Bio and work

Ingrid Jensen is now based in Herefordshire, but as a military child has lived in 12 other UK counties, often in the countryside. She has also lived in Yemen and Norway, briefly in Australia, and has studied and worked in Canada, the US and the UK as an artist, biologist, curator , arts administrator, and teacher.

Her  practice currently combines long standing interests in ecology and history with learning about the rewards and difficulties facing farming.  She loves line, form, colour and materiality, but also the freedom of expression provided by contemporary and conceptual art.  Plaster cowpats and opinionated manequins jostle for space with drawings, paintings and photographs.

OpenHand OpenSpace: Studio member 2009-2020, chair 2010 - 2017, trustee and associate member 2018 to 2023.

Member of Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, 2016 - 2020.

arjeea21 contemporary art group: Co-founder, and part of action team from 2009.

Member of Reading Guild of Artists.

Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London: MA, Fine Art.

Bulmershe College of Higher Education, Reading: Cert Ed (FE).

University of Oxford: Linacre College & Dept of Zoology.

York University Canada: Fine Art, Biology, Ecology.