Artist Angela McMahon creates a physical immersive installation at Lewisham Arthouse composed of suspended and floor standing sculptures of fantastical, strange and bizarre sea creatures. She imagines the undersea world where pollution and climate change have created the ideal conditions for jellyfish to thrive whilst other species die out and mutant sea creatures evolved from… Continue reading Invasion of the Jellyfish 2024
Category: Installation
Installation projects
Rainbow Tree: A Beacon of Hope 2023
Installed as a beacon of hope in difficult times Rainbow Tree celebrates community, connection, diversity and collaboration. Designed to inspire our imaginations and actions to create a brighter, more compassionate, inclusive and caring future. Thank you to the Albany for their support in this installation. If you have enjoyed seeing the Rainbow Tree please donate… Continue reading Rainbow Tree: A Beacon of Hope 2023
World Ocean Day 2022
An evening of magical tales, sea shanties, octopus stories and an exhibition of fantastical and strange sea creatures by Angela McMahon. The evening performance starts at 7 pm and kicks off with dance from Kings Youth Theatre who will present pieces from their ‘SOS: Save Our Seas’ show. Author Becci Louise will be reading extracts from her book ‘Octopus Medicine’,… Continue reading World Ocean Day 2022
Lewisham LBC First Day 2022
I will be at the Brockley Jack as Artist in Residence for the opening day of the Lewisham London Borough of Culture 2022. Here is a map. Other events can be found here.
Love Me Don’t Leave Me 2021
Reclaimed plastic and LED lights Angela McMahon is a local artist who works with discarded materials to create beautiful and thought-provoking sculptures, installations and drawings. Her work casts a spotlight on the environmental impacts of our ‘throwaway’ consumer society. Love Me Don’t Leave Me explores the beauty of nature and our seductive/destructive relationship with plastic.… Continue reading Love Me Don’t Leave Me 2021
Rainbow Tree 2020
Installed as a beacon of hope in difficult times Rainbow Tree takes Telegraph Hill back to its roots as a signalling station. Celebrating community, connection and collaboration, inspiring our imaginations to thoughts of a brighter, more compassionate, caring future. The Rainbow Tree was installed on the top of the Telegraph Hill Centre for Christmas, but,… Continue reading Rainbow Tree 2020
SustainabiliTree 2019
Lower Marsh Plaza, Waterloo SE1 7AY SustainabiliTree was designed and built by SE London artist Angela McMahon to provide an alternative Christmas tree that supports the drive for sustainability in the We Are Waterloo Business Improvement District. It offers a visceral experience of something we might normally just throw away and an opportunity to reflect.… Continue reading SustainabiliTree 2019
Tragic Harvest 2018
Tragic Harvest 2018 This installation for the Telegraph Hill Festival was designed in collaboration with artist Sara Willett. The work includes fantastical and strange sea creatures suspended above the ground, as if floating in the sea. These are imagined, strange and bizarre creatures that might emerge from a sea polluted by plastic. Ghosts of creatures… Continue reading Tragic Harvest 2018
Hexacombe 2016
Telegraph Hill Festival 2016. Hexacombe was inspired by the hexagonal patterns in nature, the organic carbon ring molecules from which the plastic is made and the substance itself. Plastic is also known as polymer which comes from the Greek ‘poly’ which means many and ‘mer’ which means unit. The hexagonal shape is extrapolated from micro… Continue reading Hexacombe 2016