Ian is an artist, filmmaker and writer who lives and works from the Isle of Wight. After graduating from Falmouth College of Arts in 2000 with a degree in Photographic Communication, he spent nearly 20 years working as a professional photographer, with a broad range of clients shooting portraits, advertising and still life. His work has been published in newspapers and magazines globally, including Vogue, New York Times and GQ as well as billboards across the UK. Clients have included - Bayer, Camper Shoes, Greenpeace, Zaha Hadid Architects, Ben Sherman, Visa, L'Oreal, Ecco, Fired Earth, Cole & Son Wallpapers & Oliver Sweeney Shoes.

Ian has exhibited in galleries and private spaces across the UK including the Royal Academy of Arts, as well as being funded by Arts Council England. His early work often produced using a polaroid camera looked at consumerism and corporate branding, removing the façade a consumer would normally be presented with. The images, stark, unfiltered and on a large scale echoed the impact that billboards created in a pre social media age. After he began to shoot portraits commercially, Ian’s personal work evolved, exploring interpersonal family relationships and how individuals manifest relations with their ancestors. The narrative within his imagery was often forged by his own family relationships rather than that of his subjects.

More recently Ian’s work has begun to take inspiration from the great painters of the 18th and 19th Century, using artificial light as a sculptural medium, creating what is a predominantly beautiful yet entirely manufactured landscape. Working in areas that have been affected by climate change his images attempt to coerce the viewer in to overlooking what is being presented to them. The notion of what is real and what is not, and how we are manipulated as individuals by seemingly innocent interactions is at the core of this new work.

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