Aaron Ford

Aaron Ford is an artist and researcher based in London, becoming a Research Fellow at the ICS in 2024. He has exhibited internationally, previously being granted the Sainsbury Scholarship at the British School at Rome (2023).

His work addresses migration; how people, their images and art migrate culturally across history, often along lines of colonialisation, searching for different symbols which recur throughout art and history.

At the British School at Rome he examined European depictions of hypermasculinity in ancient figures such as Hannibal and how they parallel with paradigms of male health and beauty in fascist Italy.

Recent shows include ‘You were kept awake all through the night’, British School at Rome (2024), ‘Perfect Passive’ Xxijra Hii Gallery, London (2023), ‘On the Edge of Fashion’, Rose Easton Gallery, London (2023).

He has participated in and organised public events, coordinating workshops titled ‘Negotiating the Italian Legacy’ with students at NABA University at Rome (2024), participating in an in-conversation event between himself and artist Michael Armitage (BSR, 2024) as well as a panel discussion at Rose Easton gallery, responding to his work on traditional Ghanaian kente cloth with fashion writer Caroline Evans (2023).