Curriculum Vitae

Mark Angus
Born 06.04.1949, Bath, England
 
  Training

1976 - 1978 Swansea School of Art, GB – Architectural stained glass
1968 - 1970 Bristol Polytechnic, GB – Chartered Surveyor
 
  Recent commissions

2011 Shortlisted Artist for Hexam Abbey, GB – South Transept window
2011 Berkhampstead School, Berkhampstead, GB – New School Chapel
2010 St. Raymund, Breitenberg, D – Scheme of four East windows „The Pascal Lamb“
2010 Spinkhill Catholic School, Spinkhill GB - Wall installation „Mary with the Children“
2010 St. Jakobus, Berg, D – Two choir windows „The Annunciation“
2010 Gisela School, (Niedernburg) Passau, D – Wall feature, cross, for mediations room
2009 Glass Hotel Zwiesel, D – Interior wall features
2009 Diocese of Passau, D – Crucifixes (wall design) Lower Bavarian Open Air Museum, Finsterau, D – Window ‘Madonna’
2008 Birth House Museum Pope Benedict XVI, Marktl, D – Window ‘The Star of the Sea - Ave Maris Stella’
2004 Oundle School Chapel, Oundle, GB – Four porch windows
2003 Glass Museum Frauenau, D – Epoch window on the theme of the Industrial Revolution
2002 - 2005 Glass Museum Frauenau, D – Planning concept for the new foyer (with G. Jo. Hruschka); advising and realisation of architectural installations in glass
2002 Trinity Church, Slough, GB – Three windows
2001 St. Austel, Cornwall, GB – Window
2001 Kemble Church, GB – East window
2000 - 2005 Church of the Immaculate Conception, Spinkhill, GB – Cycle of nine windows on the theme ‘The Spiritual Journey’
2000 - 2005 Oundle School Chapel, Oundle, GB – Scheme of 36 windows
2000 Royal Grammar School, Worcester, GB – Staircase window
2000 Steyning, Sussex, GB - East window
2000 Pucklechurch, Bristol, GB – Aisle window
 
  Principal Commissions pre 2000

1999 St. Mary Tory, Bradford-on-Avon - East window
1999 St Johns, Hamstead Marshall - East window
1998 St Dunstans, Hereford - Aisle window.
1997 Eardisley Church, Hereford - Choir window
1996 St Johns, Cheddon Fitzpaine - Nave window
1995 United Reform Church, Slough - Complete scheme of windows
1995 Point West - Internal screen, commissioned by London Contemporary Arts
1995 Velo, Hampstead, London - Internal screen
1994 Three piece screen, commissioned by Kesteven District Council.
1994 Orchard School, Bristol - Window
1993 Central Church, Swindon - Chancel window
1992 Malden Parish Church - Battle of Malden Millennium window
1991 St Bartholomews, Sheffield - Complete scheme of windows
1991 Devon and Exeter Hospital - Windows in chapel
1990 Guildford Cathedral - Choir window
1989 St John the Baptist, Frome - Tower window
1988 Catholic Church St Austell, Cornwall - Complete scheme of windows
1988 Emmanuel church Islington, London - Complete scheme of windows
1987 St. John the Baptist, Welwyn Garden City - Window
1987 St. Marys, Finchley, London - Six windows
1987 St. Marylebone, London - Five windows
1987 United Reform Church, Southampton - East window
1986 All Saints, Islington, London - Peace window
1985 Parish Church, Freshford - Aisle window
1984 Durham Cathedral - Nave window
1983 St Marys, Claverton - Tower window
1982 New Church, Midsummer Norton - Four windows
1981 Cirencester Hospital, Cirencester – Internal screen
1980, 2001 St. Bartholomews, Bath – Scheme of windows
1979 St Dunstans, Keynsham – West window
1979 St Steven’s, Bath - East window
 
  Public collections

2008 Birth House Museum Pope Benedict XVI, Marktl, D – Window ‘The Star of the Sea’ – ‘Ave Maris Stella’
2008 Lower Bavarian Open Air Museum, Finsterau, D – Window ‘Madonna’
2006, 2009 Diocese of Passau, D
1997, 2000, 2003 Glass Museum Frauenau, D
1980, 2007 Ely Stained Glass Museum, GB
1979 Victoria and Albert Museum, London
 
