Ian has an MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practice from the School of Art, Birmingham City University. He is a Midlands 4 Cities AHRC funded PhD researcher at Birmingham City University. His practice-based research is titled Visual Representations and Cultural (Re) Constructions of Black British Masculinities in 21st Century Birmingham.

As a freelance curator, recent exhibitions include Reimaging Donald Rodney at Vivid Projects (2016), Donald Rodney at Celine Gallery, Glasgow International (2021) and Cut & Mix, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (2021). In addition, as a curator in residence for Coventry Biennial (2021), he delivered Interference:s an illustrated public discussion about the BLK Art Group and their legacy.

He is a member of the Executive Advisory Group for New Art West Midlands and Film Hub Midlands Advisory Group. He is a director of performing and visual arts organisation Kalaboration and on the board of directors for Vivid Projects, a non-profit company supporting media arts practice and artist-led exhibition space Ort Gallery. In 2021 he was invited to join the Blk Art Group Research Project set up by former ‘Blk Art Group’ members Claudette Johnson, Marlene Smith and Keith Piper in 2011.