Aaron Angell
BIOGRAPHY
Aaron Angell (b.1987, London), graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art (2011). He lives and works out of London, United Kingdom. Angell has exhibited internationally, with recent solo presentations including: Not All on Show, Ilenia, London (2025); Hornet, Hailstone, Crab Eye, Aerodrome…, Holburne Museum, Bath (2022); Shoes, Rob Tufnell, Cologne (2018); Heat-Haze Theatre, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg (2018); Early Monodies, Rodeo, London (2018); Plumb Poltergeist, Art Exchange, Essex (2018); Aaron Angell, Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow, Glasgow (2017); Why I built the Cloaca Maxima, Rob Tufnell, Cologne (2017); The Death of Robin Hood, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow (2016); Variations on the Chaldon Doom, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne (2016); Grotwork, Studio Voltaire, London (2015); Woman Expecting Triplets Returning Home from the Cinema, SWG3, Glasgow (2013); Raga for Fishwife, World Class Boxing, Miami (2013); Bumpkin, Rob Tufnell, London (2012); Put John Barleycorn in the old brown jug, Croy Nielsen, Berlin (2012); The Devil’s Arse, SPACE, London (2011); The year of the left-hand, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (2011). Recent group shows include: Brink, Herald St, London (2025); Natura Morta, Ilenia, London (2024); Dispatches, Galerie Sans titre, Paris (2024); Strange Clay, Hayward Gallery, London (2022); Artifices Instabiles, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco (2020); The land we live in, the land we left behind, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (2018); That continuous thing: artists and the ceramic studio: 1920–Today, Tate St Ives, Cornwall (2017); The British Art Show 8, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds (2016); Potteries Thinkbelt, Rob Tufnell, London (2015); Die Marmory Show, Deborah Schamoni, Munich (2014); ‘Pool’, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2014); As a merman I should turn to be, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (2014); A History of Inspiration, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013); Hides on All Sides, Torrance Shipman Gallery, Brooklyn (2013).
SELECTED WORKS
Reduced stoneware with feldspathic and hagi sand inclusions, copper saturate glaze, pine needle ash, post-firing acid soak
13 x 21 1/4 x 15 3/8 in