His work investigates space, architecture and the home, alongside broader themes of disenfranchisement within the built environment.
Using the suburban home as a canvas, Strange's work incorporates large-scale projects, film, photography, site-specific installation, sculptural installations, drawing, painting and on-going research projects[3] Independent art advisor Sarah Crown has said that "Strange's monumental interventions exist on two extremes of the spectrum of destruction and of elevation.
'SHADOW' [2015][8] a large-scale project incorporating suburban homes, documented in film and photography for PUBLIC Festival 2015;[9][failed verification] and 'ZŁOTY',[10] a site-specific intervention onto the exterior of a historical building commissioned by the Intytucja Kultury, Katowice, Poland [2015].
He most recently collaborated with Standard Practice,[11] a New York-based Artist Run Initiative, to present his body of work SUBURBAN on Bowery street in New York, May 2016.
[12] In 2017, a documentary was released and broadcast by ABCTV under the title HOME: The Art of Ian Strange[13][14] In 2018 the State Library of Queensland commissioned Strange to produce a work inspired by the Frank and Eunice Corley House Photographs Collection.