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Angela Edmonds - Mixed Media Artist (Oxhey)

Contact Angela Edmonds

email: angart@edmonds102.fsnet.co.uk

Web pages: www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=229

Artist's statement:
Angela Edmonds completed a BA Hons in Fine Art in 1990 and received a MA from Middlesex University in 1997. Her career spans the divide between figurative painting and conceptual objects based sculpture.

Her earlier works were mainly large expressive figurative drawings and these have been widely exhibited from The Royal Academy London, to abroad in Japan, Germany and the USA.

For the past ten years Angela Edmonds has made object based assemblages and related photography. In these works everyday domestic objects are combined in unconventional ways to creat new meanings with a surreal element of humour. These works have been exhibited in venues including Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and The Ferens Gallery, Hull.

Awards:
2009 - Disability Arts Competition, Holton Lee, Dorset, Prizewinner.
2000 - We Are History Makers, Grange Museum, London, Prizewinner;
1996 - Bursary, Paul Hamlyn Foundation;
1992 - Drawings For All, Gainsborough's House Touring Biennial 1st Prize;
1989 - The Hertfordshire Open Touring Exhibition, 1st Prize;
1989 - The Hunting Group Art Prizes. National Touring Exhibition.

Commissions:
2000 - Curator of exhibition 'Landmarks' for Cyber Axis, an interactive 3rd virtual gallery, Millennium Commission Lottery Project.
1989/92 - Drawings on site during the development of The Harlequin Centre, Watford for Capital Shopping Centres Plc.

Exhibitions:
2005 - 'Parallel Visions', Wilmington, USA & touring;
2005 - 'Gorgeously Repulsive', Essex University;
2004 - '10 Years Retrospective Exhibition', Solo Exhibition at The Attenborough Centre, University of Leicester;
2003 - 'Containment', The Place, Letchworth;
2002 - 'One Heart One World', London, Japan, USA;

Qualifications:
Watford College of Art - Foundation;
University of Hertfordshire - BA (Hons) Fine Art;
Middlesex University - MA History and Theory of Visual Culture.

Art forms used are photography, mixed media drawing, object based assemblage, artists books, critical writing, painting.