Angela is an interdisciplinary artist who works both independently and collaboratively, working across sculpture, installation and performance. A synthesis of both traditional arts practice and current technologies are fused to create intimate and large scale immersive environments. The implementation of interactive technologies translates the idea of communication and connectivity. Layering and light is used to cross boundaries between real and illusionary space.
Angela is an interdisciplinary artist who works both independently and collaboratively, working across sculpture, installation and performance. A synthesis of both traditional arts practice and current technologies are fused to create intimate and large scale immersive environments. The implementation of interactive technologies translates the idea of communication and connectivity. Layering and light is used to cross boundaries between real and illusionary space.
Angela has exhibited and curated on a national and international level and has work within public and private collections. She has undertaken a number of residencies and has been the recipient of several awards including the A-N New Collaborations Bursary to fund participation in the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA14). Angela has recently established a cross disciplinary studio and gallery space: Studio MADE in North Wales and has participated in the BBC Connected Studios with NESTA and Arts Council Wales. In 2015, her interactive light installation Weaving Narratives was longlisted for the Lumen Prize.
Angela is a resident at Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol where she is exploring Light Choreographies: an interactive robotic light sculpture, informed by the creation of SpyGlass - developed during the Arts + Technology programme at Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab), and a period of research at OpTiC: Optro-Electronics Technology Centre (the centre responsible for creating the largest lens for the pan-STARRS project). The project is supported by Innovate UK and Arts Council Wales.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
2011-2013 MA Textiles with Distinction, Manchester School of Art, MMU
2006 Diploma of Higher Education in Youth Studies
Foundation Degree in Community Studies, NEWI (Glyndwr University), Wrecsam
2005 (QTS) Art & Design Graduate Teacher Programme, Welsh Assembly Government
2000 BA (Hons) Contemporary Crafts, Manchester Metropolitan University
1997 BTEC National Diploma Foundation Art & Design, Yale College, Wrecsam
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Light Choreographies, Pontio, Bangor
2016 Silent Spaces, Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan, Wales
SpyGlass, A site-responsive light installation for Cadw
2015 Weaving Narratives - a site-specific installation, St Asaph Cathedral, Wales [Link]
2013 Marking Time, Arts Council Wales funded exhibition, Wales
2010 Ephemeral, Theatre Clwyd, Wales
2009 Lost & Found, First Edition, Oswestry, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Light Bites, Ugly Duck, Canary Wharf, London
2016 Notations 1864, Studio MADE Denbigh
Studio MADE Launch, Denbigh, Wales
SpyGlass, Manchester Digital Laboratory, Manchester
Flow, Stitch Your Brain, Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire
2015 Net Reality, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy
TEXTiL Interpretations: Z Varnauskas, Meno Parkas Galerija, Kaunas, Lithuania
Ffolio, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran, Wales
The Vestry, Llawn / CALL, Llandudno, Wales
Conflux, Galleria Pihatto, Lappeenranta, Finland
Illuusio, The Memory of the Carousel, Old Glass Factory, Riihimaki, Finland
2014 The Presence of Absence, Haus of Helfa, Tedder House, Llandudno, Wales
Flow, Llif, Verta, Gallery 3B, International Show - Finland Wales
Mapio Madoc Creadigol, Oriel Wrecsam, Wales
2013 Pinpoint, One Church Street Gallery, Missenden, UK
What? Now! MA Show, Manchester School of Art, MMU, Manchester, UK
Metamorphosis, Barnaby Festival, Macclesfield, UK
Here, There, Everywhere, Creative International, Oriel Wrecsam, Wales
2012 Marking Moments, Manchester Special Collections, MMU, Manchester, UK
RESIDENCIES
2017 Cadw - third phase of Art + Archaeology project at Bryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey, Wales
Current Resident Artist at Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol [Link]
2016 Protovoulia Paradoxparadox: Creative + Collaborative project at HOME MCR
Cadw - second phase of Art + Archaeology project at Bryn Celli Ddu, Wales
2016 Arts+Tech Accelerator Programme, Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab),
Manchester (ACE + Innovate UK) [Link]
2015 Bryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey, Wales - Cadw [Link]
2014-2015 St Asaph Cathedral, Wales - Arts Council Wales, ADDO, St Asaph Cathedral
2014 Haus of Helfa, Tedder House, (CALL) Llandudno, Wales
2013-2014 Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales - Arts Council Wales [Link]
Chirk Castle (National Trust), Wales - Arts Council Wales [Link]
2013 Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, Gawthorpe Hall, nr Padiham, Lancashire [Link]
AWARDS
2016 Light Choreographies: Innovate UK Technology Strategy Board
Light Choreographies: Arts Council Wales Small Production
2015 TESLA: CoLab, Pontio Innovation Centre, Bangor, Wales
Exploration of Lens & Lighting Technology: Arts Council Wales:
Research & Development Grant [Link]
SIP Award Research collaboration: lens and lighting technology
2014 A-N New Collaboration Bursary: Collaboration with Janet Bezzant [Link]
Golau: Arts Council Wales: Grant for the Arts One-Off Production, Chirk Castle
2013 PROOF Print Scholarship, Regional Print Centre, Wrecsam
Marking Time: Arts Council Wales: Research & Development Grant
2010 Manchester Book Fair Prize: Ratchford LTD & Hot Bed Press
PROJECT LEAD/PRODUCTION/CURATED SHOWS
2017 Light Choreographies: Theatr Mwldan, Pontio, The Level Centre, StudioMADE
2016 Notations 1864, Co-curated with Mark Eaglen at Studio MADE
Launch at Studio MADE: Co-curated with Mark Eaglen
2015 NET-Reality, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy [Link]
Pilgrimage & Journeying Film Screenings at St Asaph Cathedral
Selected artists: Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Alec Shepley, Tracy Piper-Wright,
Ant Dickinson, Ronan Devlin, Karen Heald, Stephanie Paillet, Stuart McAdam &
Mark Eaglen
2014 Golau, ACW Funded Exhibition and Production, Chirk Castle, Wrecsam, Wales
2013 Marking Time, ACW Funded Research & Development
2012 A Sense of Place, People’s Market, Wrecsam, Wales
Coordinated, Selected and Curated an Open Art Exhibition with support from
Wrecsam County Borough Council, Oriel Wrecsam, Glyndwr University & ADDO
PAPER PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES & TALKS
2016 Illuminated Worlds, Pervasive Media, Bristol
Superposition, The Lowry, Manchester
Show + Tell, Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab), Manchester
2015 Weaving Narratives, Llandrillo College
Creative Futures, Glyndwr University
2014 Does Time mark us, or do we mark time? ISEA2014, Zayed University,
Dubai [Link] (International Symposium of Electronic Art)
Golau - Light Networks, Transgressive Thread, University Creative Arts, Surrey
Tracing Time, Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham
Memory of Place - A Site-Responsive Exploration, Coleg Cambria, Wales
2013/2014 Golau: presented the creative journey, Ruthin Craft Centre
2013 Golau, Creative Futures, Glyndwr University, Wrecsam, Wales
Creative Technologies & Craft Practice, Art Lab, Manchester School of Art, MMU
Metamorphosis, Barnaby Festival, Macclesfield
Making in Layers, Writing in Creative Practice, HEA, Chester University
2012 Marking Moments, Special Collections, Manchester Metropolitan University
Thinking Through Making, Writing in Creative Practice, Staffordshire University
COMMISSIONED WORK
2016 BBC Connected Studios: Build Studio for NESTA, BBC & ACW
