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Angela Thouless

(Scotland)

PAINTING

 

DETAILS

Acrylic on canvas
Size : 30 x 40 x 1.8cm
W30 cm x H40 cm  x 1.8 (W11.81 x H15.74 inches)

 

DESCRIPTION

The African Spray Can original painting is inspired by African tribal masks. In many African tribes, masks symbolize unseen, supernatural forces which are beneficial to communities. This could be anything from fertility to weather patterns. The wearer conceptually surrenders his human body when wearing the mask (and sometimes an accompanying costume), transforming into a spiritual being.

 

BIOGRAPHY

Scottish artist Angela Thouless’ passion for urban art was sparked during her first trip to Amsterdam in 2012.

 

In the neighborhood of Spuistraat, home to a community of creative types, she took countless pictures of decaying buildings and graffiti, traveling there almost every year to renew her repertoire.

 

What attracted her was the impromptu and transient nature of street art as well as its multiculturalism, as many artists would come from outside the country to make murals. Her series of spray can tribal mask paintings was inspired by a workshop Thouless led in her home town of Aberdeen, during which she painted on old spray cans.

 

The suite is an exotic and luxuriant array of tribal masks incorporating elements from African, Asian, and South American traditions. The masks are depicted on spray cans and surrounded by lush patterns of plants and animals.

 

The series has a distinct metropolitan feel and celebrates diversity through a message of unity: we are one species and one tribe. 

 

Thouless earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting and Master’s Degree and Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Design from Robert Gordon University’s Grays School Of Art in Aberdeen, Scotland. She exhibited widely in the UK as well as all over Europe and North America.

She is the owner of Tribe All, which designs t-shirt collections of tribal masks from all over the world.

 

As a designer, Thouless participated in the Aberdeen and Milan Fashion Weeks. Her work appeared in publications such as Elle Decor, Red Magazine, and House & Garden.

 

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AFRICAN SPRAY CAN

€800.00Price
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