Deluge (2017 – Ongoing)

Deluge was an interdisciplinary, multi-partnered and multi-sited lens-based arts project with funding support from Arts Council Wales and Arts Council England. Through her expanded practice – photography, film, and digital textiles – Ingham uses approaches like cultural geography to explore key materials and narratives that allegorize how we’ve arrived at the Anthropocene, our current geological age where human activity is the major factor in global instability and climate change. Deluge focuses on the consequences of a tide of globalisation by alluding to global contexts through a local lens making visible the complexity and fragility of our interconnected environments. The project involved collaboration with cultural archaeologists, marine biologists and cultural geographers at Swansea University and many of the exhibition and public engagement outputs took place in 2018, the Year of the Sea in Wales. A major project partner was Fotonow in Plymouth, a socially engaged lens-based arts community interest company founded by Ingham’s long term collaborator Matthew Pontin.  The first phase of the project was completed in 2019 but discussions around using Deluge as a platform for future collaborations with the South West continue.

Karen