Robert Ingham - Curriculum Vitae and Resume
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Robert
Ingham: Curriculum Vitae
Education:
1958-60 Loughborough Training College. Teaching
Certificate. Distinction in Crafts & Drama.
1960-61 Diploma of Loughborough College. (DLC)
Distinction in Sliversmithing.
1963 City & Guilds of London Institute. Furniture.
1964 City & Guilds of London Institute. Advanced
Furniture.
1964 Leeds
College of Art. National Diploma of, Design. (NDD) Furniture - Special
Level.
1966 Leeds University.
Diploma of secondary Education, (Dip. Ed.)
Professional Experience:
1961-71 Craft Teacher with
Leeds Education Committee. 1966-76 Part-time lecturer, Leeds College of Art. 1971-76 Own furniture-making business, Thirsk, Yorkshire. In partnership with brother George Ingham (now
Principal of
the School of Furniture Design, Canberra School of Art, Australia.)
1976 - 97 Principal of the
School for Craftsmen in Wood, Parnham College.
1997 Running own workshop in North Wales 2000 Joined research programme, in an advisory capacity, of Buckinghamshire Chilterns University
College.
Additional Information:
Member of the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers.
Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen.
Judging shows and competitions: 'Wood for the Tree' for
the lrish Crafts Council, 'Celebrating Boxes' at Tullie House, Carlisle, in
collaboration with the Crafts Council.
Teaches regular Summer School in UK and USA
Ten pieces of furniture have been awarded Guild Mark by
the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers. Regular contributor of articles
to "Furniture and Cabinetmaking" and judging their competition at the
Axminster Show.
Work in private collections in the USA and Britain,
including:
Work featured in several books on modern furniture.,
including extensive feature in Betty Norbury's new book "Furniture for the
21t Century"
Recent Exhibitions:
British Decorative Art Christies London, 1992 - 1993 Decorative Art Today, Bonhams, London 1993, 94, 95, 96, 98
Society of Designer Craftsmen, Rufford 1997
High Flyer - 20 year of Parnham. London 1997
A Celebration of Craftsmanship and Design, Cheltenham 1995, 97, 98
British Work House, DaIlas 1997
Pritam and Eames, New York. 1997
Artizana, Prestbury, 199&,99 Artifex, SuttonColdfield 1998, 1999, 2004
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 99, 2000 Society of Designer Craftsmen, Mall Gallery 1998, 99 ,2000 Exhibition to launch Book "Furniture for the 21t Century", Banqueting House, Whitehall, 1999 Art in Action 2002, 2003, 205 Celebrating Boxes 2001-2002 Onetree 2001-2002 Furniture Society, Wisconsin USA 2002 Craft in Focus 2004, 2005
Robert Ingham was born in
India, his father being an officer in the colonial police, and was educated
there till the age of eleven. At partition with Pakistan the family opted to
return to England - a decision largely prompted by concern for the
children’s educational future - to live in Yorkshire, his father’s family
home.
Robert trained at
Loughborough College, and at Leeds College of Art, followed by a degree at
Leeds University. After several years teaching he set up a workshop
designing and making furniture, in partnership with his younger brother
George, who had arrived at this point through the more design orientated
route of the Royal college of Art.
Together they ran a highly
successful business in Thirsk, making one-off pieces and small batches.
Eventually they opted for
independent careers, -George to run his own workshop in Hemel Hempstead for
a short time before moving to Australia to set up the furniture school at
Canberra School of Art; and Robert, via a short spell in interior design and
retailing, to Dorset to assist John Makepeace in setting up the school at
Parnham, and thereafter to run it as Principal.
During Robert’s tenure the
school had gone from strength to strength, becoming internationally known,
and producing a string of successful graduates, who are now the backbone of
the British designer-maker elite.
In conjunction with his
teaching, Robert has his own business, Robert Ingham Designs, and wearing
this hat he makes one-off pieces to commission and for exhibition both in
this county and abroad. Several of his pieces have been awarded Guild Marks.
He has exhibited in the
States -at Pritam and Eames Galley, New York, and has important pieces in
private collections in this county and America. He shows regularly at
Decorative Arts Today at Bonhams, A Celebration of Craftsmanship and Design,
Cheltenham, and at the Society of Designer Craftsmen. He has also taught
Summer Schools, both in this county and at Anderson Ranch Arts Centre in
Colorado., and the Centre for Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine.
Recently he has been
Invited to join the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers, been granted the
Freedom of the City of London, and been made a Fellow of the Society of
Designer Craftsmen.
In 1997, after twenty
successful and full years at Parnham, he gave up teaching in order to
concentrate fully on his own work - setting up a workshop in North Wales,
making pieces to commission, and small batches of very collectable boxes.
The new workshop has been featured in several national magazines. In 2000 he has joined, on a part-time research and advisory basis, the staff of Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College. |
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