Artist Bio

Born in East London, Leanne Ingram grew up in a working class family with very fond childhood memories. Leanne Ingram had always expressed an interest in art but this was especially realised after she, her parents and younger sisters moved to Westmoreland Jamaica in 2009. After four and a half years in Jamaica the family decided to move back to London. Leanne Ingram went on to study art and graduated from Falmouth University with a first class degree in Fine Art. She has since continued cultivating her practice in her studio at Royal Albert Wharf whilst working as an arts educator with Bow Arts. She is currently exhibiting at the Horniman Museum as part of the Ode to the Ancestors Reclaiming African History exhibition. Leanne incorporates storytelling and multiple narratives as an act of reparation and as a means to critique imbalances of power. Her work highlights peoples and their histories that have been systemically erased in the cycle of violence that continues to be enacted  as a result of institutionalised racism. Leanne’s work explores personal history relating to her British/Jamaican upbringing, representations of blackness and the multifaceted experience of being part of the African diaspora. Her work navigates feelings of otherness that coincide with being labelled an immigrant in the country where you were born in and also being described as a foreigner in the country you were told that you are from. While she works across various medium's, her studio practice is primarily painting as she loves the process of discovery through painting and the link this has with her research. Leanne's years spent growing up in Jamaica remain great influences within her work.