A LOST SIREN’S CALL
ELLEN ANGUS
18TH APRIL - 11TH MAY
EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION
“Six months after the birth of my first child, I am emerging from the delirium of sleep deprivation—wild-eyed at 4 a.m., grasping at the sticky edges of something vast and obscure. My work unfolds at the intersection of queer ecology, feminist sci-fi, and the creeping sense that we are teetering on the brink of ecological collapse. I explore myth-making as an act of ecological resistance, drawing from the speculative legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler. I find myself submerged in the symbolism of water serpents—fluid, ancient, leaky and untamed—watching their transformation into the hyper-commercialised mermaid of the 21st century. My work lingers in the murky space between myth, commodification and utter ruin. Mothers ruin.’’
Ellen Angus
INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
OPENING NIGHT
OPENING NIGHT
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
About the Artist
Ellen Angus (Nottingham, 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, creating the performance Lady in Red Crawls Through Parliament Square which graced the Daily Mail. 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 for and performing with Monster Chetwynd (2016) Andy Holden (2023) and Reactor (2022.) Her work has been published in Let’s Start a Pussy Riot (Rough Trade, London.) In 2022 she joined the cohort of School of the Damned
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