Painter, sculptor, collagist and etcher, born George Bryan Ingham in Preston, Lancashire. He studied at St Martin’s School of Art, 1957–61, with Frederick Gore and Archibald Ziegler, then Royal College of Art, 1961–4, under Carel Weight, with a stay at British Academy, Rome, 1966. An Italian Government Scholarship and a Leverhulme Postgraduate Research Award were won by Ingham. Group exhibitions included Lords Gallery from 1964; Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives and New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, from 1976. Had a solo show at Graffiti Gallery, 1980, others in Germany, then a series at Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery from 1988. Showed at the Book Gallery, St Ives, in the 1990s. Department of the Environment, Dartington Hall and Ashgate Trusts and Print Collectors’ Club in Washington, America, commissioned Ingham, whose work is held by Arts Council, Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Victoria & Albert Museum and many other public collections in Britain and abroad.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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