Ian Green

Ian Green

Born 1962 in Coventry, UK 

My work is broadly informed by the contrasts of urban and rural.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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Early obsessions with derelict buildings and environments, car scrapyards and fragments of youth culture (being a Glam Rock fan who'd seen the last gasps of the Teddy Boys and lived through Mods, Rockers, Hippies and Skinheads …. then Punk happened)

Between these worlds my practice exists.

The quality, patterns, textures and shapes of different materials, burned wood sculptural installations which reference the mythology of folklore, ritual and transformation. Hauntology found in the clash of urban/rural edgelands - represented through screen prints pushed beyond image into abstraction. Experimental short films as an examination of the presence of psychic forces.