Ingrid Plum is a Danish-born Artist living in the U.K.

Whilst studying Music and Visual Arts at Brighton Univerity Ingrid had to go part-time in 2002 due to illness. This led to the sound/video installation  "Transformation Of Ignored Things (part one)", which was a big turning point in her work.

Her work mainly consists of installations using video, sound, sculpture and live performances, often involving a spatial arrangement of screens,monitors and objects to create dialogues between visuals and the spaces they are shown in. The imagery filmed focuses on unnoticed, accidental phenomena that occur in our everyday environment, sometimes recreated in a studio or filmed on location. "I particularly like working in video because it causes us to experience the past simultaneously with the present." The sound in her work comprises of soundscapes she creates herself using original recordings. Ingrid has directed performers and involved sculptural elements such as glass, helium balloons and huge clusters of handmade objects such as origami birds as part of her installations.

"The intention of my work is to allow the audience to contemplate both the ignored events and the processes of perception we use to observe them in life. Through the methods used in creating the work, it also allows the audience to experience these moments in a way that is not normally possible, by altering their experience of time and space. I try to strip away the layers of distraction surrounding these moments in everyday life and show them in as minimal a way as possible. I think the best minimal work allows the viewer to bring himself or herself into the work, and in this way it serves a purpose, like meditation. As an alternative to confrontational work that provokes a reaction or discussion from the audience, like holding up a mirror, my work aims to allow the audience space to explore their thoughts, like looking into a pool of water. It is purposefully creating a 'tank to think in' rather than a 'think tank'."

Ingrid Plum, 2005.

Click here to view a history of Ingrid Plum's exhibitions.