Nicole Ingham

Nicole Ingham

Concept

Nicole Ingham’s work deals with paint itself. The process of painting and layering many thin glazes onto sanded gesso. The works are self referential. Some of the works take other images either from high art, or low contemporary culture and translate them into the traditional form of oil paint. Chinese watercolours, Durer’s etchings, the artist’s own biro doodles, all go through the same processes and evolve into paintings, all source material is now equel because it has the added weight of tradition, a sense of history, a placemat from Pizza Hut has now metamorphosed into a work of equal standing to an ancient Chinese watercolour. If the desired image is not found ready made, it is created in the artist’s studio and photographed or shot on location in the local pet shop etc…

Before painting, most images are subjected to a process of manipulation through a series of re photographing, photocopying, scanning or enlarging.

This can create subtle nuances in colour or dramatic changes so that the resulting image is transformed and distorted to different degrees. Some images may still bear a strong resemblance to the original, others may not. The interference incurred effectively slows down the viewer’s process of looking, information is obscured, a few areas are veiled and blurred, in some cases completely obliterated with thick paint. Other areas keep a high degree of detail. The painting may weave in and out of focus, thus creating a new space that could not possibly exist n the physical world, but now stands as a strange empty astage set for the viewer to project their own narrative onto.

Different styles of painting language are combined in one piece. Different mark making with areas of thin glazes building up a luminosity with glowing depth of colour, alongside areas of a blurred technique, or thick juicy paint.

These processes create a discourse on the language of paint, and the place of painting in a media saturated world, where photography has risen as the primary mode of representation. After the rigours of Modernism painting is now finding its new place in a more superficial world where surface is everything, and this complicated and unique role is one of the themes being explored in all of the works.

CV Summery

Forthcoming

  • 2007 / (Oct) Old Age, Group Show, Gristle Mountain Gallery, South Sea

Exhibitions

  • 2007 / Nicole Ingham Solo Show, Nevill Gallery, Canterbury
  • 2006 / The Canterbury Art Fair, The Marlowe Centre, Canterbury
  • 2005 / Redundancy, The Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
  • 2004 / Open Studio (Solo), Refuge Studio, Kent
  • 2003 / 4WestFive1, 4 West Five Space, London
  • 2003 / Not The Turner Prize, The Mall Galleries, London

Education

  • 1999-2002 / BA Honours Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, Winchester
  • 1998-1999 / BTEC Diploma, Kent Institute of Art & Design
  • 1998-1999 / Foundation Studies Art and Design

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