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 Mexican Spray Can painting is inspired by Mexican Day Of The Dead masks. In ancient times, skulls were used to honor the dead. In the past, participants and dancers used masks to scare the dead away at the end of the festivities.
 
But in modern-day celebrations, people paint their faces to look like skulls, decorating it to represent a deceased loved one or an expression of themselves.
 
BIOGRAPHY
Scottish artist Angela Thouless’ passion for urban art was sparked during her first trip to Amsterdam in 2012.
 
In Spuistraat, a neighborhood 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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