Ian Golding

Ian’s practice is guided by a framework, written by himself, which he revisits and updates continually.

1. I want to avoid defining the creative outcomes that I make.
2. I want to be able to use anything in my work, not just physical material.
3. Work is integral to being human, it makes sense to think of art emerging from work.
4. My hands are part of the process of making, but other hands can participate in this.
5. I am not interested in creating the novel for the sake of it, I would rather synthesise that which I know or can know.
6. All my work is in some way political, but it need not be complex.
7. I don’t want to be obsessed by any one thing, but I do want to be interested in many things.
8. Failure is a feature of being human, I always want my work to relate to being human.
9. I want to make things that somehow alter the world, my work then is evidence of my intervention.
10. I am not interested in representing truth, but I am interested in examining truths.
11. All my work is built upon a small part of the stuff we know, it is therefore anthropological in nature.
12. I like challenge and want my outcomes to challenge others.
13. Fixed beliefs in anything prevents progress.
14. Imagination is what gives all human the potential to create a better world.