Every picture is a picture of the body.
Every work of art is a representation of the body . . . There must be a desire at work, perhaps among the most primal desires of all: we prefer to have bodies in front of us, or in our hands, and if we cannot have them, we continue to see them as after-images or ghosts.
(James Elkins, Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis, 2004)
Human form is the visual basis of my subject matter, and, for me, spills into ideas about who we might be existentially, historically and physically. Hence portraiture, the figure, the nude, the 'trony' - and a preoccupation with what's on the 'inside' and the 'outside'. This latter has eventually lead me to use the creative process and materials as metaphor, through which I attempt to satisfy who I am when making the work, whilst leaving the results to say what they will to the viewer.
For me, the importance of the work lies in the making, mark-making, layering, recording and the formal qualities of why a piece works visually. On from that its also a manner of notice
and acknowledgement of human time, passage of time, happenings and sometimes specific, but perhaps quite 'small', and other times a more general mass or field of something experienced by all of us, with the individuality of meaning and response lying in the experience and the
eye of the beholder.
Linda Ingham
MA
2009
CV
M : 07913996514
Abbey Walk Gallery : 01472 241007
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Forthcoming Shows in 2009
February - Solo Show 'Pore - A Work In Progress 1', The Artspace, Tower Street, York
www.theartspaceyork.com
March - Group Show - 'Studio Artists Spring Show', Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby
www.abbeywalkgallery.com
April - Group Show - 'Old Masters: New Masters', The Beetroot Tree Gallery, Drayton, Derbyshire
www.thebeetroottree.com
May (to be confiremed_ - Solo show - 'Pore - A Work in Progress 2', Surface Gallery, Nottingham
www.surfacegallery.org
July / August - N.E. Lincolnshire Arts Forum Festival
www.artsforumfestival.com
September - Grimsby St.Hugh's Festival installation, St James Church, Grimsby
www.grimsby-st-hughes-festival.org.uk
October - Solo Show - Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby
www.abbeywalkgallery.com
December - Group Show - 'Studio Artists Winter Show', Abbey Walk Gallery, grimsby
www.abbeywalkgallery.com
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