CV

Angela is a sculptor and ceramicist from the North of England. She is interested in the fundamental form of the vessel and the relationships between ceramics practice and the domestic.

She holds a PhD in contemporary ceramics practice from the University of Sunderland.

Angela is a lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Salford and works out of her own studio on the edge of the Pennine hills in Lancashire

Selected Shows

2023 Super-Duper Objects (Solo Show) The Salford Museum and Gallery, Salford

2023 Objects, Axel Obiger Gallery, Berlin (with Jeffrey Knopf) Group Show

2022 Like a Bull in a China Shop (with Jeffrey Knopf) Ebor Studios, Littleborough

2021 Smalls - Performance: The International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth

2021 The COVID Clay Diary (Solo Show), The National Glass Centre, Sunderland

2020 Smalls - performance: The Window Gallery, Salford

2020 Work in Progress (Solo Show), Gallery Frank, Littleborough

2019 Northern Willow (Solo Show) Whitaker Museum, Rossendale

2018 The Urban Moth (Solo Show) The Manchester Museum

2017 Shades of Clay, The Kunsthuis Gallery, York

2017 ‘As Yet Untitled’ (Solo Show) Gallery Frank, Littleborough

2016 Hoard (Solo Show) Bank Street Arts, Sheffield

2015 Hoard, The Corn Exchange, Leeds

2015 Position Open (Solo Show) Manchester Victoria Station

2015 Ordsall Hall, Salford

2014 Reciprocity/Reciprocita (Solo Show) Littleborough/Salford/Macerata, Italy

2013 ATIC (Solo Show), Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale

Residencies

2019-20 Rochdale Town Hall

2018 The Manchester Museum

2016 Micro-residency, The Merzbarn, Cumbria

2015 Manchester Victoria Station

Commissions and Awards

2021 Ebor studio Commissions

2019 Contemporary Visual Art Network Development Bursary

Conferences

2021 Ceramics and Lockdown, The International Ceramics Festival and the Centre of Ceramic Art, York

2019 International Ceramics Festival Research Forum

2018 Post-Graduate Research Conference, Birmingham City University

2018 Research Forum - The University of Sunderland

2016 Guns to Goods, The People’s History Museum, Manchester

2015 ‘Hoard’ paper presented at Livre d’artists conference, Cardiff

2015 The Creative Entrepreneur, Media City UK

2013 Creative Hive Live, Media City UK

Publications

The Blovel: The Story of a Ceramics PhD

The COVID Clay Diary 2020, published by the University of Salford

Ceramic Review 2015 Issue Jan/Fab

Research

Academic research can be viewed here ORCID

Education

2022 PhD awarded by the University of Sunderland

2012 Post Graduate Diploma in Education, University of Bolton

2010 MA Contemporary Fine Art, University of Salford

2008 BA (Hons) Visual Arts, University of Salford

1998 BSc Financial Service, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

1995 Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers