Collection: Angela Maddock : Textile Artist : Swansea

Angela Maddock is an artist and academic. She has a PhD in Textiles from the Royal College of Art and is a King’s Artist with King’s College, London, where she contributes to Clinical Humanities teaching with medical students and Arts and Humanities teaching with midwifery students. She was previously Maker in Residence with the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care and recipient of a Crafts Council Parallel Practices Award. Angela was a senior lecturer in Contextual Studies at Swansea College of Art, where she also led the MA Textiles programme. She continues to support the BA Surface Pattern Design and MA programmes as an Honorary Research Fellow. Angela’s main concern is how we embody textile language and experience in our everyday lives and how we might use textile methodologies as tools for research and engagement. Her practice embraces tapestry weaving, 3D construction, knitting, embroidery and quilting.  Angela traced her own thread when she walked from Carmarthen to Middlesbrough on the instruction of her mobile phone in October 2018. Her current research applies textile methodologies to a new reading of Anna Freud’s archive. Angela grew up in the West Midlands and lives in Swansea.