Angela Edwards

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Artists Statement… Angela Edwards is a contemporary painter who strives to make sense of the digital age and mass media imagery. Her work combines digital images and oil paint or charcoal. The blurring in her work is used to express the quick pace at which we view digital images. Often featuring figures in a space her focus is not concerned with the specificity of who is being featured and more to do with the feeling of surfing the web. She will often start with a dark background symbolising the blank digital screen, she then enables the paint to create a highlighted tonal image which slowly comes into focus. The digital era has meant that we are bombarded by images 24 hours a day and because of this we become de-sensitised and removed from reality. By translating images from the screen into the ancient medium of oil paint Angela hopes to bring new weight and permanence to them, creating and capturing a moment that would otherwise be lost. The common thread throughout Angela’s work is that of Home, be it her home, commuters on their way home or the recent mass movement of people and refugees searching for a new home. Although painting is at the forefront of what Angela does, photography plays a large role in her process and she will combine and re-photograph images grabbed from the screen or just freeze framing a subject that has moved her to paint. Like most artists her practice is constantly evolving and changing, this helps to keep the work contemporary and fresh.

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Artists Statement…

Angela Edwards is a contemporary painter who strives to make sense of the digital age and mass media imagery. Her work combines digital images and oil paint or charcoal.

The blurring in her work is used to express the quick pace at which we view digital images. Often featuring figures in a space her focus is not concerned with the specificity of who is being featured and more to do with the feeling of surfing the web. She will often start with a dark background symbolising the blank digital screen, she then enables the paint to create a highlighted tonal image which slowly comes into focus.
The digital era has meant that we are bombarded by images 24 hours a day and because of this we become de-sensitised and removed from reality. By translating images from the screen into the ancient medium of oil paint Angela hopes to bring new weight and permanence to them, creating and capturing a moment that would otherwise be lost.

The common thread throughout Angela’s work is that of Home, be it her home, commuters on their way home or the recent mass movement of people and refugees searching for a new home.

Although painting is at the forefront of what Angela does, photography plays a large role in her process and she will combine and re-photograph images grabbed from the screen or just freeze framing a subject that has moved her to paint.
Like most artists her practice is constantly evolving and changing, this helps to keep the work contemporary and fresh.

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“Angela Edwards's Artworks”

Waiting at the Gate

USD 3,850.00 Year.2024 w113.00 x h70.00 x d4.00 cm

Walk in the Park

USD 3,180.00 Year.2024 w60.00 x h97.00 x d4.00 cm

Endless Day

USD 3,850.00 Year.2024 w113.00 x h70.00 x d4.00 cm

Medium

#Painting

Price Range

USD $3,180 ~ $3,850

Biography

Angela Edwards
Angela is a contemporary painter who graduated in 2014 with a first class (hons) degree in fine art painting and now work from her studio gallery @Town Quay Studios, 6 Town Quay, Shoreham-by-sea, West Sussex. As well as painting in oil, Angela also works in charcoal on fabriano paper. Her work is held in collections internationally.
Exhibitions

Free-Range Exhibition Old Truman Brewery Brick Lane July 2014
Islington Contemporary Art and Design Fair Islington Nov 2014
Candida Stevens Fine Art Gallery, Chichester (as part of a touring charity auction show) Feb 2016
The Towner Gallery,Eastbourne(as part of a touring Charity exhibition)April 2016
Kellie Miller Arts Gallery. Market St , Brighton. Showcase exhibition July 2017.
Gallery 57, Arundel. Part of a group show. Nov- Dec 2017
Hick Gallery, Wimbledon, group show Feb 2018
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with the Hicks gallery, Wimbledon March 2018
The Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, the Hicks Gallery, Wimbledon. May 2018
The old timber gallery, showing a selection of charcoal drawings. 2022
Group show, Singulart gallery, Berlin, Oct 2022
The Grange gallery, group drawing exhibition 2023
Sussex contemporary exhibition i360 Brighton 2023
Competitions…
Shortlisted for Saatchi online ‘Places and Spaces’ Showdown 2012
Drawing selected to exhibit in the Derwent Art Prize 2020
Two paintings selected for the ING Discerning Eye exhibition 2020
Drawing longlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021
Shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer exhibition 2022
Selected for the Sussex Contemporary 2023

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