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At eighteen Angela Eames attended Johannesburg School of Art in South Africa where she undertook her first Foundation course in Art and Design. On completion she returned to England to attend Farnham School of Art on a second Foundation course. From 1971 thro’ to 1974 she studied Fine Art Painting at Bath Academy of Art in Corsham gaining a place to study Fine Art/Experimental place at the Slade School, London in 1974. Her work as both artist and teacher instigated a return to study in 1991 to complete a Masters in Computing in Art and Design at Middlesex University under the tutelage of John Lansdowne. As an artist whose practice has continuously involved the exploration of drawing in direct relation to technology, she received a Doctorate in Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art and the University of Surrey in 2000.
She produces both series and independent works and has exhibited continuously both nationally and abroad. The images on this website show her commitment to various themes that have run throughout a working life of some forty five years. She lives in East Sussex and continues to practice as an artist/drawer.
wHOLE #1, Giclée print, 15" x 15", 2018
CONSEQUENCE - Projected video work, 20 mins, continuous loop, 2018
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CONSEQUENCE - Projected video work, 20 mins, continuous loop, 2018
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TIME...
"Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.
(Jeanette Winterson)
AS THE LIGHTS DIM
TIME-PIECE
BEST BEFORE
SHELF-LIFE
GLITTERBUG
DON'T LET GO
Recent video works (INFINIVIDS) explore the ambivalent nature of our experience of reality. They allow the viewer to reflect on what is being seen in the moment. Moving image, without an explicit narrative, as ‘loop’. The ‘loop’ is infinite, enabling one to come and go, to look and leave, to encounter sameness and difference. Essentially the pieces are about looking and giving the time to look. The often barely perceptible motion within the videos serves to highlight our sense of urgency to move on to the next without really acknowledging what we have just witnessed and the fact that they are in the main, silent movies contributes to a contemplative space. The infinivids exist in a timeframe but play forever! They are drawings in time, drawings in the present continuous, drawings which can be viewed in entirety or not…
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