Ian Green
︎ Awarded the MAKING prize ︎
My work is broadly informed by the contrasts of urban and rural. Growing up in a rural environment and experiencing the natural cycles of nature, discovering the properties of materials - types of wood, soft sandstone crumbled easily, hard flint brittle and sharp, the qualities of earth and clay, the flow of water, fire transforming what it encountered.
From this followed a fascination with mark making, the forensic presence of animal tracks, and from the stories of my parents and grandparents a sense of history, folklore and ritual.
Simultaneously I was aware of a world on the periphery of my experience, brought into my consciousness by magazines, television and radio. A forward looking, optimistic mix of pop, op and psychedelic art, pounding music, synaesthesia and a confusion of futures and pasts.
Experimental short films infuenced by hautology as an examination of the presence of psychic forces.
My work is broadly informed by the contrasts of urban and rural. Growing up in a rural environment and experiencing the natural cycles of nature, discovering the properties of materials - types of wood, soft sandstone crumbled easily, hard flint brittle and sharp, the qualities of earth and clay, the flow of water, fire transforming what it encountered.
From this followed a fascination with mark making, the forensic presence of animal tracks, and from the stories of my parents and grandparents a sense of history, folklore and ritual.
Simultaneously I was aware of a world on the periphery of my experience, brought into my consciousness by magazines, television and radio. A forward looking, optimistic mix of pop, op and psychedelic art, pounding music, synaesthesia and a confusion of futures and pasts.
Experimental short films infuenced by hautology as an examination of the presence of psychic forces.
︎︎︎ Artist Website
︎︎︎ Birmingham School of Art ︎︎︎
BA(Hons) Fine Art ︎ 2020
BA(Hons) Fine Art ︎ 2020