James Angus, artist and art
Born 1970, Birth Perth, Australia.
The artist lives and works in Sydney and New York.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Installation art, Sculpture Objects, Sydney Biennale,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
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Extracts from an article entitled "Twisted reality", by Ara Jansen, reviewing an exhibition by sculptor James Angus at the Art Gallery of WA until 2 March 2008.
Bicycles, 2008
Ordinary objects such as a teapot, soccer or basket ball are literally turned inside out, dropped from a great height or expanded to massive scale. Modernist skyscrapers and neo-Gothic castles are inverted or twisted, divided and then realigned in new geometric permutations…
Often derived from experimentation with the geometric coordinates of form, James Angus’s sculptures distort and invert familiar objects – from the natural world to architecture and engineering – revealing new structures and perspectives…
