Rolling Fog in it’s new London home
“Rolling Fog is a big beautiful painting - Time slips by while gazing at it - the more you look the more you see, it is as if the ‘Rolling Fog” is continually revealing itself - such a clever piece - it is a joy and privilege to have in my home.” SL LondonW2
In the studio
Artist Statement
A hitch knot fastens a rope to another object, a bend knot fastens two ends of a rope to each other, a loop knot loops, a splice knot is a multi-stranded knot and a tangled knot is the result of accidental confusion. Whether an intentional joining or an unintentional tightening, a knot by its very nature is a meeting-point, a complex transformation of line into form which conceals inner folds and changes in direction. It is a good analogy for life and my multidisciplinary practice and methodology. In my paintings I make connections; working imaginatively and intuitively between figuration, abstraction and drawing, knotting together the painterly and pictorial to explore our aliveness and our interconnectedness.
My subjects are metaphysical and psychological, my territories are the senses, emotions and physical matter. My interests lie in belief systems and practices, the stories we tell ourselves, enchantment and the imagination and the slippages between the known and unknown. The image is important but I am led predominantly by ideas and feelings, a love of the haptic and felt-sense experiences. I work in series exploring themes of encounter, transformation, the otherworldly and the gaze.
My inspiration comes from art history, mythology, devotional images, story-telling and the practices of Cosmic Qigong and Zen meditation. Paintings may start on or off stretcher bars, on single or multiple sewn canvases onto which I make chanced marks in charcoal or chalk. I roll acrylic paint or dropping inks and liquid watercolours onto the surface, building gestures and marks, repeating the motif of dots, dashes and oval shapes until forms emerge, get worked over and eventually transform into forms and image. It is a dynamic process of constructing, editing and reworking. I keep the process explorative and fluid enjoying the reveal in the making. It is an intuitive and reflective practice as I intertwine materials and forms to create meeting-points between the tangible and the intangible allowing matter and texture to fasten, tangle and slip in and out of our grasp.
Biog
Min Angel lives and works in South London. She graduated in 1990 in Art History from University College London and had a career in Arts Administration working at English National Opera, the Design Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum and other art organisations. After raising two children, she gained a BA in Painting from Camberwell College of Art (2006) and a MFA in Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art (2008). In 2011 she studied for a teaching qualification in adult learning and trained as a Guide for the Tate. In 2018 she attended Turps Art School Off-Site programme until 2021.
Group exhibitions in 2024 include, ‘Fierce Scandal’, Margate, BLINK ‘Room Share 5’ and ‘6’, April and September, London, ‘The Tipping Point’, London, SFSA ‘Drawing Open’, London and Studio1.1 ‘This Year’s Model 2024 Part III’. In 2023 she was shortlisted for the ‘Jackson’s Painting Prize’ and exhibited at Bankside Gallery in July. Other shows included ‘Goddesses (A Love Explosion)’ in London and ‘Goddesses on Sea’ Margate, BLINK ‘Room Share 4’, London, September and ‘Windows and Thresholds - Breaking Glass’ at Bell House, Dulwich as part of Dulwich Open House Weekend in May. In 2022, Angel exhibited online in ‘Splash, Drip, Throw’, Visionary Art Collective, Brooklyn, NY, in BLINK’s ‘Room Share 2’, Peckham, in SFSA ‘Drawing Open’ in Deptford, ‘Ways Of Seeing Green’ at the Dulwich Festival, participated in the Art Car Boot Fair and from the end of May to the end of June attended a 32 day, fully funded art residency at Cyprus College of Art. Her painting, ‘How Does The Wind’ was shortlisted for the RA Summer Exhibition in 2022 and ‘The Pools Of Dee’ shortlisted in 2021.
Her work has been exhibited in the UK, Amsterdam, Greece, Romania, Russia, Mexico and Cyprus. At the start of 2021 and 2023 she participated in the online Colour and Poetry Symposium exhibition at the Slade School of Fine Art. In the spring of 2021 Angel co-established the artists’ platform BLINK with artists Lucy Soni and Dido Hallett to provide an opportunity for artists to get work out of the studios and onto the walls of exhibition spaces. The Gathering Part 1 opened at AMP gallery in Peckham in July and in September she curated the work of six artists in BLINK'S second show Room Share. In 2020 she was long-listed for the John Moores Painting Prize. In 2018 she won the KPP Prize For Art, Architecture and Design: Forms Assembled In The Light. In 2010 she had a solo exhibition at the Corn Exchange, Edinburgh.
