Molly Williams MSDC

Feltmaking

About Molly
Molly is a studio based textile artist whose creativity is inspired by her Shropshire home and the movement and emotive posture of the human form. Her sculptures reflect her thoughts and feelings as individual personality and form materialise from physical and mental effort. Natural dyes, found wood, metal objects, and ceramic are sometimes included in both her 2D and 3D work. Molly's abiding interest is in the research and development of a project with the aim to develop innovative and unique work.
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Molly is a professional textile artist and designer craftsman specialising in figurative felt sculpture and mixed media textile art and design.

Experimentation and innovation are her principal driver combined with a love of fibres and fabrics, notably the properties of wet felted wool fibres.

Figures sculpture, informed by the movement and emotion of Contemporary and Modern dance, have been a feature of her work for several years. She has taught her wet felt sculpture technique in workshops in the USA and online.

Molly's current work reflects her new home in Shropshire, both the countryside and its rich social history. She is experimenting and developing work using natural dyes and British wools and is producing new 2D and 3D abstract and figurative fibre art.

Molly was fortunate to spend her childhood in Africa and Turkey when her passion for Turkish and Ottoman design began. Her pattern design work is largely informed by Turkish textiles and ceramics, that echo their culture and environment; patterns full of memory and metaphor that link us to a mutual past. Her designs are digitally printed on fabric to create Ottoman style kaftans, jackets and decorative wall hangings and surface pattern design.

She accepts art and pattern design commissions at home and abroad

Molly runs her business from a garden studio at her home.

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Postgraduate Certificate Textiles – Manchester Metropolitan University 2023

BA(Hons) Embroidered Textiles Middlesex 2008

QTS Design and Technology (Textiles) 2009


Exhibitions and Memberships

Society of Designer Craftsmen MSDC

- Mall Galleries 2009 -2013

Prism Textile Art

- Mall Galleries, London 2008 – 2014

- Hiscox Centre, London 2016

- Hoxton Arches Gallery, London 2015 – 2019


Galleries and Commisions

  • Private commissions - figurative felt sculpture, pattern design for interiors and fashion.
  • T Wells Gallery, Tonbridge Wells, Kent
  • Pure Arts 2013


Workshops

  • In studio workshops
  • Online workshops - Contemporary dancer and Contemplative Figures
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