Bobby Ingham (b. 2001, Leeds) is an interdisciplinary artist and electronic and spoken-word musician working across movement, film, and sound. His practice explores identity, escapism, and lived experience through constructed environments and heightened atmospheres, drawing on both personal narratives and those of others. Sound operates as a central force within his work, shaping environments where voice, rhythm, and image intersect.
Movement appears within his practice as an extension of sonic inquiry. In a recent film work, Ingham and Zahra Van Nguyen perform as angelic figures. Ingham incorporating gestures informed by the dance style cutting shapes, which he grew up doing. Within the film, movement functions as a symbolic and physical proposition of flight - suggesting the body’s capacity to lift from the weight of past experience and momentarily escape social, psychological, and spatial constraints.
Ingham engages the esoteric through costume, colloquial language, and symbolic gesture, blending the real with the mystical and historical to examine contemporary urban life in the North of England. His works operate as open systems where material, image, sound, and movement converge, investigating memory, place, and the possibility of escape within modern city living.
Alongside his visual practice, Ingham produces fast, heavy, and atmospheric electronic and spoken-word music. Using field recordings, synthesizers, drum machines, and voice, he builds soundscapes that channel tension into immersive experiences. Regional colloquialisms and his own Northern accent are folded into compositions, treating the voice as an instrument and vernacular speech as texture within the work.
Ingham graduated from Leeds Arts University in 2020, Goldsmiths, University of London in 2023 and studied on the Conditions Studio Programme(2024) and Conditions Online Programme (2025).
Selected exhibitions include “Angel Of The North (Film)”, Artist Film Night, ANNEX By The KoppelProject, London (2025); “Angel Of The North (Film)”, Held Up To The Light: A Variety Show, Matchstick Piehouse, London (2025); “Angel Of The North (Film)”, Conditions Exhibition, Whitgift Centre, London (2024); “Angel Of The North (Performance)”, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (2024); “Digital Lifestyle”, Niamh Quigley's Curated Exhibition, AMP Gallery, London (2023); “Amateurs”, Goldsmiths Group Exhibition, Copeland Gallery, London (2023); “RUN”, Entropy Group Exhibition, Lieu Idéal, Paris, France (2023); “UNEARTHED”, Group Exhibition, Swiss Church in London, London (2023); “Documentary Vision”, Group Exhibition, hARTSlane, New Cross, London (2023); “entropy”, Group Exhibition, Lieu Idéal, Paris, France (2023); “Get Lost”, Unit 8, London (2023); “And When The Bells Of Memory Chime”, AMP Gallery, London (2023); and “Light Beams Under A Bridge”, Film Festival, Gasholder Park, Grand Union Canal, London (2023).
Bobby Ingham has been featured by renoun arts organizations such as The Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA), The Fader, Plaster Magazine, NTS and others