Based in Lancaster, in North West England, I designed posters for cultural events around the UK from 1974 to 2006. I screen-printed many of these posters by hand. I also designed book covers, logos, etc.
Occasionally I created prints. These, and more recent works, can be seen at john-angus.com
I was director of Storey Gallery in Lancaster which showed a contemporary art programme for 20 years, and I currently run StoreyG2, researching landownership history.
COMMISSIONERS included:
Arts Organisations
North West Arts Board; Arts Council of England; The Young Vic Theatre;
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester;
The Duke’s Theatre, Lancaster; Ludus Dance Company; Lancaster Literature Festival;
Welfare State International; Polka Theatre for Children, London;
Sherman Theatre, Cardiff; Crucible Theatre, Sheffield; Weekend Arts College, London;
Scottish Ballet; Theatr Powys; Theatre Foundry; Red Ladder Theatre;
M6 Theatre; Contact Theatre,Manchester; Leicester Haymarket;
Paines Plough; Croydon Warehouse; Edinburgh Filmhouse;
Birmingham Arts Lab; Arts for Labour; Arts for Health.
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Publishers
Framework Press – Educational Publishers (all their book and catalogue covers);
Folens; Polity Press (Blackwells); Alison and Busby.
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Others
Allerdale Borough Council; BBC Television; Blackpool Borough Council;
Blackpool Community Health Trust; Body and Face Place; Lancaster City Council;
Lancaster University; Lancaster Community Health Council; Lancaster Police;
Making Connections; Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester;
Royal College of Midwives; City and Hackney Health Authority;
North Yorkshire Health Authority;
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EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
1978 Dukes Playhouse, Lancaster
1979 Preston Polytechnic Library [now University of Central Lancashire]
1980 Derby Hall, Bury
1980 Museum of Lakeland Life, Kendal
1980 Royal Northern College Music, Manchester
1980 Manchester Libraries tour
1982-87 North West Arts Association [now Arts Council England NW] touring exhibition
1982 Mid-Pennine Arts, Burnley
1983 TheatreArts Bookshop, New York
1984 Liverpool Playhouse
1998 Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
1998 Looking Well, Bentham, N Yorks
1998 LitFest 20 Years. Sun Street Studios, Lancaster
2015 Theatre Posters. The Dukes, Lancaster
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GROUP
1980 International poster exhibn. Writers’ Week, Listowel, Eire.
1982 North West Illustrators. Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1990 A Breath of Fresh Air. Brierley Hill Health Centre and touring
1991 Design exhibition. Drumcroon Art Centre, Wigan
1991 Celebratory Arts for Primary Health Care. Gateshead Central Library
1992 Arts for Health. Wellcome Foundation, London
1993 Time for a change of Heart. Gateshead Health Centre
1993 Heart posters. Tyneside Metro Rail Link
1993-97 Hospitals and health centres throughout UK
1993 Arts for Health. British Council, Manchester and touring
1995 Heart posters. National Heart Foundation, Australia
1998 Birmingham Arts Lab. Birmingham Art Gallery
2001 Cheers. Lancaster City Museum
2011 Was I there? Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University
2011 The Bruce Lacey Experience. Camden Arts Centre, London
2013 Deaf School: The Art School Dance Goes on Forever. School of Art & Design, John Moores University, Liverpool
2017 No Turning Back, Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain. Migration Museum, London
2019 Art of Music. King Street Studios, Lancaster
2022 Sound & Vision : Music Art Exhibition. NTKO Gallery, Louth, Lincolnshire
2022 Torn Apart : Punk, New Wave + the Graphic Aftermath, 1976-86. Pacific Design Centre Gallery, Los Angeles
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS :
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Manchester Metropolitan University
Wellcome Collection, London
People’s History Museum, Manchester
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PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
The posters are in many private collections, particularly those created for rock and punk gigs in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY includes:
Engineers of the Imagination: Welfare State Handbook Baz Kershaw Methuen 1983
The Art of Punk : posters+flyers+fanzines+record sleeves Russ Bestley & Alex Ogg Omnibus Press 2012 & 2014
Classic Rock Posters: 60 years of posters, flyers and handbills: 1952–2012 Mick Farren & Dennis Loren Omnibus Press 2013
Punk 45: The Singles Cover Art of Punk 1976-80 Ed: Jon Savage and Stuart Baker Soul Jazz Records 2013
Presenting Shakespeare : 1,100 Posters from Around the World Mirko Ilić & Steven Heller Princeton Architectural Press, New York 2015
Oh So Pretty: Punk in Print 1976-1980 Rick Poynor &Toby Mott Phaidon Press 2016
When Rock Went to College : Legends Live at Lancaster University, 1969–1985 Barry Lucas and Paul Tomlinson Carnegie 2017 & 2019
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