Spring 2020
I wish you all well in these strange and challenging Corona Virus times. Please note that I am currently working on the website and it is in a state of flux. Images of work from 2018 and earlier are still to be uploaded. They will be soon!
I wish you all well in these strange and challenging Corona Virus times. Please note that I am currently working on the website and it is in a state of flux. Images of work from 2018 and earlier are still to be uploaded. They will be soon!
Autumn 2019
Return of Come Kiss A Stranger - Why Don't You...? HQ Satellite Space, 41 Talfourd Road, London SE15 5PA . October 17-20 October PV 17 October . Curated by Lucy Soni and Alison Greene
For its seventh year, the Art Licks Weekend takes on the theme of Interdependence: considering how participating projects work within a network of friendship, exchange and shared dialogue.
Turps Banana - Off-Site Programme Year 2
Continuing the painting programme with Turps Banana. Been a brilliant experience.
Art Car Boot Fair - Margate September 28 1-6pm
Come and see me and my fellow Off-Bananas in our yellow banana camper van down by the seaside for some great art bargains. Title: Return of
Return of Come Kiss A Stranger - Why Don't You...? HQ Satellite Space, 41 Talfourd Road, London SE15 5PA . October 17-20 October PV 17 October . Curated by Lucy Soni and Alison Greene
For its seventh year, the Art Licks Weekend takes on the theme of Interdependence: considering how participating projects work within a network of friendship, exchange and shared dialogue.
Turps Banana - Off-Site Programme Year 2
Continuing the painting programme with Turps Banana. Been a brilliant experience.
Art Car Boot Fair - Margate September 28 1-6pm
Come and see me and my fellow Off-Bananas in our yellow banana camper van down by the seaside for some great art bargains. Title: Return of
Summer 2019
Mexico, Ovalo Galeria de Arte and artnumber23, Mexico City, Mexico 5-11 August
Excited to have two small paintings shown in Mexico City this summer. Thinking as I often do about looking and seeing and making and viewing, whilst treading the line between figuration and abstraction and illustration.
Mexico, Ovalo Galeria de Arte and artnumber23, Mexico City, Mexico 5-11 August
Excited to have two small paintings shown in Mexico City this summer. Thinking as I often do about looking and seeing and making and viewing, whilst treading the line between figuration and abstraction and illustration.
Green Eye [above] and Blue Eyes . 2019 . Acrylic and gesso on panel . 12.5 x 17.5 cm
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Somerset 20th July - 11 August
Painted wooden sculptures, Witness I and Witness II were selected for the Wells Art contemporary Awards, shown in Wells Cathedral.
Painted wooden sculptures, Witness I and Witness II were selected for the Wells Art contemporary Awards, shown in Wells Cathedral.
Witness I . 2019 . Acrylic and gesso, found wood, perspex .
Art Car Boot Fair, Lewis Cubitt Square, King's Cross June
Had a great time with fellow Turps Bananas in manning and selling artworks at the Art Car Boot Fair. Great opportunity to make new watercolours using digital copies of images from my series Artful Carelessness (see below). I've taken these prints of black and white photographs featured in a 1950s book on flower arranging etiquette. Selected partly for the text that accompanies the images which is so redolent of the time. The flowers on each 13cm digital print are hand-painted in watercolour. To accompany these I have produced 25 postcards of the watercolours. Available for purchase at £1.00 each or 25 for £20.00 - please email me if you are interested.
Had a great time with fellow Turps Bananas in manning and selling artworks at the Art Car Boot Fair. Great opportunity to make new watercolours using digital copies of images from my series Artful Carelessness (see below). I've taken these prints of black and white photographs featured in a 1950s book on flower arranging etiquette. Selected partly for the text that accompanies the images which is so redolent of the time. The flowers on each 13cm digital print are hand-painted in watercolour. To accompany these I have produced 25 postcards of the watercolours. Available for purchase at £1.00 each or 25 for £20.00 - please email me if you are interested.
