Ryan L Foote, who lives between Melbourne and Hong Kong, has had a wide-ranging career from across the worlds of art, design, food & beverage, theatre, fashion and events.
He is best known for creating unique event-based multi-sensory artworks that involve food, fashion, art, design and installation.

Foote studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts, Majoring in Sculpture and Spatial Practices and has gone on to have many exhibitions around Australia and overseas, creating large installations in places like the National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square Melbourne, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne's GPO Building, and Flinders Lane Gallery, just to name a few.  

Simultaneous to his art practice, Foote designed and produced runway sets and launch parties for multiple fashion festivals and brands from Mercedes Australian Fashion, L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival, Rosemount Australian Fashion Week, Sydney Shanghai Fashion Week as well as individual clients like Chanel Australia and many more.  

As Foote’s installation art became increasingly immersive with elements of sound, light, and fashion, he played with the inclusion of a culinary element to his art at first partnering with chefs and catering firms and then developing and producing his own culinary creations. These striking recipes involved 3D printed foods, and handmade flatware and were used for his own unique food art projects as well as partnering restaurants and events.  

These immersive food art events ended up giving rise to both R L Foote Design Studio and Chocolates By Ryan L Foote, two businesses that feedback into Foote’s art practice.

R L Foote Design Studio is a multi-disciplinary studio based out of Clifton Hill
with a focus on creating unique ceramics that not feed back into Foote’s food art projects, but also for the food and beverage industry, hotels, architects and other artist/ designer’ commissions.

In early 2015, after years of working with Chocolate in his art, Foote set out to reinvent the classic chocolate bonbon with all his creative skills, playing with new technologies and looking at things from a different perspective, he created Chocolates by Ryan L Foote which is based in Hong Kong and fuses state-of-the-art 3D printing technologies with age-old chocolatier techniques to create amazing fractal, geometric and organic forms that are almost miniature forms of edible art.