Joseph Ingleby
Joseph Ingleby
The roots of Joseph Ingleby‘s sculpture stem from his fascination with the potential that everyday objects have to become something else. These works are evolved forms. They hold a memory of functional artefacts but also have an organic metamorphosis, growing into absolute forms that have their own rhythm and identity. Commissioned work is usually site-specific. He creates work for public and gallery spaces, at varying scales, using metal, particularly steel and copper. Ingleby’s creative process brings together images and ideas, refined through an intensive period of drawing to create resolved sculptural forms. Full-scale mock-ups, profiling (cutting out of metal shapes), and construction follow.
Joseph Ingleby studied sculpture at West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham (BA Hons. 1st Class), and as a post-graduate at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, finishing in 1988. He has exhibited in solo and group shows across the UK. He also teaches educational workshops, including one to one, community and public courses at GSS. In 1996, Joe became the first Scottish-based sculptor to receive a major award from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York. He was the winner of the 1998 Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy Bursary, funding a residency at Sculpture Space, Utica, New York. He was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 1999. In 2013 Joe received a major award from the Gottlieb Foundation in New York. His work is in public and private collections; in 2011 the University of Stirling Art Collection purchased ‘Reservoir Tap’ with the help of a grant from the National Fund for Acquisitions. Other large-scale and commissioned works are at Queen’s Park, Swindon; All Hallows School, Farnham, Surrey; Alloa, Clackmannanshire; Dalfaber, Aviemore; by the Clyde at Dalmarnock Bridge, Rutherglen; in Bulwell, Nottingham, and include the ‘Denny Treasure Trail’ in Denny near Falkirk, created in 2018. Joe completed ‘Storm Cargo’, a public commission for the LOCUS Public Art Trail in Lerwick, Shetland, in 2021