Alison Ingham’s practice is very much multidisciplinary, which is concerned with viewing nature as a way of looking at the world through a magnifying glass. Ingham makes work with or uses man-made products as a part of a landscape where the production of work will translate itself in to the environment. Photography being a leading element to sustain memory, deception and illusion; which works with intervention in space and can involve the element of play with human activity. Place is essential to the artist, with great influence from her hometown. The artist is viewing nature differently; she surrounds herself in landscapes to generate active social and political issue that will support the expectation and pleasures of perception. Therefore the work becomes a metaphor or a signifier to understand nature as an elaboration of forms growing at their own speed; creating a linguistic explanation that may take forms in a number of ways. The work draws upon boundaries between the stimulated and the real. By considering Debord’s writing of the ‘spectacle’ the difference between reality and imagery is a notion that exists and is represented through appropriation rather than its original self. This is primarily what we see as the original.
Alison Ingham’s Background
Alison Ingham found Art to be an exciting subject to learn within primary on to secondary school in Bay house where she achieve good grades and was a part of a Futurators scheme for young and exciting children to be a part of the art world by producing a show. Inviting artist to work with a themes that ran directly from the futurators in Aspex Gallery Portsmouth which led to venturing in to college. Alison studied at St Vincent College completing a Btec level 2 Art and design course with core subjects such as Textiles and photography, learning new and basic masters. She moved to Fareham college and continued to make progress completing a Btec level 3 with distinction * distinction * distinction; while learning key factors of drawing, life drawing, jewellery making, painting, photography and contemporary art.
Achieving in her highest subject Alison therefor began to looking at higher opportunities which came in the form of higher education (University), with much consideration and a few interviews Alison accepted her first choice at UCA Farnham. Now in her final year of a Fine Art degree she is very much looking forward to the future and would very much like to become an art therapist, in order to help society and many elements of her life where she has encounter challenging people. Currently Alison has just started the last year of her fine art degree and will be looking for a course in order to progress to a masters in art therapy.
Education
Fareham College , 2012-2014
, Art and Design D*D*D
BA (Hons) Fine Art at university for the creative arts
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