Artists Statement – Alex Ingram - July 2012
My work is a physical reaction to the world around me. As a performance artist and poet I negotiate my position through mediums, with the perspective of presence on my environment.
I make objects out of moments of being, culminating in personal subject matter and expressions of the poetic, through a tactile process to materials.
Traces are reflected on and re-used in installation allowing relationships to occur as a poetic surprise.
Not knowing allows me to work intuitively responding to the process of making, reaching endings as conclusions, like playing a game.
Curriculum Vitae, Alex Ingram, 03:02:1974
One Hundred on the Horizon - Final Draft
Touched (Solo Show) - Core Arts, 2012
Over the Radar - Core Arts, April 2012
The Outsider - Core Arts, July 2011
Forget Who You Are - Museum of Childhood, 18 June-16 Oct. 2011
All that glitters is not institution-Whitechapel Art Gallery, Dec. 2010
Barmy Park - Bethnal Green Library, Sept 2010
Final Drafts of Books - Dark Town, Boxes, Lull, ( A Season Breaks – Collaboration)
White Works (publication) – Not your average type, 2010
White Works (Solo Show) – Core arts, Hackney, 2010
Certificate of Higher Education in Arts Management, 2007-09 – Birkbeck College.
L’exposition du de ja vu (co-curator) – Core Blimey Arts, Deptford, London, Feb 2008
I’ve done nothing wrong today (publication) – Chipmunkapublishing, 2007
Not your average type – Core arts, Hackney, London, 2007
Enchanted garden (co-curator) - Macdermont grove, Peckham, London, Oct 2007
Art Tarts Take Away (co-curator) – 157 gallery Peckham, London, July 2007
Eastside community heritage (volunteer), April-July 2007 (general office work: filing; databases.)
Enchanted garden (co-curator) – Macdermont grove, Peckham, London, Sept 2006
Play Organiser, Indigo project, Bernardos, Ilford, London, 2002-06 (facilitator of learning through play for young people with challenging behaviour: CRB checked; manual handling; crisis intervention skills; workshops on Autism and play therapy; running art facilities.)
Screening at Black Box theatre, Sweden, March 2004
Brief Interludes Screening, Central library building, Nottingham, 2003
3 Minute warning, In-between time festival, Bristol, 2003
Mutiny Exhibition, Bargehouse Space, London, 2003
Mind is a horse, Bloomberg Space, London, 2002
Eel, 291 Gallery, London, 2002
The Big Stage, Umbrella arts group, Cardiff, 2001
Koneisto Festival, Finland, 2001
E-phos Video Festival, Greece, 2001
Nothing Exhibition, Mead Gallery, Coventry, 2001
EXPO 2001, Nottingham
St. Petersburg Performance Festival, Russia, 2000
TRACKS Exhibition (co-curator), Amsterdam, 1999
Central Saint Martins College of art and design – MA fine art, 2000 – 2001
Glasgow art school – BA (Hons) degree in sculpture 2/2
1991 – 1994
1996 – 1997
Current occupation – Artist
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I make with the backdrop of not knowing, where the process takes president over subject matter with the end result reaching its conclusion naturally. Starting to make in a state of not knowing is like projecting an idea into nothing and seeing what form it takes.
Nothing can be seen as a black empty space but as an artist white is presented as a blank space, clear, flat to the eyes, ready to be filled and almost impossible not to act upon. Nothingness prompts and says get ready for something.
This clearing to make a space, the essence of white comes from starting from scratch or in reality seeing the world around us with a new perspective, with new eyes.
Seeing something for the first time or an alternative view is a creative activity.
I am interested in the physicality of space, thought and my effect on the world around me. My work is the interaction between myself and my immediate surroundings (ranging from observing to employing props in various environments) using mediums such as photography and video.
The work appears in various forms with the making of the work being its subject matter. I hope that there is a sense of the poetic about what I do and that there is space within the work which allows the viewer to have a personal reading of what they see.
I also write poetry which starts from an impulse to put down on paper words that come from an initial response. I have become aware when an idea interests me and is of the same sensibility that is present in the rest of my work. I feel as if I am anticipating when the work will come and try to be ready for it. There is the sense that the invisible is being coaxed and the ungraspable given form.
I see myself as a matter artist, a conduit for my subconscious with the work realising meaning after it is made. The relationship between myself and the work is an ongoing process.
Artist Profile
Alex Ingram has a BA in Sculpture from Glasgow School of Art and a MA in Fine Art from Saint Martins School of Art and Design. A Matter Artist, he uses photography, video, poetry, performance and painting and is interested in the ideas of ‘nothing’, tactile interaction and the physical nature of thought. As a continuing process the pieces he makes are moments along the journey with meaning being a fluid commodity. Alex has exhibited his work both in Britain and abroad in galleries, festivals and as site specific work. He has also published four books and completed a further three.
Books
- The Spaceman Cometh (Not Your Average Type)
- Lull (Not Your Average Type)
- White Works (Not Your Average Type)
- I’ve Done Nothing Wrong Today (Chipmunka Publishing)
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