NEWS - MIN ANGEL

2021

Dot Dot, Dash Dash . 2021 . Acrylic, watercolour and ink on canvas . 76 x 96.5 cm

It's great to be showing this new painting at Thames-Side Galleries, Harrington Way, Off Warspite Road, London as part of the
TURPS LEAVERS SHOW 2019-2021. PV October 2nd 12-4pm, 3rd, 7th-10th, 14th-17th October 12-5pm

Show catalogue will be available soon

Room Share
Happening soon. Our second Blink artists' platform project (check us out on instagram @blinkandyoullmissitart

I am very delighted to have six really talented artists sharing my room. @suzannebakerart @jim.mclean.art @olhapryymak @emma.seach @carolinethomsonart and @johnwyattclarke and also thrilled to be in the house with our guests @matt_lippiatt and @scott_mccracken_ and my fellow Blinkers @LucySoniStudio @HallettDido

Morse Code
2020
  Mixed media on unstretched and unprimed canvas
  185 x 180cm

Coming out of the studios to Room Share in Peckham

SFSA Painting Open 2021 at the No Format Gallery, Deptford
One of my paintings from my Cosmic Traveller series landed in Deptford, part of an exciting show of 100 artists showing work no larger than 30cm. Show opened 9th September and runs over the weekends of 10-12th and 15th-19th September 13:00-18:00. Studio NF01, Casting Hosue, Moulding Lane, Deptford SE14 6BN

RA Summer Exhibition
So close but then so far! It was thrilling to be shortlisted this year for the RA Summer Exhibition. Sadly this little painting didn't make the final selection but it was an exciting prospect for a few weeks.

The Pools Of Dee . Oil on canvas board . 30 x 26 cm

(The title was borrowed from the wonderful writings of Nan Shepherd in her book The Living Mountain)

BLINK AND YOU'LL MISS IT
Artists' Platform

In the early summer I joined up with two painter friends, Lucy Soni and Dido Hallett to form an artists' platform which we called Blink And You'll Miss It - renaming it BLINK for our second show.

We set up the platform in response to the lack of opportunities to exhibit in the mainstream. Our premise is to encourage conversations and provide supportive opportunities for artists to get their work out of the studio and onto the walls of exhibition spaces. Shows in spaces for short durations. The ethos of building a community and sharing has been fostered by Turps Banana and it is in this spirit that we initiated this platform.
Please follow us on instagram @blinkandyoullmissitart

AMP Gallery, Peckham Part I The Gathering
4-6 June

For our inaugral show we invited artists Nicky Hirst, Catherine Letts, R&F Mo and Adia Wahid to show with us. Seen here in my studio are the pieces that I submitted for the show, Rolling Fog - 2021 - Mixed media on paper, 150 x 175cm together with Wood Head. After the show Rolling Fog is heading for a new home.

In March I was invited to submit a 10 x 15 cm collage for the virtual exhibition which accompanied the Slade's Colour and Poetry Symposium.

Kora (left), collage on cardboard, 15 x 10cm.

The exhibition is still available online
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/events/exhibitions/colour-collage-poetry

Autumn/Winter 2020/2021

What a year 2020 was, shows and plans cancelled but I have attempting to paint my way through it, very grateful for good health and my family. 2021 brings Art for Relief @artforrelief_ is raising money for the charity @softpowereducation on 5th March. Soft power education is a British registered charity supporting two pre-schools for 180 of the most vulnerable children living in Buwenda and Kyabirwa villages in Uganda. Through teaching the children social skills, how to behave in a learning environment and basic English language, they aim to give them the key to higher education and more successful futures. Sadly, due to Covid 19 it has put out an emergency appeal for donations as the pandemic has had a huge impact on their resources. The art sale aims to connect socially conscious art collectors and a mixture of emerging and established contemporary artists, selling work online in the form of prints and originals. The project is conceived and organised by the artist Marie Hilgers. I will be donating 2 orginal works. Thank you Marie, for the invitation to support the project.

I am delighted that one of my paired paintings, Pink Moon was selected by David Remfry RA for the ingDiscerning Eye 2020 exhibition. To see the show which is virtual this year go to https://www.ingdeexhibition.org/david-remfry In making his selection David Remfry wrote "My default position when selecting is that of wanting to include and therefore encourage fellow artists. It is pleasing to see a growing diversity in the representations. Ultimately, I need to see a quality in the work, a spark, something difficult to define. Often paintings skillfully executed and admirable in their ways don’t have that element. The message I would end with is that there couldn’t be a better time to be enjoying art, making it, admiring it, and who knows, buying something of it."

In November I returned to the Turps Off-site Painting Programme for a third year and this year my mentor is Joanna Kirk, which I am very excited about. Over the past two years I have been fortunate to have been mentored by the artists Geraldine Swayne, Marcus Harvey, Sarah Pickstone, Phil Allen, Benjamin Senior and had my work reviewed in crits by Virginia Verran and Ansul Krut.

Towards the end of the year, my A6 monoprint and watercolour entitled 2020 was selected by Artists Responding To for inclusion in their publication, The Postcard Project featuring 200 artists reflecting and responding to events in 2020. The publication (A4 landscape, 144 pages with 200 illustrations) is available for sale for £17.99 on their website www.artistsrespondingto.co.uk . My image reflected on the tragic situation during the pandemic in care homes, the loneliness of residents unable to see their families and the enduring work of the carers who at times have had to work without the proper PPE.

The RollOut, is a new painting zine edited and produced by Turps painter Kofi Boamah, @boamahkofi101, featuring a bunch of painters, also published at the end of 2020. Front cover image, painting by Catherine Lette, @catherineletteart. The zine is £15.00 available @ https://issuu.com/rolloutrollout/docs/therollout A good project to have been involved with, next edition is to feature drawing. Looking forward to that.

It was very gratifying earlier in the year to have reached the long list for the John Moores Painting Prize, sadly my painting Heartsease (on my Home page) didn't make it onto the short list - looking forward to trying again next time.

Please remember, you can see postings of recent projects on my instagram account @minangel_

Summer 2020
For the past few months during Lockdown I have returned to working on cardboard and really enjoying the freedom that this disposal and ubiquitous material offers me. I have put a few new works up on the 2020 painting page.

I am thrilled that I have reached the second stage of the John Moores Painting Prize with my painting Heartsease, currently featured on my Home page. The paintings are all due to arrive in Liverpool at the end of September when the judges will be making their final selection and the show will be in February 2021.

Spring 2020
I wish you all well in these strange and challenging Corona Virus times.

Please look out for works that I am offering as part of the Artists Support Pledge via Instagram and DM me if you are interested in purchasing any. Works are £200 and under and I pledge to buy another work from another artist in the scheme when I reach £1,000 worth of sales. This is a brilliant scheme devised and run by the artist Matthew Burrows. Check out #Artistssupportpledge on instgram minangel_

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. T

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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