Biography of alan ingham artist
Biography of alan ingham artist
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Ben Uri Research Unit
Born:1920 Christchurch, New Zealand
Died:1994 Sydney, Australia
Year of Migration to the UK:1949
Biography
Sculptor Alan Ingham was born on 19 August 1920 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
His father was an English labourer who had emigrated from Lancashire, while his mother was from New Zealand. Ingham studied art at the Christchurch School of Art under the English sculptor Francis Shurrock (1887–1977), but his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War.
He served with the New Zealand Air Force ground staff from 1941–46, afterwards moving to Sydney, Australia, where he studied sculpture at East Sydney Technical College under Lyndon Dadswellin, gaining his Diploma of Fine Arts in 1949.
In order to expand his artistic horizons, later the same year Ingham travelled to Europe via London. He later recalled: 'I’d planned my European tour by searching through my books of sculpture and finding where they are located [...] but constantly found