About

Ilker Cinarel is a Turkish-British artist based in St Ives, Cornwall, UK. Ilker is an artist working in a range of media including performance,film,Installation, learning and social arts practice. Cinarel is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He employs humour as a means to confront the viewer with historical narratives and contemporary culture. Questioning the place of intimacy, humour within an overtly masculine context also desires and needs in human development. 

He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally including Wysing art centre, Cambridge, Northern Charter, New Castle, White Crypt Gallery, London, Guests project, London, S1 Art space, Sheffield, Eastside projects, Birmingham, 6th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul. Cinarel received the 2014 Inland Art Festival award and 2011 Sandra Blow award. 

Ilker is being selected for The Syllabus III, Artist peer-led programme with Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, New Contemporaries, S1 Artspace, Spike Island, Studio Voltaire, Iniva.  

He studied Fine Art at the Marmara University at Istanbul, TR and Contemporary Fine art practice at the Falmouth University, UK. He lives in St Ives and works in Falmouth and Plymouth, UK. Ilker is currently a Lecturer at the Plymouth University and St ives school of painting, UK.