From 2 – 31 December 2017, a new exhibition at The Lightbox gallery will showcase the work of Steven Ingman, one of the 2016 recipients of our Purchase Prize for Young Contemporary Talent. The Purchase Prize exists to celebrate and support the work of young artists at the outset of their careers, and we are delighted to be able to present new work from Steven made especially for this exhibition.
Steven Ingman said ‘I was honoured to have been awarded a Purchase Prize and a solo show through The Ingram Collection’s Young Contemporary Talent prize. The solo show gave me the chance to explore ideas and develop my work through a critical engagement with a chosen piece from the Ingram Collection. I was attracted to a drawing by Frank Auerbach. The strong emphasis on geometric lines, structural forms and architecture, along with Auerbach’s conceptual ideas on the evolving city, redevelopment and the ruin, gave me a foundation to develop an exhibition.’
Ingman seeks out the negative spaces of empty shops, incomplete office buildings or abandoned leisure venues, found in the cityscape, taking inspiration from the themes of change, creation and destruction. His paintings are striking in colour and composition, using washes, drips and layering to emphasize the strong structural forms within his creations. His paintings visualise the contrast between purposeful and abandoned spaces and revel in the polarity of formlessness and architectural order.
Steven Ingman graduated from Wimbledon College of Art, University of Arts London in 2016. He was awarded the Derby Open in 2008 and in 2010 obtained funding from the Arts Council England for a solo show entitled ‘Night Light’ in 2010. He was shortlisted for the Attenborough Award and won the Great Central Solo award in 2011. In 2012 he was awarded The Great Art Prize in the Nottingham Castle Midland Open exhibition.
‘Steven Ingman – To Let: Young Contemporary Talent from The Ingram Collection’ will be on show at The Lightbox, 2 – 31 December 2017. Entrance is free. For further information please visit thelightbox.org.uk.