Established 2002 Collection size 650 pieces Owner Chris Ingram | Location The Lightbox, Woking Curator Jo Baring | |
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Key holdings Modern British Sculpture, Neo-Romantics, Dame Elisabeth Frink | ||
The Ingram Collection of Modern British Art is one of the United Kingdom’s best and most significant collections of Modern British Art. It is recognised as the biggest privately owned publicly accessible collection of Modern British in the country. The collection has been put together over the last decade by media entrepreneur Chris Ingram. Ingram has been described as “one of the most active and thoughtful collectors of Modern British Art today.”
Contents
- The collection
- Exhibitions
- Loans to other exhibitions
- Selected artists from the Ingram Collection
- References
Robert Upstone (Director of The Fine Art Society and former Tate curator) considers the collection to have been "created with exemplary visual flair and an unerring eye for quality". The collection comprises 650 artworks of which over 400 are by the most important artists of the Modern British era, among these Dame Elisabeth Frink, Dame Barbara Hepworth and Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.
The collection
The collection is currently housed at The Lightbox - the Art Fund Prize-winning gallery and museum in Ingram's hometown of Woking. The Lightbox is a public gallery which opened in 2007. The Ingram Collection has been on loan to the gallery from its opening and has created a unique local opportunity to see world-class Modern British art. Since its inaugural exhibition, 2D:3D, which featured a wide selection of sculpture and sculptors' drawings, The Ingram Collection has run a varied programme of exhibitions focusing on particular elements of the collection, from surveys of artists such as Sir Anthony Caro and Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, to explorations of broader themes such as The Human Face, Sea Pictures, and Dreams and Nightmares. Works from the collection are also regularly requested by other galleries and exhibitions, including loans to Pallant House, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Guildford Cathedral, The Hepworth Wakefield, Kettle’s Yard and the Jerwood Gallery.
The collection spans a hundred years of British art and includes works in oil and on paper, sculptures, installations and videos. The main focus of the collection is on the art movements which developed in the early and middle decades of the 20th Century, art which responded to the influence of the two world wars, and art which challenged the usual and the regular. The collection features a broad base of artists with particularly strong groups of works by William Roberts, Edward Burra, Keith Vaughan, John Tunnard, John Craxton, and Richard Eurich. The sculpture holdings are significant, featuring works by artists such as, amongst others, Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Robert Clatworthy, Sir Jacob Epstein, Eric Gill, Bernard Meadows, Eduardo Paolozzi, William Turnbull and Leon Underwood.
The Ingram Collection also includes contemporary art. Ingram is a supporter of and regular visitor to graduate arts shows. Contemporary works purchased range from traditional works in oils and on paper, to installations and video. Several of the artists represented in the collection are now gaining international reputations: Haroon Mirza, Suki Chan and Alexander Hoda.
Exhibitions
2D-3D The Lightbox, Woking: February–March 2008
Portraiture - The Human Face The Lightbox, Woking: July–September 2008
Landscapes The Lightbox, Woking: March–May 2009
Sea Pictures The Lightbox, Woking: January–March 2010
Suki Chan and Haroon Mirza The Lightbox, Woking: October–November 2010
Ways of Seeing The Lightbox, Woking: November 2010–February 2011
Sculpture and Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection Sotheby's, London: January–January 2011
Sculptures from the Ingram Collection Guildford Cathedral, Guildford: January–December 2011
Ingram Collection: Prints and Printmaking The Lightbox, Woking: February–April 2011
The Art of William Roberts The Lightbox, Woking: September–December 2011
Ingram Collection: Diamond Jubilee Celebration Exhibition The Lightbox, Woking: March–April 2012
The Ingram Collection, a loan exhibition Otter Gallery, Chichester: March–April 2012
Dreams and Nightmares The Lightbox, Woking: May–July 2012
Football, celebrating the Olympics The Lightbox, Woking: July–September 2012
Suki Chan ‘Still Point’ The Lightbox, Woking: October–November 2012
Landscapes of the Mind The Lightbox, Woking: January–February 2013
Colourful lives of artists The Lightbox, Woking: April–June 2013
Sculptures from the Ingram Collection Canary Wharf, London: September–November 2013
Animals in art The Lightbox, Woking January–March 2014
Skyscapes The Lightbox, Woking May–June 2014
Impact of War The Lightbox, Woking October 2014 – January 2015
Drawing On Royal West of England Academy, Bristol: March-June 2015
