Angela Goodwin-Day was born in Dartford, Kent in 1954.
She studied Foundation at Hornsey College of Art (1972-73), Textiles with Embroidery at Goldsmiths’ School of Art (1973-76) and Fine Art at Central School of Art & Design (1977). She gained a Masters in Fine Art at UCA Canterbury (2010).
AGD started teaching in 1977, initially as a stop-gap as she recovered from a serious RTA and also to see if she liked it. She did and teaching soon became a way of life, encompassing Design for Hairdressers (C&G), Beginners Art and GCSE Art & Design in prisons and schools.
One year stretched to over three decades.
A chance encounter with a car in 1976 may have altered her planned career path but it had not snuffed out the passion and excitement she had first experienced as a small child in her childhood, woodland home where making and collecting had absorbed all her free time.
Her ambition to concentrate on her own practice as an adult artist finally became a reality in 2008 as she began her Masters in Fine Art.
AGD found herself using living plants, particularly willow, as her inspiration.
Their naturally and tenaciously evolving forms seemed to echo an essential element in her own maturing process which had somehow become overlooked or forgotten during her determined efforts as a teacher in enabling other’s artistic insights and achievements.
Her pewter sculptures, created from the traces of incinerated fragments of willow have allowed her to enter a new world – where she is in control of her own making and her own paths of enquiry.
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Angela Violet Goodwin-Day
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MA Fine Art, UCA Canterbury – 2010
BA Textiles/Fashion with Embroidery, Goldsmiths’ College School of Art -1976
Since 1976 – mainly teaching/ lecturing
PGCE Secondary – (DfEE no: RP 81/53422) – 2001
Cert Ed Post 16 – 1982
C & G 730 Further Education Teacher’s Certificate – 1980
Exhibitions & commissions:
Islington Arts Factory “Metamorphose” London – 2010
Herbert Read Gallery, UCA Canterbury – 2009 & 2010
KATE Square Foot at KIAD, Maidstone – 2001
Designs for and making Textile Art – (on-going).
Current Practice:
Encompasses drawing, digital photography, metal casting and constructions inspired by the regenerative processes of plants.
Bespoke, site-specific commissions accepted.
Availability for teaching:
Negotiable – depending on practice and exhibition commitments therefore, generally speaking: full-time, short term only or part-time, two days per week.