Angela Findlay

My current works show everyday scenarios or incidental domestic situations, familiar but usually deemed unworthy of attention. Many of my paintings reflect the idea that buildings and objects bear witness to, reveal, and hold the memory of human stories.

My process begins with the arrangement of still lives made up of ordinary found objects, which together suggest a story, something that happened, though the details of the story are left to the imagination of the observer. I then create a photographic collage of printed images on the canvas, which is both obliterated and gradually recovered with oil paint and a palette knife. The hiding and revealing of layers is reminiscent of the archaeologist’s trowel uncovering fragile traces of long forgotten personal scenarios.

My work has been shown and sold extensively in the UK and abroad. I also take commissions to produce paintings of personal interiors or scenarios, or still lives made up of objects that have meaning for the client.

BA (Hons) Fine Art

solo shows, installations and projects

2013 Fragments of time, McAllister Fine Art,
2012 Rock drop, Laubach, Germany
2011 Filling the cracks, Site 11, Stroud
2010 Let them eat cake, Cabot Circus, Bristol
2009 12 days and it’s over, The Vaults, Stroud
2008 Two Crosses, Eight Points, One Centre,
The Vaults, Stroud
2007 Around the Periphery to the Centre, Russell
Gallery, London
2005 Where Earth Meets Sky, Russell Gallery,
London

selected group exhibitions

2015 Summer Exhibition, Albion Gallery
2015 Claremont Antiques and Modern Art,
2014 Launch Exhibition, Albion Gallery
2012 - 13 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England
Academy, Bristol
2004 - 15 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea,
2012 - 13 Winter Group Exhibition, McAllister Thomas
Fine Art
2012 Natur - sanft und gewaltig, Kunst und
Kulturforum, Laubach, Germany
2012 Chesea Art Fair, London
2011 Art London, Josie Eastwood Fine Art, London
2011 Summer E...