Hiss, digital photograph, June 2006

Angie Stride has a background in art history and librarianship. She has just completed her MA in Fine Art at Birmingham Institute of Art & Design.

Now working under the artist name ‘Angel Stripe’, she practices as a contemporary artist, predominantly in photography, video, and projection installation. She also has experience of working in sculpture and sound art. 

She has exhibited in Warwickshire and the West Midlands since 2000, and nationally and internationally since 2006 - most recently at the Fringe Arts Festival [identity] exhibition in Bath. Earlier this year her video ‘All for Love’ was selected for screening in Egilsstadir, Iceland. She was awarded the artist’s prize for ‘All for Love’ at the exhibition ‘What do people do all day’, organised by Birmingham Artists, in May 2006.

Angel is a member of Birmingham Artists, Leamington Studio Artists, the ‘We’re Still Alive’  collective, and has recently been invited to join ‘The Edge’.  She is also currently involved in setting up a new collective, ‘Strange Ways’, with 7 other artists in the West Midlands. More examples of her work can be seen on their respective web sites. 

Her current work explores the hierarchy of subject matter, specifically interrogating kitsch and the domestic through the examination of stereotypes. She employs subversion through the juxtaposition of kitsch and abject elements, and uses changes in scale to puncture familiarity.

contact:

angel@stride.demon.co.uk

more work:

www.angelstripe.co.uk