Angela Thouless
(Scotland)
PAINTING
 
DETAILS
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions : 130 cm x 90 cm x 1.8cm (Inches W35.43 inches x H51.19  inches
 
DESCRIPTION
The "Bird Boruca Spray Can" painting is participating in the "Size Matters" International Group Show and is made by the great Scottish artist, Angela Thouless.
 
This painting is inspired by the Boruca tribe of Southern Pacific Costa Rica.
 
The history and traditions of Boruca masks began over 500 years ago, during the Spanish Conquest. 
 
‘Diablito’ masks, or little devil masks were created and worn with the intent to scare the unwelcome invaders back to Spain. 
 
The Boruca’s believe that the spirit animals of the jungle help them resist the conquistadors, so their elaborate masks are designed to represent those fierce animals and also local flora and fauna of their country.
 
While many indigenous tribes consider themselves to have been defeated by the Spanish, Boruca demonstrates that a tribe cannot be defeated if its culture is still alive today. 
 
Boruca is very much alive and fighting to preserve their identity.
 
BIOGRAPHY
Scottish artist Angela Thouless’ passion for urban art was sparked during her first trip to Amsterdam in 2012.
 
In Spuistraat, a neighborhood home to a community of creative types, she took countless pictures of decaying buildings and graffiti, traveling there almost every year to renew her repertoire.
 
What attracted her was the impromptu and transient nature of street art as well as its multiculturalism, as many artists would come from outside the country to make murals. Her series of spray can tribal mask paintings was inspired by a workshop Thouless led in her home town of Aberdeen, during which she painted on old spray cans.
 
The suite is an exotic and luxuriant array of tribal masks incorporating elements from African, Asian, and South American traditions. The masks are depicted on spray cans and surrounded by lush patterns of plants and animals.
 
The series has a distinct metropolitan feel and celebrates diversity through a message of unity: we are one species and one tribe. 
 
Thouless earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting and Master’s Degree and Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Design from Robert Gordon University’s Grays School Of Art in Aberdeen, Scotland. She exhibited widely in the UK as well as all over Europe and North America.
She is the owner of Tribe All, which designs t-shirt collections featuring tribal masks from around the world.
 
As a designer, Thouless participated in the Aberdeen and Milan Fashion Weeks. Her work appeared in publications such as Elle Decor, Red Magazine, and House & Garden.
 
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