Alex Ingram is an artist creating paintings, poetry and performance. He has a BA in Sculpture from Glasgow School of Art and a MA in Fine Art from Saint Martins School of Art and Design. He has exhibited at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and at the Bloomberg Space in London
A Multimedia Artist, he uses photography, video, poetry, performance and painting and is interested in the concept of time as structure, ideas of ‘Nothing’, tactile interaction and the physical nature of thought counterbalancing the continuity of process where meaning is in the works intuitive conclusions.
His recent series of imagined landscapes endeavour to use the subject of landscapes as a tool for the ideas and expression of form and beauty. This comes from the process of interplay with the mediums he uses and the final arrival of a piece of work where aesthetics are a cognitive activity.
Alex has exhibited his work both in Britain and abroad in galleries, festivals and as site specific work. He has also published fourteen books and completed three albums of his songs.
” Art enables me to make intuitive decisions and find solutions naturally. I think therapeutically this activity of making where play is started, worked through and completed is a process where problem solving can be practiced. By recognising this sensation, we can learn through it and familiarise ourselves with our ability to trust in a process we may not fully understand and give us the tools to work through and come to conclusions we may not have expected or foreseen. This sense of completion and surprise in the work keeps me engaged and rewarded. “
His impressive CV includes:
Selected Works / Exhibitions
Chaos and Control, The Chopperchunky Gallery
group abstract art exhibition, 2020
Fire Spirits
http://www.alexingram.bandcamp.com
Botanical Days; Poetry Book – Lulu.com
2019
Tender Boy
Children’s Book – themanwithoutareference
Glittering
Painting Exhibition – 119 Cafe, Hackney
Glittering
http://www.alexingram.bandcamp.com
Bird God
Anthology – themanwithoutareference
http://www.lulu.com/shop/alex-ingram/bird-god
2018
Merry Months Of May
http://www.alexingram.bandcamp.com
And a Fox Cried – Publication – themanwithoutareference
2017
Group Show – Long White Cloud
2014
Never Again – Publication – themanwithoutareferene
Cinema – Publication – themanwithoutareferene
Under the Skin – Group Show – Core Arts
One Hundred on the Horizon – Publication
2012
Touched – Solo Show – Core Arts
Over The radar – Group Show – Core Arts
2011
Forget Who You Are – Group Show – The Museum of childhood – 18 June – 16 October
The Outsider – Group Show – Core Arts)
2010
All That Glitters Is Not Institution – Whitechapel Art Gallery
Barmy Park – Group Show – Bethnal Green Library
Dark Town – Publication
Boxes – Publication
Lull – Publication
A Season Breaks – Collaboration
Spaceman Cometh – Publication – Not Your Average Type, 2010
White Works – Publication – Not Your Average Type, 2010
White Works – Solo Show – Core Arts
2008
L’exposition du de ja vu – Goup Show/co-curator– Core Blimey Arts, Deptford, London
2007
I’ve done nothing wrong today – Publication – Chipmunkapublishing, 2007
Not Your Average Type – Publication – Core Arts, London, 2007
Not Your Average Type – Group Show – Core Arts
Enchanted garden – Group Show / co-curator – London
Art Tarts Take Away – Group Show / co-curator – 157 Gallery, Peckham, London
2003
Black Box Theatre – Screening – Sweden
Brief Interludes – Screening – Nottingham
3 Minute warning – Screening – In-between Time Festival, Bristol,
Mutiny Exhibition – Group Show – Bargehouse Space, London
2002
Mind is a horse – Group Show – Bloomberg Space, London
Eel – Screening – 291 Gallery, London
2000
Various Shows and Screenings
The Big Stage, Umbrella arts group, Cardiff
Koneisto Festival, Finland
E-phos Video Festival, Greece
Nothing Exhibition, Mead Gallery, Coventry
EXPO 2001, Nottingham
St. Petersburg Performance Festival, Russia
TRACKS Exhibition (co-curator), Amsterdam
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