A new exhibition beginning on the 26th September and running through the whole of October 2024. Works from Bryan Ingham's estate including important sculpture, stone carvings, plaster and bronze heads, works on paper, coloured drawings and etchings and lithographs exploring the artist’s fascination with linking ancient classical themes with the modern movement.
Ingham was an artist in tune with the immensely rich artistic heritage of Britain, and like many of his peers and contemporaries sought inspiration from the greats, including Ben Nicholson, who was to have a lasting impact on his work. Combined with broader influences of Picasso, Braque and Mondrian, Ingham honed his own, very distinctive style that also looked to lesser-known names such as Peter Lanyon and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, and the manner in which they too interpreted their local landscape. Yet for all these inspirations Ingham trod his own, unique path. As William Parker noted in his introduction to Ingham’s 2006 exhibition: ‘His true achievement was to absorb it all with a cool, visual intelligence.’
Ingham worked with themes, reoccurring in different mediums throughout his career, seen for example in the beautiful selection of ‘Mediterranean Heads’ produced from the late 1980s and into the ‘90s. He was an artist who refused to stand still, refused to bend to the trends of the London art scene and instead continued to pursue his own, individual artistic journey.
His business, he wrote vividly in 1991, was "To beg, borrow, consolidate and synthesise, to add, even, to the classical tradition of harmony and contained chance".