Ian Giles: Press down / Pressure (after Giles Bailey), 2023.

As a multidisciplinary artist, making ink paintings allows Ian Giles time to explore and expand the visual language around his performances and filmmaking. The images he creates nod to works by other artists, found images and nature.

Product Information

2023

Ink on Paper

Framed: 53cm (w) x 45cm (h)

About the Artist

Ian Giles was born in Gloucester in 1985. Working across performance, moving image, installation, painting and events; his work fosters new networks to record and celebrate queer histories and experiences.

He completed his BFA at Chelsea College of Arts and his MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. 

Selected exhibitions, performances and screenings include: Soft Structures at MIMA, Middlesbrough [2023/24]; ‘On Railton Road’ at Museum of the Home, London [2023]; ‘A Clear Comfort’ at Van Gogh House, London [2023]; ‘The London Open’ at Whitechapel Gallery, London [2022]; ‘Outhouse’, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge & Firstsite, Colchester [2019] and ‘After BUTT’ at MoMA PS1 during the NY Art Book Fair, New York [2018].

He was a New Geographies commissioned artist [2018/20]. His resulting performance and installation was acquired with the support from the V&A Purchase Grant Fund for Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery Collection. 

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