At first glance I have two distinct practices: in the first I work in very varied media including kinetic sculpture, film or sometimes performance, and my works often have a political theme. In the second I make figurative sculpture, usually from clay. However the latter part of my practice is becoming increasingly conceptual too: I’ve used the form of the traditional bust to criticise gender inequality and I’m now working on an ambitious piece which I hope will very powerfully address the refugee crisis and the morality implied by the various arguments about it.  Artistic or sculptural language can be a powerful tool; I believe that that the choice of medium can carry deep meaning too. I want my art to be accessible and to foster debate; to be easily argued over.  I’m fascinated by Jacques Rancière’s idea that the power of political art lies not in the tension between the art and its inherent politics but in the tension between it being simultaneously art and non-art: a hundred years after the idea that anything could be art, that art may be infected with non-art and become both more powerful and less valuable.

CV - Ian Wolter

ian@wolter.com

www.ianwolter.com

Education            

2012 - 2015            Cambridge School of Art - BA Hons Fine Art - First

Awards                        

2017            RomArt Sculpture Prize

2016            Arte Laguna Prize (Performance)

2015            Global Sustainability Institute Prize                      

Comissions / Temporary Public Art

2017 Krystyna Skarbek Memorial, Ognisko Polskie, London

2017 Fleeting View, E-luminate Cambridge (collaboration with Susie Olczak

2017 The View from Here, E-luminate Cambridge

Group Exhibitions

2018            

FLUX Exhibition, Chelsea College of Art, London (April)

Art Rooms Roma, The Church Palace, Rome (March)

2017            

RomArt 2017, Stadio di Domiziano, Rome

NOA Exhibition, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London

ALCHEMIC BODY, Jorge Jurado Gallery, Bogotà

2016            

GLOW, Eastbury Manor, Barking & Dagenham

Not a Champagne Life, Hundred Years Gallery, London E2

Final Exhibition, Arte Laguna, Arsenale, Venice

2015            

Art Language Location, Cambridge

Cambridge School of Art Degree Show 2015, Cambridge

Global Sustainability Institute Prize & Exhibition, Ruskin Gallery