Alongside her art practice, Angel practices the ancient energy arts of Shaolin Cosmos Qigong and Zen meditation.
Min Angel CV
2024 September – BLINK Room Share 6, Peckham, London (exhibiting and curation)
2024 June – Studio 1:1 This Year’s Model 2024 Part III, London
2024 May – SFSA Drawing Open 2024, London
2024 May – The Tipping Point, Bell House, London (co- curation)
2024 April – BLINK Room Share 5, Peckham, London (curation)
2024 Feb – Fierce Scandal, The Lido Stores, Margate
2023 September - BLINK Room Share 4, Peckham, London (curation)
2023 July - Jackson’s Painting Prize, Bankside, London
2023 July - The Goddesses On Sea, Lido Stores, Margate
2023 May - Windows & Thresholds, Breaking Glass Bell House, London (co-curation)
2023 April - The Goddess (A Love Explosion), Terrace Gallery, London
2023 March - Colour/Print/Poetry, Slade, Colour & Poetry Symposium, virtual exhibition
2023 February - Studio 1:1 Members Show, London
2022 December - 2022 Painting Open, No Format Gallery, Deptford, London
2022 December - Art Car Boot Fair, It’s a Pattern Thing, online
2022 November - Renaissance 2022, Morphe Arts, London
2022 November - Swamp Legends, Terrace Gallery, London
2022 September - BLINK Room Share 3, Peckham, London (curation)
2022 July - iireal, curated by Laura Morton-Griffiths, London
2022 June - What Remains, Lemba, Cyprus
2022 May-June Fully funded Art Residency, Cyprus College of Art, Pathos, Cyprus
2022 May - Electric and Live, Art Car Boot Fair, Coal Drop Yard, London
2022 May - SFSA Drawing Open, Deptford, London
2022 May - Ways Of Seeing Green, Dulwich Festival, Bell House, Dulwich, London
2022 April - Room Share 2, BLINK, Safehouse 1,Peckham, London (curation)
2022 January - Splash, Drip, Throw Visionary Art Collective, Brooklyn, NY, (virtual)
2021 Turps Leavers Show, Thames-side Gallery, London
2021 Room Share, BLINK, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London (curation)
2021 SFSA Open Painting 2021, No Format Gallery, Deptford, London
2021 Part I The Gathering, BLINK, AMP Gallery, Peckham, London (curation)
2021 The Colour & Poetry Symposium, Slade, online exhibition
2020 The Postcard Project, Artists Responding To
2020 ING Discerning Eye, online
2019 Return of Come Kiss A Stranger - Why Don't You...? HQ Satellite Space, London
2019 Art Car Boot Fair, Margate
2019 Off-Site Pilot, Turps Banana, London
2019 Mexico, Ovalo Galeria de Arte and artnumber23, Mexico City, Mexico
2019 Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Somerset
2019 Work-Shop, Dulwich Festival, Bell House, London
2018 Present Perfect Continuous, artnumber23 + Mockba Project, Moscow, Russia
2018 Lucky 7 Over The Rainbow, ArtLicksWeekend 2018 'Peripheries', London
2018 KPP Prize for Art, Architecture and Design: Forms Assembled in the Light, Leeds
2018 London1, artYesart.co.uk, on-line exhibition
2018 Nostalgia (part 4), The Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus, Athens, Greece
2018 Nostalgia (part 3), Splaiul Nicolae Titulescu (Fabrica de Tigari),Timisoara, Romania
2018 Nostalgia, (part 1), Toon, Amsterdam
2018 Our Nature, artnumber23, Old Biscuit Factory, London
Awards:
2018 KPP Prize for Art, Architecture and Design: Forms Assembled in the Light
2006 Graduate School Masters Award, University College London
Public Collections:
2022 Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Cyprus
2010 Corn Exchange Gallery, Edinburgh
2008 University College London Special Collections
Education:
2018-2021 Turps Banana, Postgrad Painting School, Off-Site Programme
2011 UAL/City & Guilds Teaching Life Long Learning Programme
2006-2008 Slade School of Art, University College London, Masters of Fine Art, Sculpture
2003-2006 Camberwell College of Arts, BA (Hons) Painting, First Class
2001-2002 City Literary Institute, Diploma in Art & Design Foundation, Distinction
1987-1990 University College London, BA (Hons) History of Art, First Class
Contact:
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