Angela Chalmers North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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Angela Chalmers is a contemporary artist and author based in the North East of England. Her creative practice explores women’s history and references popular culture through the process of photography and painting. She has worked as a curator, educator and collaborative artist. Her work has been exhibited internationally and has been acquired by private collectors.

Angela Chalmers is a contemporary British artist whose practice explores cyanotype and alternative photographic processes through themes of memory, identity, landscape, and women's histories. Her richly layered works combine cameraless photography with textiles, mixed media, and sculptural forms, extending the possibilities of cyanotype beyond the flat photographic print.

Working directly with sunlight, organic materials, lace, fabric, and found objects, Angela creates deeply tactile works that connect personal histories with collective memory. Her use of cyanotype links her practice directly to the earliest 19th-century photographic experiments while simultaneously transforming the medium into a contemporary language of emotional and material expression.

Angela is particularly interested in the relationship between photography and touch. The physicality of cloth, thread, and handmade surfaces introduces a sense of intimacy and vulnerability into the work. Botanical forms, garments, domestic objects, and layered impressions become carriers of memory and presence.

Alongside her artistic practice, she has contributed significantly to the wider field of alternative photography through education and publication. Her book Creative Cyanotype: Techniques and Inspiration has helped introduce a new generation of artists and makers to the creative possibilities of cameraless photographic processes.

Her works occupy a distinctive space between photography, textile art, and installation, combining historical processes with contemporary concerns surrounding identity, ecology, and remembrance.