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IJE-ARTIST

ARTIST-HEALER WITH A NOMADIC ART PRACTICE CREATING SENSUOUS FABRICATIONS OF ENERGETIC MEMORIES

Ije (pronounced eejay)

Artist-healer exploring metaphysical and material realities through a sensuous, nomadic arts practice fusing personal memory, embodied practice and material intervention. My creations are extensions of the rhythms of my body, active evolving sites of experimentation, fabrications of sensuous energetic memories.

                                                                

A prolific maker, creating territories across several lines of enquiry concurrently, I am physically and mystically engaged in encounters with landscape, the elements, and perdurance. Predominantly self-taught, I have an MA Fine Art, I have exhibited across the UK, won The Chameleon Arts Prize 2019 (Surface Gallery) and I am an Ambassador and Artist Advisor for the national charity – Outside In.

Pieces by IJE can be found in private and corporate collections in the UK, China, France, Ireland and Norway.

 

Each series of artworks can include paintings, sculptures, photographs and words and these are accessed via the drop downs in the Art by IJE section. 

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IJE ARTIST BIO

A global majority artist, originally from Scotland, now living in the West Midlands, my sensuous practice draws on a lifetime of moving. Moving across the UK and beyond, exploring landscapes, from wild spaces of mountains and coastlines, to mining and farming communities to industrial towns and cities. Moving with energy, with colour; dancing to rhythms of time, moving amongst smooth spaces. 

MAFA 2016 and Dip FA 2014 Birmingham City University 

2024    a-n The Artists Information Company / Freelands Foundation Bursary

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo

2020     I RELEASE MY COLOURS (Part 2) Surface Gallery (both floors), Nottingham

2020     I RELEASE MY COLOURS (Part 1) Artspace Windows, The Row and Arcadia, Coventry

Small Group (up to 8 artists)

2024     THE GRANGE FESTIVAL The Grange Festival/Outside In partnership exhibition (6 artists), The  Grange, Hampshire

2022     HOWDEN GROUP Howden Group/Outside In partnership (4 artists), One Creechurch Place, London; (painting purchased Howden Art Collection)

https://outsidein.org.uk/news/howden-group-partnership-launch-event-is-a-great-success/

2022     ENCOUNTERS (3 artists) Floor One Gallery, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby  

2021     MULTIPLICITY OF US (7Afro-descendant artists) Arcadia, Coventry

Large Group (9+ artists)

2025    UNDOINGS: Exploring Making and Unmaking Sussex Contemporary at BN9, East Sussex

2025    PAINTING Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield

2024    COLOUR Open Gallery, Halifax, West Yorkshire

2024     LEAMINGTON OPEN Leamington Spa Art Gallery, Leamington Spa

2024     C.A.S.E. The Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry

2023     RUGBY OPEN EXHIBITION Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby; (2015 + 2017 to 2022)

2023     ING DISCERNING EYE Mall Galleries, London

2022     PROGRESSION D Contemporary, London

2021     OPEN 21: Queen Street Gallery, South Wales

2019     CHAMELEON: CONTEMPORARY COLOUR Surface Gallery, Nottingham; Chameleon Art Prize winner

2019     IATC G&C Gallery, Tunbridge Wells; (3 paintings purchased for Chinese corporate collection)

2019   LIGHT HOUSE OPEN EXHIBITION Light House Gallery & Media Centre, Wolverhampton

2019   FERENS OPEN EXHIBITION  Ferens Gallery, Hull (also 2017)

2018   our eARTh Kunsthuis Gallery, N. Yorks

 

PERFORMANCE / PROJECTS

2024     RUGBY LITERARY FESTIVAL performance of Sensuous Fabrications of Energetic Memories (parts 1-3), Alexandra Arts Centre, Rugby

2024     APE performance of Sensuous Fabrications of Energetic Memories (part 1), RMBL, Birmingham

2023     GRASRUTSZINE #3: THE YELLOW ONE (publication)

2021     BLACK ARTISTS’ PROJECT (Outside In) facilitated by Pauline Bailey and Jose Sunshine-Okoro (8 West Midlands based global majority artists taking part in 4 x “Zoom Cafes”)

2019     WHEN WOMEN SPEAK: THE TOUR performance at The Wightman Theatre, Shrewsbury

Upcoming Exhibitions

PERDURANCE 6: SHAPING THE HABITS OF MY B

CONTACT ME

Thank you for your interest. For any inquiries, commission requests or studio visits, please contact IJE-art today.

WARWICKSHIRE, ENGLAND, UK

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