ANGIE PORTER
Visual Artist
Australia
Visual Artist
Australia
ANGIE PORTER
Angie Porter is a project based visual artists whose work extends to socially engaged projects as well as using traditional painting techniques. Her current project is painting orphaned dogs who are struggling to find new owners. Angie is doing this project with Ferne Animal Sanctury, UK. She is doing a painting series featuring the dogs of people who live on the streets in Paris.
She paints but also does performance. She is currently working on her latest spoken word piece "Menopausal Bingo - A heroes journey in numbers".
Angie's influences include social realism and the works of Australian artists Charles Blackman and modernists such as Joy Hester. Her performance pieces are influenced by her tutor and, YBA contemporary artist Bob and Roberta Smith.
She was born in Melbourne, and lives and works in the UK, and holds a degree in Art History (BA) from La Trobe University and studied printmaking in Fine Art (BFA) at John Cass School of Art at the London Met University.
Angie has studied stone sculpture in Tuscany, Italy under sculptor Silvio Viola.
Angie has been painting since she was a child and has participated in exhibitions over the years in London, Europe, and Australia.
Artist Statement
For me art is a journey into the unknown energies of love. Painting gives me a portal into a deep connection I feel for an animal – a feeling that we are all part of a divine mystery as I fall in love with my subject in the process. I love performing pieces that bring people outside their everyday and challenge what they take for granted. I love to point people towards a deeper mystery. A more soulful way of looking at the world. Most of all I strive to remind people of the happiness that is accessible when we appreciate the wonders in our own lives.
She paints but also does performance. She is currently working on her latest spoken word piece "Menopausal Bingo - A heroes journey in numbers".
Angie's influences include social realism and the works of Australian artists Charles Blackman and modernists such as Joy Hester. Her performance pieces are influenced by her tutor and, YBA contemporary artist Bob and Roberta Smith.
She was born in Melbourne, and lives and works in the UK, and holds a degree in Art History (BA) from La Trobe University and studied printmaking in Fine Art (BFA) at John Cass School of Art at the London Met University.
Angie has studied stone sculpture in Tuscany, Italy under sculptor Silvio Viola.
Angie has been painting since she was a child and has participated in exhibitions over the years in London, Europe, and Australia.
Artist Statement
For me art is a journey into the unknown energies of love. Painting gives me a portal into a deep connection I feel for an animal – a feeling that we are all part of a divine mystery as I fall in love with my subject in the process. I love performing pieces that bring people outside their everyday and challenge what they take for granted. I love to point people towards a deeper mystery. A more soulful way of looking at the world. Most of all I strive to remind people of the happiness that is accessible when we appreciate the wonders in our own lives.