James Angus (born 1970) is an

Australian Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Au ...

artist known for 'his engaging and rigorously crafted sculptures'.

Biography

James Angus was born in

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

in 1970. Angus holds a degree in Fine Arts from

Curtin University of Technology Curtin University, formerly known as Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, ...

and a Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture) from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

School of Art. He has also lectured at UTS.

Selected grants and awards

Angus has been honoured with a number of prestigious awards across his career. These include Fulbright Postgraduate Award, 1996;

Travelling Fellowship, 1998; Australia Council Professional Development Grant, 1998 and 2001; Studio residency, Cite des Arts, Paris, 2003; Short listed for National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, 2005; Basil Sellers Art Prize, Melbourne; 2008 and Australia Council Fellowship, 2009.

Exhibitions

He has exhibited widely at institutions such as the

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), located on George Street in Sydney's The Rocks neighbourhood, is solely dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting, and collecting contemporary art, from across Australia and around the world. It is ...

;

Art Gallery of Western Australia The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) is a public art gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth. It is located near the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia and is supported and managed by the ...

, Perth;

Art Gallery of South Australia The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), established as the National Gallery of South Australia in 1881, is located in Adelaide. It is the most significant visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of ...

, Adelaide; Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Monash University Art Gallery, Melbourne;

National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum. The NGV houses an encyclopedic art collection across two ...

, Melbourne; Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin;

Art Gallery of New South Wales The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most importa ...

, Sydney;

National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in th ...

, Canberra; Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France; and

Heide Museum of Modern Art The Heide Museum of Modern Art, also known as Heide, is an art museum in Bulleen, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1981, the museum houses modern and contemporary art across three distinct exhibition buildings and is set ...

, Melbourne.

Public collections

Angus' works are included in numerous public and private collections. These include: *

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary ...

, Canberra *

, Perth *

, Adelaide *

Museum of Old and New Art The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is an art museum located within the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest privately funded museum in the Southern Hemisphere. MONA houses ancient, mode ...

, Hobart * Monash University Gallery, Monash * Austcorp, Sydney * Murdoch University Art Collection, Perth * Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland * Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle

Public commissions

Angus' prominent public commissions have included; * ''Day in Day Out'',

1 Bligh Street 1 Bligh Street is a skyscraper in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The modern style office building is located in the Sydney central business district overlooking Circular Quay, the Sydney Harbour and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Design ...

, Sydney, 2011 * ''Grow Your Own'', Forrest Place, Perth, 2010 (The single largest art commission ever undertaken in

) * Lycee Ferdinand Buisson, Voiron, France, 2009 * ''Geo Face Distributor'', National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2009 * ''Ellipsoidal Freeway Sculpture'', Eastlink Freeway, Connect East, Melbourne, 2008 * ''Wave Machine'', Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney, 2005"James Angus – Wave Machine, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney, 2005 – Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery"
''roslynoxley9.com.au''. * Public Art Fund, New York, 1999

References

External links

JamesAngus.net

, "James Angus", (Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2006) * www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/a-revolt-in-art-20110114-19rdf.html *James Angus a
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Monday, 30 August 2004 * Crone, Bridget, "Face Up: Contemporary Australian Art in Berlin," Art & Australia, vol. 41, no. 3, Autumn 2004, p. 386, 387 * Grayson, Richard, "The Downside up Show," Broadsheet, vol. 32, no. 4, 2/2003 – 12/2004 * Higson, Rosalie, "Truckload of meanings squeezed for a tease," The Australian, 6 August 2004 * Hill, Peter, "Keep on Truckin’," Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), 14 – 15 August 2004, p. 8 – 9 * Hill, Peter, "Join the Red Dots," Spectrum, 25–26 Sept 2004, p. 8 * Holubizky, Ihor, Truck Corridor, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004 * Low, Lenny Ann, "Sculptor becomes truckie in the name of art," Sydney Morning Herald, 6 August 2004 * Wahjudi, Claudia, "Face up – Xeitgenösshiche Kunst aus Australien," Austellungen, Kunstforum International, Bd. 168, 1 February 2004 * Angus, James, "On making Manta Ray," Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia, exhibition catalogue, Museum for the Present, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2003, p. 59 * Carsten Probst, "Face Up – Zeitgenössiche australische Kunst im Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin," DeutschlandFunk – ‘Kultur heute’, 2 October 2003 * Angus, James, "Manta Ray: In search of perfect ambiguity," Art & Australia, 40th Anniversary Issue, Winter, vol. 40, no. 4, 2003, p. 580, 581 * Apthorp, Shirley, "Urban work smashes cliches: Berlin is set to experience the cutting edge of Australian art," The Australian, Tuesday, 30 September 2003, p. 15 * B.R. "Berlin: Opération séduction, L’oeil, Dezember 2003 * Berlino, A, "Face Up. L’arte australiana va forte," Arte, December 2003 * Boriani, Glenda "artsaustralia berlin 03," tema celeste, (1), No.100, November/December 2003 * Dick, T, "Right wavelength keeps career going upwards," Sydney Morning Herald (Metropolitan), Friday, 8 August 2003, p. 12 * Duncan, Jenepher and Linda Michael, Monash University and Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, 2003, p. 45 – 51 * Grayson, Richard, "James Angus," Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia, exhibition catalogue, Museum for the Present, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2003, p. 60, 61 * Green, Stephanie, "Review: Gulliver’s Travels, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts," Object, no. 43, 2003, p. 89 * Meagher, Caroline, "Bridging the Gap," State of the Arts, October – December 2003 * Rees, Simon, "Still Life: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney," Flash Art, vol. 36 no. 233, November –December 2003, p. 51 * "Face Up: Contemporary Australian Art," review, Flash Art, October 2003, vol. 36, no. 232, p. 46 * Shineberg, Susan, "Triumph in the teeth of adversity," The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 October 2003 * Shineberg, Susan, "In the jaws of Berlin’s Great Whites, a taste of Australia," The Age, Saturday, 4 October 2003, p. 9 (News) * Von Thomas Joerdens, "Poppig und gefährlich" Oranienburger Generalanzeiger, 7 October 2003

* McKenzie, Dr. Janet, "FACE UP," Studio International, UK, 4 December 2003 * Palmer, D. "A Surrealist Party Tape", Critical Interventions – Biennale of Sydney 2002, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney * Hynes, V and Pryor L. "James Angus – 2002 Biennale of Sydney" Sydney Morning Herald feature, May 2002 * Delaney, Max, "Skeletons in the closet: from the monument to the model – sculpture in the Collection," Monash University {{DEFAULTSORT:Angus, James 21st-century Australian sculptors Living people 1970 births Artists from Perth, Western Australia Curtin University alumni