IAN COLEMAN
lan Coleman is a Scottish participatory artist whose practice centers on human connection. Operating at the crossroads of contemporary social practice, street art, and community building, his unique methodology involves collecting and carefully arranging hundreds, to thousands of individual signatures to construct complex, large-scale visual works.
Coleman holds a BSc and an MFA in Fine Art and Humanities from the University of Dundee (DJCAD). His collaborative projects and public commissions include partnerships with the V&A Museum Dundee, University of Dundee, Kelvingrove Museum and the World Union of Karate Federations, among others.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My process involves an invitation into an artistic space. I ask people to become artists for a moment, to leave their signature, name, tag, or talisman as an expression of themselves, where each individual mark becomes an integral part of a larger, unified whole.
I view these works as a reflection of humanity, where ordinary people chose to manifest an idea together. It is about creation and belonging; a space where individuality, creativity and positivity converge to produce a shared visual language. The people who choose to get involved make the artworks with me.