Insight into Angus Watt Flags

About Angus Watt

Born in 1964, Angus Watt is an accom­plished British artist who is cur­rently based in Andalu­cia, Spain and in Bris­tol, UK. Angus’ main artis­tic con­cerns are with flag mak­ing, paint­ing, design, envi­ron­men­tal art­works, con­sul­tancy and instal­la­tions in the landscape.

Por­trait

Angus Watt - portrait 2011

The Flags

Work­ing as a visual artist, Angus Watt is a flag maker, who has devel­oped his own bold and inno­v­a­tive style over many years. Authen­tic­ity and orig­i­nal­ity lie at the heart of his work and keep it mov­ing in new and excit­ing direc­tions. Angus’ flags vary greatly in design and size. The flags work with the sur­round­ing land­scape to cre­ate images of power, beauty and grace. Angus Watt is the bespoke flag man­u­fac­turer and sup­pli­ers for WOMAD, the Eden Project and for Glas­ton­bury flags. His high qual­ity flags har­ness the ener­gies of the wind and sun to cre­ate a nat­ural and dynamic art form. Angus’ skill lies in being able to trans­form an oth­er­wise ordi­nary pub­lic place into a space with a heartbeat.

The flags com­mu­ni­cate, they evoke. Says flag pro­ducer Angus Watt, “Flags are the vital signs”.

Angus has devoted a large part of his cre­ative life to mak­ing these works and infus­ing them with integrity. He likes to think of them as a proper fusion of sev­eral media, com­bin­ing paint­ing and sculp­ture with ‘envi­ron­men­tal’ art. Light, sound and kinetic move­ment, all woven together in the moment. Of course they lend them­selves nat­u­rally to height­en­ing the sense of any occa­sion or event too, as they are so celebratory.

Recent  Projects

Video Pro­jec­tions — Exper­i­men­ta­tions With Video Pro­jec­tions At Night Onto New Series Of White Ban­ners, Extend­ing The Theme Of ‘Forest.’

Oerol Fes­ti­val — Site Spe­cific Instal­la­tions On Large Expanse Of Beach On Friesian Island Of Ter­schelling, NL

Eden Project — Corn­wall, UK  Chang­ing Sea­sonal Ban­ners At New Eco-Structure On A Yearly Basis From Its Open In 2000 To Present Day.

Welling­ton Inter­na­tional Fes­ti­val Of Arts — Site Spe­cific En-Masse Instal­la­tions Of Ban­ners In Welling­ton, New Zealand.

Cur­ricu­lum Vitae

Fes­ti­vals and Events

2011

  • Mys­tery­land Fes­ti­val, NL
  • Besti­val & Camp Besti­val, UK
  • The Glade Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Glas­ton­bury Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Oerol Fes­ti­val, NL
  • T In Park, Scot­land, UK
  • Eden Project, Corn­wall, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK

2010

  • Mys­tery­land Fes­ti­val, NL
  • Besti­val & Camp Besti­val, UK
  • The Glade Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Glas­ton­bury Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Oerol Fes­ti­val, NL
  • T In Park, Scot­land, UK
  • Eden Project, Corn­wall, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK

2009

  • Mys­tery­land Fes­ti­val, NL
  • Besti­val & Camp Besti­val, UK
  • The Glade Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Glas­ton­bury Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Oerol Fes­ti­val, NL
  • T In Park, Scot­land, UK
  • Eden Project, Corn­wall, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK
  • WOMAD, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2008

  • Rocket Fes­ti­val, ES
  • Mys­tery­land Fes­ti­val, NL
  • Besti­val & Camp Besti­val, UK
  • The Glade Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Glas­ton­bury Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Oerol Fes­ti­val, NL
  • T In Park, Scot­land, UK
  • Eden Project, Corn­wall, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK

2007

  • Mys­tery­land Fes­ti­val, NL
  • Besti­val & Camp Besti­val, UK
  • The Glade Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Glas­ton­bury Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Oerol Fes­ti­val, NL
  • T In Park, Scot­land, UK
  • Eden Project, Corn­wall, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK

2006

  • Rocket Fes­ti­val, ES
  • Besti­val & Camp Besti­val, UK
  • The Glade Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Glas­ton­bury Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Oerol Fes­ti­val, NL
  • T In Park, Scot­land, UK
  • Eden Project, Corn­wall, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK

2005

  • Rocket Fes­ti­val, ES
  • Glas­ton­bury Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Oerol Fes­ti­val, NL
  • T In Park, Scot­land, UK
  • Eden Project, Corn­wall, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK
  • WOMAD, Sri Lanka

2004

  • Glas­ton­bury Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Oerol Fes­ti­val, NL
  • T In Park, Scot­land, UK
  • Eden Project, Corn­wall, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK

2003

  • Glas­ton­bury Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Oerol Fes­ti­val, NL
  • T In Park, Scot­land, UK
  • Eden Project, Corn­wall, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK

2002

  • T In Park, Scot­land, UK
  • Eden Project, Corn­wall, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK
  • New Zealand Inter­na­tional Arts Fes­ti­val, NZ

2001

  • Eden Project, Corn­wall, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK

2000

  • Eden Project, Corn­wall, UK
  • Mel­bourne Museum, AU
  • WOM­ADalaide, AU
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK

1999

  • The Solar Eclipse, St Ives Sep­tem­ber Fes­ti­val, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK

1998

  • Bath Fes­ti­val, UK
  • St Ives Sep­tem­ber Fes­ti­val, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK

1997

  • Megadog Fes­ti­val, Corn­wall, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK

1996

  • Tour­ing Instal­la­tion, Year Of Visual Arts, Northum­ber­land, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK

1995

  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK
  • WOMAD, Cac­eres, ES
  • Coin St Fes­ti­val, Lon­don, UK
  • Stock­ton Fes­ti­val, UK

1994

  • South Bank Cen­tre, Lon­don, UK
  • WOMAD, Read­ing, UK
  • Stock­ton Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Sal­is­bury Fes­ti­val, UK
  • Tyne & Wear Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion, Sun­der­land, UK

Related Work

1993

  • North­ern Freeform — Pub­lic Arts — Designer And Painter
  • Arts Resource — Sun­der­land Seafront Painted Hoard­ings Project

1992

  • North­ern Freeform — Pub­lic Arts — Designer And Painter

1991

  • North­ern Freeform — Pub­lic Arts — Designer And Painter
  • Fish Quay Fes­ti­val Northshields

1990

  • North­ern Freeform — Pub­lic Arts — Designer And Painter
  • Fish Quay Fes­ti­val Northshields

1989

  • North­ern Freeform– Pub­lic Arts — Designer And Painter
  • Fish Quay Fes­ti­val Northshields
  • Freeform Arts Lon­don — Leices­ter Square Hoard­ings Work

Edu­ca­tion

Pim­lico School — Lon­don
1984 Arts Foun­da­tion — Exeter Col­lege Of Art
1990 Degree Fine Art — Mid­dle­sex & New­cas­tle
1993 Cyprus Col­lege, Lemba — Fellowship

Awards & Residencies

1995

  • Symonds­bury Col­lege Dorset

1994

  • North­ern Arts Artist Award

1992

  • Win­ston Churchill Fel­low — South Africa

1991

  • North­ern Arts Travel Award — Mexico

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