Spring 2019
WORK-SHOP, Bell House, Dulwich 11-12th May
New works shown alongside art and artists' editioned goods by artists, Nicky Hirst, Laura Morton-Griffiths, Lucy Soni and Kim Thornton as part of Dulwich Festival and Dulwich Artists Open House, including a series of mini paintings and painted desk-top sculptures made from found pieces of wood worked on with acrylic paint, pen and pencil (see Sculpture page) plus a new silk scarf (60x60cm) textile project - wearable paintings taken from my series Something's Gotta Happen: Colour Works.
Please email me on min.angel@mac.com if you are interested in purchasing a Made By Min: Colour Works scarf.
WORK-SHOP, Bell House, Dulwich 11-12th May
New works shown alongside art and artists' editioned goods by artists, Nicky Hirst, Laura Morton-Griffiths, Lucy Soni and Kim Thornton as part of Dulwich Festival and Dulwich Artists Open House, including a series of mini paintings and painted desk-top sculptures made from found pieces of wood worked on with acrylic paint, pen and pencil (see Sculpture page) plus a new silk scarf (60x60cm) textile project - wearable paintings taken from my series Something's Gotta Happen: Colour Works.
Please email me on min.angel@mac.com if you are interested in purchasing a Made By Min: Colour Works scarf.
Colour Works silk scarves, nos. 16, 7, 6, and 1 from the painting series Something's Gotta Happen: Colour Works . 2019 . Silk . 60cm x 60 cm .
Four point five 1-57 ongoing series. Acrylic on found wood . 2019 . 4.5 x 6.4 cm . Detail
Autumn 2018
Past Present Continuous Mockba Project, Moscow . November 1st - 14th
In An Unspecified Time You Are Looking At This... was selected by the Mockba Project and artnumber23 for their collaborative exhibition in Moscow.
Acrylic and charcoal on panel, 40 x 40cm
Past Present Continuous Mockba Project, Moscow . November 1st - 14th
In An Unspecified Time You Are Looking At This... was selected by the Mockba Project and artnumber23 for their collaborative exhibition in Moscow.
Acrylic and charcoal on panel, 40 x 40cm
At the beginning of October, Bam-BOO! Second Bucketting, and Cardboard Boxness: The Variable Dimensions of Painting III were included in Artist and Curator Lucky Soni's exhibition Lucky 7 Over The Rainbow, part of the Art Licks Weekend. In these three works I used paint to explore formal concerns such as surface, colour and composition and consider temporal concerns of intervention, placement, reconfiguration and exchange.
Bam-BOO! . 2018 . bamboo, acrylic, cardboard, tape, hardware . Dimensions variable. Installed at Why Don't You HQ, Camberwell.
Cardboard Boxness: The Variable Dimensions of Painting III . 2018 . Cardboard boxes, acrylic paint, tape, webbing, wood . 100cm x 100cm x 40 cm
Second Bucketting . 2018 . Plastic bucket, wood, acrylic paint . Installed at Why Don't You HQ, Camberwell.
Turps Banana
In September 2018 I joined the inaugural Off-Site Painting Programme with Turps Banana alongside 6 fellow painters. This is an artist led programme providing mentoring, peered learning in our own studios, together with a series of talks held on site at Turps in Thurlow Street. It is designed to generate stimulating conversation and debate, through discourse and practice. Advancing individual development during an intensive and supported one year programme. I am really looking forward to pushing my painting forward and working alongside practicing painters.
In September 2018 I joined the inaugural Off-Site Painting Programme with Turps Banana alongside 6 fellow painters. This is an artist led programme providing mentoring, peered learning in our own studios, together with a series of talks held on site at Turps in Thurlow Street. It is designed to generate stimulating conversation and debate, through discourse and practice. Advancing individual development during an intensive and supported one year programme. I am really looking forward to pushing my painting forward and working alongside practicing painters.