  Exhibitions since 2000

2011 „Flying Figures, Works on glass and paper“, Victoria Art Gallery Bath, GB (Solo exhibition)
2010 „Engel – für Dich da“ („Angels“), spectrumKIRCHE, Passau, D (Solo exhibition)
2009 „HandwerksKunst“, Handwerkskammer Wiesbaden, D, with Derix Glass Studios
2009 „Same Difference… from Stourbridge to Frauenau to Corning“, Corning, USA
2009 „Il Volto di Christo nell’ arte contemporanea“, Museo Diocesano di Brescia - Associazione Arte e Spiritualitá di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
2008 „Andere Himmel. Bilder in Glas und auf Papier“ („Other Heavens. Pictures in Glass and on Paper“), Gallery of the City of Deggendorf, D (Solo exhibition)
2008 „Das Antlitz Christi in der zeitgenössischen Kunst“ („The Face of Christ in Contemporary Art“), Cathedral and Diocese Museum, Passau, D
2008 „Same Difference“, Eisch Atelier, Frauenau, D
2007 „Faces Reappearing“, Ely Stained Glass Museum, Ely, GB (Solo Exhibition)
2007 „New Faces“, Church St. Jacob, Prachatice, Czech Republic (Solo Exhibition)
2007 „The Heart of Glass“, London Glass, London (with Erwin Eisch)
2006 „Collaborations 1“, Invited international Artist, Red House Glass Cone, Stourbridge
2006 „Verzogene Engel“, Galerie am Museum, Frauenau (Solo Exhibition)
2006 „Companions“, City of Prachatice, Galerie Dolní brána Prachatice, Czech Republic (with Barbara Zehner)
2006 „50 Künstler – 50 Vasen“, Glashütte Eisch, Frauenau / Glass Museum, Frauenau / Glass Museum, Rheinbach / Westfalian Museum of Industry – Glashütte Gernheim (exhibition curator)
2006 7 European Masters in Glass, Glass Museum, Frauenau
2005 „Arche“, Glass Museum, Frauenau
2005 „Faces“, Glass Museum, Frauenau
2004, 2006 Immenhäuser Glaspreis, Glass Museum, Immenhausen
2004 „From Adam to Jesus“, „SpectrumKirche“, Exerzitienhaus Passau (Solo Exhibition)
2003 „Garden – Law – Passion“, Regensburg (Solo Exhibition)
2001 „The Colour of Light“, Derix, Pfarrkirchen
2001 „The Colours of Order“, Galerie am Museum, Frauenau (Solo Exhibition).
2001 „Drei Glaskünstler“, Stadt Vilshofen
 
  Teaching

2010 Bild-Werk Frauenau, Germany, Interdisciplinary course together with Kevin Petrie
2010 Penland School of Arts and Crafts, North Carolina, USA
2010 Estonian Academy of Arts, Glass Department, Tallinn, Estonia, with Mare Saare
2010 Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, USA
2007 Master Class, Estonian Academy of Arts, Glass Department, Tallinn, Estonia
2006 Master class, International Glass Centre, Dudley, GB
2003, 2006 Penland School of Crafts, USA
1997 - present Bild-Werk Frauenau, Germany
1996 - 1999 Glass master classes with Ursula Huth and Helga Reay-Young, Bath, GB
1980 - 1999 Stained Glass department, School of Art and Design, Bristol
1980 - present Visiting lecturer to many Colleges including the Royal College of Art London
 
  Publications

2011 Milly Frances and Ines Kohl: Mark Angus. In: Glashaus / Glasshouse, July 2011
2009 Ines Kohl: Portrait des Glaskünstlers Mark Angus („A Portrait of the Glass Artist Mark Angus“), in: Lichtung 22 (2009) 4, 10-12
2009 Bernhard Kirchgessner (ed.): Dich zu schützen, dir zu nützen - Engelflorilegien des Hl. Bernhard von Clairvaux und Glasbilder von Mark Angus („For your shelter, for your use. Angel Florilegia of St. Bernhard of Clairvaux and Glass Paintings of Mark Angus“), Passau: Dietmar Klinger Verlag
2008 Mark Angus: Between Heavens, Passau: Dietmar Klinger Verlag
2008 Katharina Eisch: Die spirituelle Reise – ein Fensterzyklus von Mark Angus. Neue kirchliche Glasmalerei im britisch-deutschen Spannungsfeld („The Spiritual Journey – a Window Scheme of Stained Glass Windows by Mark Angus“), in: Das Münster. Zeitschrift für christliche Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft 61,1, 55-59
2007 KünstlerSeelsorge Passau, Dr. Bernhard Kirchgessner (eds.): Glas und Kirche. Dokumentation des forumKUNST in „Tom’s Hall“ am 6. Oktober 2006 in Frauenau, Passau („Glass and Church“, edited by the Diocese of Passau, Germany). Passau. Contains an essay by Mark Angus
2007 Reflecting on the spiritual quality of light: Mark Angus. In: Religious Education Today 24 (2007) 2
2006 Kate Baden Fuller: Contemporary Stained Glass Artists, A & C Black
1984 Working in Crafts, ed. by the Crafts Council, London
1984 Mark Angus: Modern Stained Glass in British Churches, Mowbrays
1984 Peter Townsend: Art within reach, Thames and Hudson
1983 Edwin Mullins: The Arts of Britain, Phaidon Press
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