Linda Ingham (born 1964 in

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, England) is a British artist who studied European Humanities before achieving an MA in Fine Art from Lincoln University of Art, Architecture & Design in 2007. A member of the artist led group Contemporary British Painting, Ingham is a regular visiting lecturer in painting at the

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School of Design and since 2008 has been the recipient of several awards from the

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for her studio practice and curatorial activities. Her work has been exhibited and collected by art museums in the UK and

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Artistic practice

Her art observes the passing of time, often in relationship to a particular place on the south

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estuary where she lives and works, or as self-portraiture. These take the form of painted or drawn constructions, modified books, and objects which are created through process and systems of recording and use of materials, such as

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, gathered from the beach;

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and handmade gesso; and

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from antique books. Of her work she says “for the past twenty years or so, my visual preoccupation within my practice has manifested itself in terms of human form. Sometimes this has been bodies, but the power, for me, is around the head in some way. I did a series of some two hundred works, derived from more than eighty participants, just concentrating on their facial features, but I’m not sure I’d call them portraits. I have done portraits of other people, but perhaps, as an only child, who often had to entertain herself, the self-portrait has been most consistently prevalent throughout my practice.”

Professional recognition

A member of the artist led group Contemporary British Painting, Ingham is a regular visiting lecturer in painting at the

School of Design and since 2008 has been the recipient of several awards from the

for her studio practice and curatorial activities. Her work has been exhibited and collected by a number of art museums in the UK and

including those of The

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, The Komechak Art Gallery,

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, Madison Museum of Fine Art,

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and East Contemporary Art Collection at the

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Selected exhibitions

* “Contemporary Masters of the East of England”, The Cut, Halesworth (2017) * “@Paintbritain”, Ipswich Museum (2014) * “Contemporary British Painting”, Huddersfield Art Gallery (2014) * “The Brentwood Stations of the Cross”,

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(2014) * “About Face – Portrait & Figure Studies from the Swindon Collection of Modern Art”,

, Wiltshire (2014) * “Contemporary British Painting”, The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church, London (2013) * “The Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Competition”,

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, London (2011) * “The Sketch Drawing Prize 20II”, Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire (2011)

Selected collections

* East Contemporary Art Collection *

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* Komechak Art Gallery, Chicago *

* Madison Museum of Fine Art, Georgia *

References

External links

* Linda Ingha

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