Joseph Ingleby MRSS

Joseph has been based at Glasgow Sculpture Studios since completing post-graduate training at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. The roots of Joseph’s sculptural practice stem from his fascination with the potential that natural or everyday objects have to become something else. The sculptures are evolved forms, holding a memory of their source whilst revealing a sense of the metamorphic process, and have their own rhythm and identity.

These abstracted and semi-abstracted volumetric sculptures are created with metals like steel and copper, sometimes incorporating lighting. Joseph is experienced in working with various professional and community partnerships, and is able to make a sympathetic sculptural statement for any environment. Works range from large, outdoor site-specific pieces to smaller sculpture suitable for domestic, gallery or corporate spaces. Joseph is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner award and his work has been purchased for a public collection through the National Fund for Acquisitions. In 2013 Joe was awarded an Individual Support Grant from the Gottlieb Foundation, New York.

Born 1962  Beverley, East Yorkshire

EDUCATION

1986-88 Post-graduate Higher Diploma in Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London

1983-86 BA (Hons) Degree, First Class, Fine Art (Sculpture) West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham

1980-81  Art Foundation course, Hull College of Higher Education, Hull

MEMBERSHIPS

1999 Elected Associate member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors 

1989 Joined Glasgow Sculpture Studios

AWARDS

2013 Awarded an Individual Support Grant, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York

1999 Small Assistance Grant, Scottish Arts Council towards US Residency Grant from the Hope Scott Trust, Edinburgh towards US Residency

1998 Winner of the Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy Bursary 

1996-97 Major Artist's Award, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York

1995 Grant from the Hope Scott Trust towards SSO8 sculpture

RESIDENCIES

1999 Sculpture Space, Utica, NY State, USA

COMMISSIONS

2023 ‘The Tillydrone Tops’, Aberdeen, commissioned by the Tillydrone Community Trust

2021 ‘Storm Cargo’ for LOCUS public art trail, Lerwick, Shetland, commissioned by Shetland Arts for Living Lerwick and Shetland Islands Council

2016-18 ‘Denny Treasure Trail’, seven sculptures in Denny, Falkirk. Commissioned by Falkirk Council as part of the town regeneration scheme

2012 ‘Waterland’, Bulwell Riverside, Nottingham. Commissioned by Nottingham City Council, funded by Arts Council England, Laing O’Rourke and GN Lift Co.

2001 ‘Slipstream’ sited by the Clyde, Dalmarnock Bridge, Rutherglen; Commissioned by Lanarkshire Enterprise Scotland

2000 ‘Plant Series’ 7 steel and copper sculptures, Aviemore, Scotland. Commissioned by Sustrans

1998 ‘Time Vessel’, Clackmannan Road, Alloa, Scotland Commissioned by Safeway plc and Scottish Metropolitan For Clackmannanshire Council

OTHER PUBLIC SCULPTURE

2011 ‘Reservoir Tap’ sited as part of the University of Stirling Art Collection in the campus; Purchased with a grant from the National Fund for Acquisitions

1995 ‘Turtle Storm’ sited in Queen's Park, Swindon, Wiltshire

1989-91 Sculpture publicly sited at All Hallows School, Aldershot, Hampshire

1989 Sculpture purchased and sited at the William Morris Museum, Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire

1988 Public siting of sculpture for Waverley Borough Council, Godalming, Surrey

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 

2021 ’10 gram Challenge’, Royal Society of Sculptors, RSS Gallery, London

2016 ‘Converge 2016’, Visual Arts Scotland; Royal Scottish Academies, Edinburgh

2010 'Engineered', part of the 18@108 series on sculptors Royal Society of Sculptors, RSS Gallery, London

2002 & 2003 Royal Society of Sculptors Annual Exhibition

1997-98 Solo  show Anderson Christie Architects, Glasgow

1995 Scottish Sculpture Open 8 at Kildrummy Castle,  Aberdeenshire and the University of Stirling campus, Stirling.

1993 Solo show Collective Gallery, Edinburgh