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At eighteen Angela Eames attended Johannesburg School of Art in South Africa where she undertook her first Foundation course in Art and Design. On completion she returned to England to attend Farnham School of Art on a second Foundation course. From 1971 thro’ to 1974 she studied Fine Art Painting at Bath Academy of Art in Corsham gaining a place to study Fine Art/Experimental place at the Slade School, London in 1974. Her work as both artist and teacher instigated a return to study in 1991 to complete a Masters in Computing in Art and Design at Middlesex University under the tutelage of John Lansdowne. As an artist whose practice has continuously involved the exploration of drawing in direct relation to technology, she received a Doctorate in Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art and the University of Surrey in 2000.
She produces both series and independent works and has exhibited continuously both nationally and abroad. The images on this website show her commitment to various themes that have run throughout a working life of some forty five years. She lives in East Sussex and continues to practice as an artist/drawer.
wHOLE #1, Giclée print, 15" x 15", 2018
CONSEQUENCE - Projected video work, 20 mins, continuous loop, 2018
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CONSEQUENCE - Projected video work, 20 mins, continuous loop, 2018
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FIRES OVER AFRICA...
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A photograph conveys a split second in time, space and light. It is only momentary. Once taken, that moment has gone. A painted moment is still a moment of sorts but one conjured by the painter. What survives of the moment is the painting - a finite piece of evidence. This series of drawings/prints/maps, as tangible artefacts, offer a snapshot in time wherein the presence of seemingly familiar marks, photographic and hand drawn, suggest that we take a second look. The mapped terrain assumes an alternative persona teetering somewhere between the recognisable and the painterly. Original source material has been grabbed from the online NASA Earth Observatory and adapted. Size, scale and appearance of the original photographs are maintained but the topography is enhanced by texture mapping a modulated polygonal surface in three dimensional computing space. Consequently, contour and relief are accentuated when the final images are rendered. The content of these works draws attention to the increased number of agricultural and wild fires occurring, across parts of Africa. On the original photographs the fires are determined as red pixilated areas. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captures true colour images where red indicates hotspots associated with high surface temperatures. Technological advancement within photography has democratised and significantly augmented the accuracy and availability of mapped information - information that can be acted upon.
In their essence maps tell stories - they can certainly show us where we are and they might be able to tell us where to go.
In a time of collective concern for future human existence on planet Earth, I decided to present this series of images as conventional Tyvec-printed fold-up maps (where the portability and reassurance of a helpful guide might sneakily alert us to the serious implications of hitherto conventional agricultural practices) and as an edition of Fine Art Giclée prints on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper.
FIRES OVER AFRICA... MAPS
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Fold up map. 35" x 39"
Fold up map. 35" x 39"
Fold up map. 35" x 39"
Fold up map. 35" x 39"
A series of 4 prints: collectively titled FIRES OVER AFRICA. The maps come in two formats as print on demand:
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Conventional fold-up, travel versions, printed/assembled on Photo Tyvec paper.
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Giclée Fine Art archival prints on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper. (unframed)
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FIRES OVER AFRICA (Western) Map#1
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FIRES OVER AFRICA (Northern) Map#2
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FIRES OVER AFRICA (Central) Map#3
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FIRES OVER AFRICA (Eastern) Map#4
Send an email for details of pricing framed or unframed if you are interested in purchasing...
Archival print 15" x 15"
Archival print 15" x 15"
Archival print 15" x 15"
Archival print 15" x 15"
"People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they’re standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don’t look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down, with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn’t a time. It’s a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter."
(Terry Pratchett)
Archival print 35" x 39"
Archival print 35" x 39"
Archival print 35" x 39"
Archival print 35" x 39"