured society a deeply personal affair." amino, 2014