Woking, The Lightbox, 2D:3D – Discover the Art of Sculpture: Sculpture & Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 1 February – 1 March 2008;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: The Human Face, 22 July – 28 September 2008;
Woking, The Lightbox, Football, Celebrating the Olympics, 1 July – 30 September 2012;
Woking, The Lightbox, In Their Own Words: Artists’ Voices from The Ingram Collection, 20 May – 30 July 2017
Literature:
Tamsyn Woollcombe, Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, Much Hadham, 1997 (illustrated, no. KA34, p. 74)
Kenneth Armitage’s subject matter is often an abstraction of form, but recognisably human, the features and limbs simplified and sometimes fused together with the torso. In 1952 Armitage was chosen alongside Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Bernard Meadows and others to represent the British section at the Venice Biennale, one of the highest honours bestowed on an artist. Armitage once said ‘I like sculpture to look as if it happened, to express an idea as simply as possible.’ This humanitarian approach to sculpture is expressed by Alan Bowness, in the Arts Council Collection Exhibition Catalogue 1972-3: “The sculpture may be playful in feeling; it may be painful. We may smile; or turn away, almost in embarrassment…”
