Aaron Angell

The Death of Robin Hood

Black conical metal structure with a see-trough hole in it surrounded with a white flowers. The Kelvingrove Museum organ can be seen behind it.

A chess display on top of a table made of bricks, behind it, we can see a metalic cream colored box on top of a wooden storage box. Behind that, a big cut tree rings with black labels on it. Behind, a metal conical structure with the see-through circle surrounded by white flowers.

In front of plants, there is a ceramic display of cilindrical turquoise tubes and two ceramic flowers, on top of a base of bricks.

In a greenhouse, between plants, a small display of a ceramic green wheel with a flower on top of it, on top of a base of bricks.

In a greenhouse, between plants, two small displays of ceramic trees with a ladder in between, in front of a base of bricks.

Glasgow Botanic Gardens & Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

For Glasgow International, Aaron Angell presented a single exhibition split across two venues.

Borrowing its title from Peter Vansittart’s historical novel of 1981, Angell presented new sculptural works influenced by psychedelic poetry, philosophies of gardening, the colour green, and the architecture of pipe organs.

In Kelvingrove, Angell was exhibiting new sculptural work on the mezzanine level facing the museum’s great organ, including works in iron, assemblages of sixteenth century furniture, and other found objects. Central to this presentation was a theatrical programme of organ recitals. This featured examples of early secular music, diffused with melodies traditionally performed on itinerant instruments, rather than through the fixed site of the organ.

At Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Angell presented a series of new ceramic sculptures among plants in the National Begonia collection. These works were produced in close reference to the compositions of the gardener Capability Brown and associated examples of vernacular architecture. Here the organ was re- imagined as a machine for communicating with the vegetable kingdom. This was accompanied by a poetry reading with D.M. Black and Lucy Mercer during the opening weekend of the festival.

Commissioned by Glasgow International.