Ian James Carr

**dimensions of artworks are in cm. (not inches)**

What can I say I'm a man of few words, sure I get it in on a Friday tying one on with the boys but for the most part I'm just observing, watching the wind and wondering what happens when you poke the bear in the eye. I was born in New England. My parents eloped and that's where they settled and I was their love child. My father, a writer and painter and creative of all sorts, normalized art for me from a young age, and my mother, a saint, gave me some grit and some perseverance.
I moved from a quaint and painfully boring Connecticut town to Amsterdam three days after my 18th birthday. I had two suitcases and an acceptance letter from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie of art and design, and I had no idea was I was getting into, other that this was surely better than anything back home. I threw myself into the great unknown and got two educations for the price of one. A worldly and wonderful burst of live action city international mayhem of new everything, and the other a deep and refined boot-camp of art and creativity, philosophy, fear, and sweat and glory and heavy lifting. The dual-sided aspect of my "college years" gave me more that I had ordered and I was fine with that.
Since...

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
Fine Arts BFA

GHAA, Connecticut, USA
TV/FIlmmaking GED