ANGELAFOX Cheshire, United Kingdom
I have been working as a contemporary artist for approximately four years. My work is mostly autobiographical, a cathartic process of deep reflection, of how to process living with a long term illness. Issues and feelings that arise and how best to translate these through my art.
Autobiographical work that can be at times deeply personal and challenging for both myself and the viewer. Working as a contemporary artist since 2018, although in the past I have been a practicing artist for many years producing work inspired by architecture. I was diagnosed with stage 3 metastatic breast cancer in 2015. I began producing work which was and still is mainly fueled by anger. frustration , despair although it must be stressed that it is not all negative. I feel it is my duty as an artist to try and communicate what it is like to live with a long term illness. It has to be remembered that it is my own personal story, portraying issues that I personal to the self, if they happen to resonate with the other then this is another positive result. I am trying to educate others. I am particularly interested in the language used around illness, reading Susan Sontag, Illness as a metaphor really inspired me to think about this in more detail, I am also interested by the misuse of language by medical practitioners. I use many different techniques and mixed media choosing which is the best way of describing and portraying an idea, for example watercolour, machine embroidery and print making. Since 2018 I have had my work in galleries around the UK including The Tate Modern and have had work published in various magazines/zines in the UK and Germany.
Artwork
Cause and Effect, Transfer Print and Collage, 2020
My Guardian Angel Takes a Sickie, Dry point etching, 2020
GEORGE, Cyanotype, 2020
Reconstruct, 2020
Caress 1 and 2, Transfer Print and Collage, 2019
Angie's Baps, Prescription bag with Letraset, 2019
Nosebleed series, Mixed Media and dry point etchings on coffin plates., 2019
Objectification/Sticks and Stones, Letraset and prescription bag on canvas, 2019
Projects and exhibitions
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Ossuary01/05/2022 — 31/05/2022 Ossuary Fronteer Gallery Basement Space | May 2022 An Ossuary is defined as a space or container in which the bones of the dead are kept. This exhibition features the work of over 50 UK artists, each working with skulls and bones as the subject matter. |
The Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield | Details |
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Queer Death Society26/04/2022 — 26/05/2022 Queer Death Society. A zine for queering assumptions about death, dying & mourning. We do art, essays, poems, interviews, obituaries & trash. |
Online, N/A | Details |
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HOME Open Exhibition24/01/2022 — 27/03/2022 Open Exhibition. HOME’s Gallery walls are filled with work from 400+ Greater Manchester residents, selected by a panel consisting of art experts and community representatives |
HOME, Manchester | Details |
LUMP IT01/06/2021 — 30/06/2021 An online exhibition concerned with lumps. I gave my personal take on lumps and what lumps means to me. |
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STILL25/05/2021 — 25/06/2021 Still will open online at 7pm on Tuesday May 25th via the Organ magazine website at www.organthing.com. We will once again be personally inviting the majority of the artists, but as always the flow of artistic new blood is very important. There is an open call aspect, and we would like to have around a dozen artists we don’t actually know... [Read more] |
Online/Instagram, London | Details |
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Text Me When You Get Home04/04/2021 — 27/06/2022 “Following the disappearance of 33-year-old, Sarah Everard, and the response to it - has led to many people sharing stories of fear about women’s safety and the fear of walking alone, being out in public and living in society”. |
Online, N/A | Details |
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HAUS-A-REST01/03/2021 — 31/03/2021 It is celebrated every March to coincide with International Women's Day on March 8. ... and commemorates the history of women's impact in the world and to raise awareness of issues women are facing worldwide, International Women's Day was established to commemorate the movement for women's rights. |
Online/ Instagram | Details |
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The Cancer Hive magazine, issue 4 Sex,Gender and Body Image05/01/2020 — 27/06/2022 Explore narratives and artwork that focus on how cancer can affected body image, what impact cancer can have on people's sexuality and sex lives, and ... |
online and a published magazine | Details |
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Humanising Medicine/Discoveries and Secrets14/11/2019 — 23/11/2019 The exhibition featured 140 artworks that represented experiences of health and/or illness on one day of someone's life or caring for the health of others. The evening included a series of short talks by a range of patients and professionals who shared their experiences of health and illness. Being Human is the UK's national festival that... [Read more] |
Bart's Pathology Museum, London | Details |
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Food And Losers21/10/2019 — 27/06/2022 FOOD& LOSERS Food& is a Berlin based biannual art publication that explores unusual encounters with food. Issue 5 is titled Food& Losers – Inbetween consuming and not winning. Previous titles were &Sports, &Aliens, &Nuclear War, and &Love. The magazine is an experiment; a reflection on the relation and use of one of our most basic needs;... [Read more] |
Zine Issue. 5, N/A | Details |
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Bloomsbury Festival Women's Art Showcase11/10/2019 — 20/10/2019 A festival of women's art. A variety of events. |
FiLiA Art 100/Tammam Atelier, London | Details |
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LIMBO04/05/2019 — 02/06/2019 Limbo isn’t just the imaginary place or state of all holy souls after death, but a real condition. The artists in the exhibition present limbo spaces that have risen due to Brexit, austerity, socio-economic insecurity, racism and xenophobia. They explore on a personal and national level what it is to be in-between and to live in uncertainty. |
Socially Engaged Art Salon, Brighton | Details |
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MICRO18/04/2019 — 11/05/2019 A group exhibition, artists showing smaller works. |
AIR Gallery, Altrincham | Details |
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Positive Emotions06/04/2019 — 27/10/2019 A show that provides and hopes to spread positivity. |
Kunsthuis Gallery, Crayke | Details |
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When Will You Learn There Isn't A Word For Everything07/12/2018 — 09/12/2018 A collection of artists and writers responding to the theme. How Language Fails Us? |
Nunn's Yard Gallery, Norwich | Details |
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Flourishing Lives/Shifting self Identities26/04/1991 — 28/04/1991 Stories about the fight for cultural acceptance and equal rights, the celebration of identities and communities . Through dance, discussion, physical theatre, workshops and artwork. My piece had been in an exhibition in Cambridge University and was chosen by The FruitFly Collective to be part of the Flourishing Lives exhibition, |
Tate Modern, London | Details |
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It's My Life29/01/0022 — 28/02/2022 A small gallery packing a huge punch in the world of curated exhibitions. The small scale work in the dolls house is as carefully and sensitively curated by Amy Oliver. |
Online/Instagram, N/A | Details |
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Breast Cancer Arts Project ,The Pink Week Breast Cancer Exhibition03/02/0019 — 24/02/0019 A group exhibition showing work produced by people who are living with breast cancer. The Breast Cancer Arts Project gave myself and others the confidence to describe, discuss what it is like to live with the disease. |
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge | Details |