2015 Artists’ Books: Gawthorpe Textiles Collection
Light Sculpture: St Kentigern Hospice, Wales
2014 Tracing Time Contemporary Lace Installation, Gawthorpe Textiles Collection
2000-present Private Commissions
2000 Private & Public commissions: Agrinio, Greece
COLLECTIONS
2014 Gawthorpe Textiles Collection
2013 Alke Groppel-Wegener, Staffordshire University, UK
2010 The University of Northampton, UK
2009 The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage & Construction, Texas
2008 Artists’ Books Special Collection, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Does Time mark us, or do we mark time? ISEA 2014
(International Symposium of Electronic Art 2014)
2013 Making in Layers, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice Volume 6 Number 2
2011 Work featured in Craft Galleries Guide, Caroline Mornement,BCF Books,
11th Edition
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2016 Studio MADE: Co-founder & Director of cross-disciplinary studio + gallery space
Notations 1864, Audio-Visual installation, Studio MADE
FLOW - Stitch your Brain with Gemma Latham
2015 Weaving Narratives - In response to St Asaph Cathedral Residency
John Hosking: Organist, Ant Dickinson: Composer, Lyndsey Thomas: Dancer
2014/2015 A-N New Collaborations Research trip with Janet Bezzant to ISEA2014
2014 Interactive Public Art Installation for Blackburn is Open with David Boultbee
2014 Golau - Immersive Multi-sensory exhibition and performance at Chirk Castle
Angelina Kornecka: Butoh Dancer, Karen Heald: Film maker, Ant Dickinson:
Composer, Francesca Simmons: Creative Violinist, Paula Budd
2014 Mapio Madoc Creadigol - Underwater film, sound and light digital works
with Karen Heald, Francesca Simmons, Ant Dickinson
2013 Lines: digital light exploration with Alice Kettle
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016 BBC Connected Studios Creative Day with Nesta + Arts Council Wales
2016 - ongoing Co-founded and launched Studio MADE: A cross-disciplinary studio & gallery
space fostering collaborations within Art, Science and Nature
2016 Creative Day, Connected Studios, BBC, NESTA, ACW
2015 Associate Director and Curator for International Contemporary Arts Wales,
Naples, Italy
2013 Volunteer for Memory & Cloth II exhibition, curated by Lesley Miller
2013 ENGAGE Cymru, Oriel Wrecsam. Delivery of sculpture and site specific art for
vulnerable young people (young offenders) in collaboration with Karen Heald.
2012 Volunteer: Ruthin Craft Centre: Japanese Style, Sustainable Design
2004-2005 Gallery Assistant (p/t), Wrexham Arts Centre (Oriel Wrecsam), Wales
TEACHING / LECTURING EXPERIENCE
2013-2014 Lecturer, BA Textiles in Practice, Manchester School of Art, MMU, UK
2013 ASEF - Teacher’s Classroom Network (Asia Europe Foundation), Bali,
Indonesia
2013-2015 Arts Facilitator: Wrecsam County Borough, working with vulnerable young
people 11-18
2012 ASEF Facilitator on International University Programme: Asia Europe
Foundation (ASEF), Conscious Consumer, Creative Campaign, Tartu
University, Estonia [link]
2012-present Creative Consultant for BBC Education
2009 Mentor: External Partnerships Programme, Manchester School of Art, MMU
2008 Lecturer: Young Artists in Italy A level Art & Design Cheshire students in Italy
2007-2011 Lecturer for GCSE Art & Design & AS Textiles
Residential Programmes, Conway Centre, Anglesey, Wales
2007-2012 Teacher of Art, Textiles & Photography (F/T), QPHS Visual Arts College,
Chester, UK
2005-2007 BOOST Teacher, Community Participation Co-ordinator, WCBC, Wales
2004-present Freelance Arts Educator
2003-2005 Graduate Teacher & Catch Up Programme Coordinator, WCBC, Wales
2000-2001 Teacher of English, Sotiriou’s Institute, Agrinio, Greece
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Resident Artist at Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol
Associate member of Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
AXIS
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