Planes, Trains and Automobiles The Lightbox, Woking April-June 2015
A Personal Passion Hestercombe, Somerset: April-July 2015
Inside Out The Clink Restaurants, HMP Styal and HMP High Down, Surrey: April 2015 and ongoing
Where's God Now? The Lightbox, Woking July-September 2015
Bodies! The Lightbox, Woking November 2015-January 2016
Beside The Sea Paintings in Hospitals Loan Scheme, various locations: January-December 2016
The Human Face Aberystwyth Arts Centre: January-March 2016
Not All Contemporary Art Is Rubbish! The Lightbox, Woking February-April 2016
Health and the Body: Ingram at the RCGP Royal College of General Practitioners, London: March-May- 2016
The Road to Abstraction The Lightbox, Woking May-July 2016
Century: Modern British Art from The Ingram and Jerwood Collections Jerwood Gallery, Hastings: October 2016-January 2017
Loans to other exhibitions
William Roberts: England at Play Pallant House, Chichester: January–March 2007
Caro and Paolozzi The Lightbox, Woking: January–April 2009
John Tunnard Pallant House, Chichester: March–June 2010
The Nicholsons and their Circle: An artistic legacy The Lightbox, Woking: April–June 2011
British Pop Art: Snap, Crackle and Pop The Lightbox, Woking: July–October 2011
Stanley Spencer – Between heaven and earth Kunsthal, Rotterdam: September 2011–January 2012
Edward Burra Pallant House, Chichester: October 2011–February 2012
Exorcising the Fear Pangolin London: January-March 2012
Edward Burra Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham: March - May 2012
Hepworth Surgical Drawings, and tour to Chichester, Pallant House Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield: October 2012–February 2013
A perfect place to grow, celebrating 175 years Royal College of Art, London: November 2012–January 2013
Elisabeth Frink: Retrospective The Lightbox, Woking: January–April 2013
William Scott Jerwood Gallery, Hastings: April–July 2013
Eduardo Paolozzi – Collaging Culture Pallant House, Chichester: July–October 2013
Summer Exhibition Royal Academy, London: June – August 2014
Edward Burra: A Rye View Jerwood Gallery, Hastings: February-June 2015
Ravilious Dulwich Picture Gallery, London: April-August 2015
Hepworth: A Greater Freedom Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield: April 2015-April 2016
Taking Flight: St Ives in the 1950s Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Keswick: June-October 2015
William Gear 1915-1997: The painter that Britain forgot Towner Gallery, Eastbourne and touring to City Art Centre, Edinburgh: July 2015-February 2016
John Tunnard: Nature, Politics and Science Durham Art Gallery, Durham: July-October 2015
Shorelines: Artists on the South Coast St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire September 2015-January 2016
Elisabeth Frink: The Presence of Sculpture Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham: November 2015-February 2016
Out There: Our Post-War Public Art East Wing Galleries, Somerset House, London: February-April 2016
Circles of Influence: British Art 1915-50 - A Diarist's Perspective Otter Gallery, Chichester: February-April 2016
Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich: April-August 2016
Kenneth Armitage 1916-2002: Centenary Exhibition Victoria Art Gallery, Bath: September-November 2016
Selected artists from the Ingram Collection
Robert Adams Eileen Agar John Aldridge Sybil Andrews Maxwell Ashby Armfield Kenneth Armitage John Armstrong Frank Auerbach Michael Ayrton John Banting Edward Bawden John Bellany Tony Bevan David Bomberg John Boyd John Bratby Ralph Brown Edward Burra Reg Butler Sir Anthony Caro David Carr Dora Carrington Lynn Chadwick Suki Chan Billy Childish Geoffrey Clarke Robert Clatworthy Cecil Collins Stephen Conroy John Craxton Ken Currie John Davies Sir Jacob Epstein Richard Eurich Mary Fedden Paul Feiler Clifford Fishwick Donald Hamilton Fraser Barnet Freedman Dame Elisabeth Frink Sir Terry Frost Henri Gaudier-Brzeska William Gear Tom Gentleman Mark Gertler Eric Gill Charles Ginner Derrick Greaves Robert Duckworth Greenham Dame Barbara Hepworth Josef Herman Patrick Heron Tristram Hillier Roger Hilton David Hockney Peter Howson James Hull Sir Augustus John Andrew Johnson Allen Jones David Jones Felix Kelly Eric Kennington R.B. Kitaj Dame Laura Knight Jacob Kramer Gerald Laing Henry Lamb Edward Le Bas Wyndham Lewis Alan Lowndes Peter McLaren Padraig MacMiadhachain Christopher Marvell Denis Matthews Bernard Meadows John Minton Sir Henry Moore John Nash C.R.W. Nevinson Mary Newcomb Ben Nicholson Winifred Nicholson Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Sir Robin Philipson Glynn Philpot John Piper Cyril Power Dod Procter Eric Ravilious Anne Redpath Alan Reynolds Ceri Richards Ray Richardson Bridget Riley William Roberts Leonard Rosoman Michael Sandle William Scott John Skeaping Austin Osman Spare Ruskin Spear Gilbert Spencer Sir Staney Spencer Blair Hughes Stanton Graham Sutherland Margaret Thomas Julian Trevelyan John Tunnard William Turnbull Leon Underwood Keith Vaughan Carel Weight Bryan Wynter