Angus has a truly distinct artistic style—with his rough, textured collages, and distorted caricatures—that he claims to have learned and developed on his own, despite the four years of art school (ps. OCAD?). I'm excited to be posting about another collage artist from my very own city! I particularly like the continuity (of the forks, really) in his series called "Disease Logic."
Name (Real or Screename): Kevin Angus Guthrie
URL (Blog, Website): www.angusguthrie.com
Location (Where are you from?): Toronto Ontario, Canada
Q: Describe your work in 10 words or less.
A: The fragmentation of personal experience represented through the
fragmented elements of a collage.
Q: How long have you been creating collages and what made you start?
A: Since I was 19. It was the most accurate way to present my ideas.
Q: Are you solely an artist, or do you work in another profession?
A: I also do graphic design and I'm involved in film production.
Q: Do you have any formal art training?
A: I consider myself self taught, although I did go to an art school
for four years.
... That's my little joke.
Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A: Photocopied Photographs, moved while the machine is copying to get
a distortion. That and traditional mediums like paint, pastels, etc,
but no scissors.
Q: Describe your favourite piece ever created.
A: It's usually whatever I'm working on at the moment. There is a
catharsis that ends when I've finished a piece so I usually avoid
getting to that point for as long as I can. After I'm done I try not
to think about it much or I will want to change the piece and keep
going.
Q: What other artists do you admire?
A: There are too many to list. The artists that have influenced me
most are Dave Mckean, the Starn Brothers, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Henrik
Drescher, Francis Bacon, Betty Goodwin, Ralph Steadman and David
Hockney.
Thanks Angus!