RICHARD FORSTER

Forster’s earlier sculptural works offered a counterpoint to this flow of drawing process, deliberating on the often theatrical nature of presenting work in public situations. The last few years have seen a consolidation of drawing as his primary activity, and a rigorous conceptualisation both to his subject-matter and to its point and mode of address.

In 2014, Ingleby hosted a major survey exhibition of Forster’s work, Modern, that toured to the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester in 2015. Forster’s major new body of work focusing on the American post-war housing development Levittown was shown at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex in the summer of 2016. Forster’s exhibition Notes on Architecture was exhibited in 2019 at both The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, and Timothy Taylor Gallery, London.

Ingleby presented a solo exhibition by Forster between September - November 2024 titled, _OST..! _, which featured new works on paper and sculpture. Exploring, as he puts it “a dialectic around place”, OST..! was a continuation of the curious connection that Forster has formed over the past 20 years between his childhood spent in the industrial community of Teesside in Thatcherite Britain, the rise and fall of the socialist experiment in East Germany and post-war American Suburbia. In Summer 2025, OST..! toured to Gerhard Marcks Künstlerhaus, the Ahrenshoop home and studio of one of Germany’s most celebrated sculptors of the 20th century.

Courtesy Ingleby