KPP Prize for Art, Architecture and Design: Forms Assembled In The Light . Sunnybank Mills Gallery, Farsley, Leeds September 1st - October 28th
I am delighted to have won the KKP Prize for my 6 drawings from the Continuum series (see Paper page of this website) selected for this show. This series of works are influenced by a visit to Bologna, Ravenna and Ferrara. In the heat and strong Mediterranean sunlight I traced my way in and out of different historical periods, consulting maps and guidebooks, criss-crossing breathtakingly glorious endeavours on foot always somehow at variance with the snaking Disneyesque tourist trains so difficult to avoid. The Byzantine mosaics in Ravenna were all linear beauty, greens, golds and blues. In Bologna fascinated by Cassini’s Sundial in the Basilica di San Petronio I walked the 67metre sunlight line that marked the passage of the sun, that demonstrated the anomalies of the Julian calendar and led to the establishment of the leap year. In Ferrara I was captivated by the depiction of the Serpent on the saints’ robes in a fragment of a fresco in Casa Romei - and thought about the loaded symbolism of serpentine curves. In the Monastery in Polesine I was blown away by the school of Giotto frescoes. It was thrilling to witness these extraordinary achievements - forms assembled over time in the light.
With many thanks to all at Sunnybank Mills and KPP for the award.
Below: Continuum 6, 2017, Pen, pencil, watercolour on paper, 29 x 29 cm
I am delighted to have won the KKP Prize for my 6 drawings from the Continuum series (see Paper page of this website) selected for this show. This series of works are influenced by a visit to Bologna, Ravenna and Ferrara. In the heat and strong Mediterranean sunlight I traced my way in and out of different historical periods, consulting maps and guidebooks, criss-crossing breathtakingly glorious endeavours on foot always somehow at variance with the snaking Disneyesque tourist trains so difficult to avoid. The Byzantine mosaics in Ravenna were all linear beauty, greens, golds and blues. In Bologna fascinated by Cassini’s Sundial in the Basilica di San Petronio I walked the 67metre sunlight line that marked the passage of the sun, that demonstrated the anomalies of the Julian calendar and led to the establishment of the leap year. In Ferrara I was captivated by the depiction of the Serpent on the saints’ robes in a fragment of a fresco in Casa Romei - and thought about the loaded symbolism of serpentine curves. In the Monastery in Polesine I was blown away by the school of Giotto frescoes. It was thrilling to witness these extraordinary achievements - forms assembled over time in the light.
With many thanks to all at Sunnybank Mills and KPP for the award.
Below: Continuum 6, 2017, Pen, pencil, watercolour on paper, 29 x 29 cm
Summer 2018
From 27th August until 2nd September Artful Carelessness: The Value Of The Dalia Is Lost was in artnumber23's exhibition Nostalgia at the Municipal Gallery of Piraeus in Greece. This was the 4th and final part of their Nostalgia season. I showed 6 digital prints of b/w photos taken from a found book on the etiquette of flower arranging for the 1950s housewife. The photos are 'helpfully' and 'artfully' captioned, but as with the problematic nature of nostalgia as a melancholic longing for a golden and better past the captions and text pivot on fallacies. The darker subtext here is the striving and failing of women to reach female perfection. Beware nostalgia, it is an in-between transitional state, a transmuted memory which waits in the recesses of our minds ready to ambush us, flinging us backwards and sideways away from the realities of the present. It’s easy to be seduced by nostalgia and accidental encounters.
From 27th August until 2nd September Artful Carelessness: The Value Of The Dalia Is Lost was in artnumber23's exhibition Nostalgia at the Municipal Gallery of Piraeus in Greece. This was the 4th and final part of their Nostalgia season. I showed 6 digital prints of b/w photos taken from a found book on the etiquette of flower arranging for the 1950s housewife. The photos are 'helpfully' and 'artfully' captioned, but as with the problematic nature of nostalgia as a melancholic longing for a golden and better past the captions and text pivot on fallacies. The darker subtext here is the striving and failing of women to reach female perfection. Beware nostalgia, it is an in-between transitional state, a transmuted memory which waits in the recesses of our minds ready to ambush us, flinging us backwards and sideways away from the realities of the present. It’s easy to be seduced by nostalgia and accidental encounters.
Thank you to artYesart.co.uk for posting six of my collages in their on-line exhibition celebrating London. Some time ago before a bike accident I would cycle around London with my camera, these collages developed from photographs that I would take on my journeys. Below, London's South Bank, 2001, collage, oil pastel on paper, 10.5 x 18cm
