Aaron Angell

Aaron Angell, born in Kent (UK) in 1987, works primarily with ceramics, producing sculptural tableaux referencing hobbyist cultures, naturalistic forms, and the underground hand-built ceramics of Britain from the 1970s and '80s. Although often appearing deliberately amateurish, Angell utilises a highly skilled production process for his sculptures, making use of glazing techniques that are both antique and state-of-the-art. Angell is founder of the Troy Town Art Pottery in London, a radical and psychedelic ceramic workshop for artists.

Solo exhibitions
2016 Glasgow international, Kelvingrove museum, Glasgow (UK). 2015 Grotwork, Studio Voltaire, London. 2013 Woman expecting triplets returning home from the cinema, with Jack Bilbo, SWG3, Glasgow (UK). 2012 Raga for Fishwife, World Class Boxing, Miami (US). Bumpkin, Rob Tufnell, London. Put John Barleycorn in the old brown jug, Croy Nielsen, Berlin. 2011 The Devil's Arse, SPACE, London. The year of the left-hand/Folkal Point, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (UK).

Group exhibitions
2014 Pool: Kunst aus London, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (DE). You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, Hollybush Gardens, London. 2013 British British Polish Polish: Art from Europe's edges in the long 1990s and today, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. A History of Inspiration, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. V22 Collection Show, V22, London. Apparatus Criticus, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (DE). Hides On All Sides, Torrance Winter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US). Big Rock Candy Mountain, MOT International (MOT projects), London.

Publications
Tom Morton, “Focus interview: Aaron Angell”, in: frieze, no. 156, June 2013.
Gean Moreno, Aaron Angell: Raga for Fishwife, exhibition essay, http://www.worldclassboxing.org/exhibit_raga-for-fishwife.php, November 2012.
Adnan Yildiz, “Nearly abstract”, interview with Aaron Angell, in: Mousse Magazine, no. 32, February 2012, pp 42–44.

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