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Details
- Date
- 2005
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- fiberglass, synthetic polymer paint
- Edition
- 2/3 + 1 AP
- Dimensions
- 95.0 x 146.5 x 91.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2014
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 116.2014
- Copyright
- © James Angus, Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
- Artist information
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James Angus
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About
James Angus is a sculptor who distorts scale, volume and form in a practice that addresses the themes, materials, and processes of architecture, design, and nature. Angus' 'Mountains, valleys, caves' 2005 is an expansion upon the artist's sculptural exploration of the relationship between abstraction and figuration. The wave and trough forms are at once artificial and organic, recalling mathematical graphs as well as landscape.
'Mountains valleys, caves' 2005 was designed by the artist on a computer using engineering software mouldCAM, and is based upon principles of monocoque, in which an object's surface absorbs the weight and stress of its structure. The inverted underside contrasted with the protruding exterior exploits negative and positive space.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
James Angus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 13 Sep 2006–26 Nov 2006
James Angus, Institute of Modern Art, Fortitude Valley, 02 Jun 2007–28 Jul 2007
James Angus, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 22 Sep 2007–06 Nov 2007
James Angus, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 24 Nov 2007–02 Mar 2008
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Christopher Chapman, Portrait, 'Abstraction and figuration', pg. 16-19, Canberra, Summer 2009, 17, 18 (colour illus.). not AGNSW version
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Andrew Frost, Australian art collector, 'Roslyn Oxley and her collections', pg. 122-123, Sydney, Apr 2006-Jun 2006, 123 (colour illus.). not AGNSW version
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Rachel Kent, James Angus, 'Shape shifter: the art of James Angus', pg. 7-70, 2006, 11, 56 (colour illus.), 57, 58-59 (colour illus.), 78.
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Bronwyn Watson, Weekend Australian, 'Public works', pg. 13, Sydney, 07 May 2011, 13. not AGNSW version
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