ELLEN ANGUS
Ellen Angus (UK) began her studies at Chelsea College of Art (2013) where she began to work collaboratively with Ellie Bradford and Shali Lui under the guise of LEAK. In 2015 she began her MFA at Umeå Academy of Fine Art, upon graduation she was awarded the Kungl. Skytteanska Samfundet Prize and the Verklighten Prize. On March 29th 2019 she exhibited the solo exhibition ‘A Brexit/No I Mean a Break Up’ at Växjö Konsthall, Sweden , provoking the performance Lady in Red Crawls Through Parliament Square. During her time in Scandinavia, she travelled to the Arctic, (Abisko Scientific Research Centre) for the project ‘Meetings Between Art and Science’ with The Royal Academy of Art Stockholm. She was a founding member of the feminist collective Not So Popular (London) and she has previous experience working and performing with Monster Chetwynd (2016) and Reactor (2022.) Her work has been published in Let’s Start a Pussy Riot (Rough Trade, London.) In 2021 she was appointed to be a co-director of One Thoresby Street an artist studio and gallery in Nottingham. In 2022 she joined the cohort of School of the Damned.
Education
2022-2024 School of the Damned
2015-2017 MFA Fine Art Umea Academy of Fine Art, Sweden
2012-2013 (1 year) at Chelsea School of Art
2009 Morphologie & Anatomy at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Lecturing and directorship
2021 - Current, Co-Director of One Thoresby Street
2021 - Current, Assosciate Lecture, Art Theory, Provocations and Imaginations, Uni of Lincoln
2019 Guest Lecturer, Umea Academy of Fine Art
2019 Guest Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
2017-2020 Guest lecturer, Umea Konstskola
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Shows
2024 Sapphic Mercreatures and Apocolypses, PADA, Lisbon
2021 Cater 2 U, Forth, Nottingham, UK
2019 A Break up, No a Brexit, Vaxjo Konsthalle, Sweden
2018 Darling You Will Always Win, March, exhibition at Galleri Verklighten, Umeå- Sweden
2016 Single White Female –Konsthögskolans galleriet- Umeå -Sweden
2014 How To Become A Sea Creature, unisex toilets at s036, November- Berlin
Group Show
2024 Mud, Bricks, School of the Damed, Bristol
2024 To Move Without Friction, School of the Damed SET Woolich, London
2023 Sod's Law, Bermondsey Project Space, London
2023 It’s All Too Beautiful, performance/Reading, Nottingham Contemporary
2023 Between Different States, School of the Damed, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
2023 Lofty Peach Skies, performance at Frieze Project Space, School of the Damned, 2022 ‘Not Happy’ One Thoresby Street, Nottingham
2021 Vai Nascer, Ja Senti, PADA Residency Lisbon
2021 Dog Days, PADA Residency, Lisbon
2020 From Parasite to Monstrous Blob, performance, Forth, Nottingham
2017 Fools Gold, Bildmuseet Umeå- Sweden
2016 Mental Orgasm, Konsthogskolan Galleriet, Umeå- Sweden
2016 Room for Performance Umeå Bildmuseet–September- Sweden
2016 How to Become a Sea Creature, book launch at Bildmuseet market – Sweden
2016 Private Dancer, Funen Art Academy- part of Civic Imaginary, Denmark
2015 No Show at Nordanå Kulturområde, Skeleftea, November - Sweden
2015 LEAK- at Live Art Leeds (LAB) - April
2015 How To Become A Sea Creature Performance at Neu West, March - Berlin
2014 Leaky - Website piece - Folkestone Triennal, August- Kent
2013 Whats Your Fantasy? [PERFORMANCE SPACE] London
2013 Foolish (Leak) – A Final Show - – Chelsea School of Art- London
2013 Ooochie Wally (Leak) - Audio piece - Brunel Museum- London
2013 Under the Stairs (Leak) –- Chelsea School of Art- London
2013 SPLICE - The Morgue at Chelsea School of Art, London
Projects /Workshops
2022 Artist Statement writing Workshop, Spike Island
2021 The Art Of Becoming That Which One Is Not & That Which One Already Is, An Artist Statement Writing Workshop, Nottingham Contemporary
2019 Making Art that Itches, Nottingham Trent University
2017 Abisko Scientific Research Centre - ‘Meetings between art and science’ with The Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm and Umeå Academy of Fine Arts
2016 The Civic Imaginary (art in the public space) 3 week course, developing projects in Estonia, Denmark and Norway
Awards / scholarships
Developing Your Creative Practice - Arts Council England 2021
Time Space Money - A-N Bursary 2019/2020
Hegel and Axon bursary 2017
Kungl. Skytteanska Samfundet 2017
Verkligheten Prize 2017
Grosses treffen competition 2017
Press
2019 Daily Mail: Mystery Lady in Red spotted crawling outside houses of Parliament
2019 Metro, Mystery Woman in Red
2019 Left Lion, Nottingham
2018 Darling You Will Always Win Vasterbottens Kurien
2017 Skytteanska priser delades ut in Västerbottens-Kuriren, sida 14
2017 Inga ludditer- Kunstkritikk.no - Kritikk
2017 Med avsikter under ytan | Västerbottens-Kuriren
2017 Grosse Treffen
2014 IV: Body / Space - Not So Popular publication
2013 Pornography, Commercialism and Feminism by Jane Fayle for Kaltblut Magazine
2013 Let’s Start a Pussy Riot featured in book released by Rough Trade Records
2013 Studio Visit interview on Resonance FM radio station
2013 Creme De Co - JAWS Journal
2013 Arte TV (+7)
2013 Arte/Tracks/Kulture
