Bio
Angela is a multi-disciplinary artist with a disability, a visual and performance artist as well as a somatic dance practitioner. Angela is interested in how her inherently choreographic practice manifests into performance installation, poetry, movement, drawing, walking, spoken word and video. Angela's work is about embodied processes and the body.
Angela makes work through a process of investigations using improvised movement scores arising from site specific spaces; she then translates these responses into installations and performances, often with a live audience.
She is in the last year of a practice based PhD at University of Sunderland, her research title is: 'Feminist Art Embodied Responses to Rural Territory'; specifically exploring rural spaces in my locale of a ex mining community, where I live in the north east, including class, disability and intersectional discrimination.
From 2003 her work has investigated the different body systems through the experiential training of Body-Mind Centering or ’BMC’ in the USA and Germany, made possible through two grant awards in 2003 and 2005 for Professional Development, from Arts Council England. Angela has completed the following BMC courses: The Nervous System, Basic Neurological Patterns ,The Reflexes, The Muscle System, Senses and Perception, Ontogenetic Development, Skeleton System and The Organ System.
Angela received a Rebecca Skelton award in 2013 to work with Professor Jane Bacon at the University of Chichester to work on a PhD proposal regarding the occupation of rural space and feminist theory of embodiment . Angela taught Contact Improvisation and Release from 1987-1993 and has developed a substantial practice as a somatic movement and dance practitioner, which now runs alongside and is fully integrated into her practice as a visual and performance artist.
She was a regular visiting lecturer for University of Sunderland with regard to the work of choreographers Pina Bausch and Rosemary Butcher from 1994 -2014. From 2008-10 she taught the modules 'Fundamental Movement' and' Improvisation and the Body', at Northumbria University on the Choreography degree.
Since 1986 Angela has made over twenty five pieces of performance and dance theatre, she has presented three solo exhibitions of paintings. She is a freelance artist for the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art since 2005, worked part time as a Creative Broker for Arts and Dance Connect 2013-25 and has over 30 years experience of working with the arts as a facilitator, with women's groups, early years and many diverse communities; she has also lectured in Education and Higher Education on the work of Pina Bausch and developed Modules for the University of Sunderland on Improvisation.
Angela took time out of her career from 1990 to 2010 working part-time and with a Children's Rights Charity, to bring up her two sons alongside her partner, as well as recover from a serious knee injury.
Publications and Membership of the following Collectives, Organisations and Trade Unions:
Qualifications
M.A. Fine Art University of Sunderland - 2017
B.A. (Hons) Creative Practice - major Fine Art - Leeds Met University - 2008
B.A. (Hons) Performance Art - Middlesex Polytechnic 1983 - 1986
Foundation in Performance Art - Newcastle College School of Music 1981-83
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Angela is a multi-disciplinary artist with a disability, a visual and performance artist as well as a somatic dance practitioner. Angela is interested in how her inherently choreographic practice manifests into performance installation, poetry, movement, drawing, walking, spoken word and video. Angela's work is about embodied processes and the body.
Angela makes work through a process of investigations using improvised movement scores arising from site specific spaces; she then translates these responses into installations and performances, often with a live audience.
She is in the last year of a practice based PhD at University of Sunderland, her research title is: 'Feminist Art Embodied Responses to Rural Territory'; specifically exploring rural spaces in my locale of a ex mining community, where I live in the north east, including class, disability and intersectional discrimination.
From 2003 her work has investigated the different body systems through the experiential training of Body-Mind Centering or ’BMC’ in the USA and Germany, made possible through two grant awards in 2003 and 2005 for Professional Development, from Arts Council England. Angela has completed the following BMC courses: The Nervous System, Basic Neurological Patterns ,The Reflexes, The Muscle System, Senses and Perception, Ontogenetic Development, Skeleton System and The Organ System.
Angela received a Rebecca Skelton award in 2013 to work with Professor Jane Bacon at the University of Chichester to work on a PhD proposal regarding the occupation of rural space and feminist theory of embodiment . Angela taught Contact Improvisation and Release from 1987-1993 and has developed a substantial practice as a somatic movement and dance practitioner, which now runs alongside and is fully integrated into her practice as a visual and performance artist.
She was a regular visiting lecturer for University of Sunderland with regard to the work of choreographers Pina Bausch and Rosemary Butcher from 1994 -2014. From 2008-10 she taught the modules 'Fundamental Movement' and' Improvisation and the Body', at Northumbria University on the Choreography degree.
Since 1986 Angela has made over twenty five pieces of performance and dance theatre, she has presented three solo exhibitions of paintings. She is a freelance artist for the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art since 2005, worked part time as a Creative Broker for Arts and Dance Connect 2013-25 and has over 30 years experience of working with the arts as a facilitator, with women's groups, early years and many diverse communities; she has also lectured in Education and Higher Education on the work of Pina Bausch and developed Modules for the University of Sunderland on Improvisation.
Angela took time out of her career from 1990 to 2010 working part-time and with a Children's Rights Charity, to bring up her two sons alongside her partner, as well as recover from a serious knee injury.
Publications and Membership of the following Collectives, Organisations and Trade Unions:
- 2025: Guest Editor for digital art magazine 'artED' for Helen Shaddock: https://arted.online/noticings/dare-to-dream-now-online/
- 2024: A Feminist Journal for Art, Writing and Resistance - The Misogyny Club: my Poem ‘Women’s Work' and 4 pieces of Art Work, titled: ‘Mother, Mother, sisters, Daughters’.
- 2018: 'Artists' Union England - A New Trade Union'. CAMEo Cuts, University of Leicester Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economics, June https://www2.le.ac.uk/institutes/cameo/publications/cameo-cuts-8
- 2013: Responsible scientists and a citizens' panel: new storylines for creative engagement between science and the public. By Philip A Robinson, Phil Macnaghten, Sarah Banks, Janie Bickersteth, Angela Kennedy, Yvonne Richardson, Sue Shaw, Ingrid Sylvestre: https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geoj.12042
- Axisweb - Artist of the month, August 2014 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUgYUMYFQ5A
- Founding member of dine - a collective of independent dance artists interested in Improvisation and sharing their Professional Practice 2011-20: https://danceimprovnortheast.wordpress.com/
- Founding member of Artists' Union England - the first trade union for visual, applied and socially engaged artists; Chair 2014-15, Executive Member, Co-Chair 2016 to 2018: http://www.artistsunionengland.org.uk/
- Part of: Dot to Dot Active Arts - a independent artist-led arts organisation and community interest company: http://www.dottodotactivearts.org/about/
- 2012 -14 A collective member of NEFG - the North East Feminist Gathering: http://www.nefeministgathering.com/the-programme.php
- Equity member since 1996
- accumulations- a female lineage project http://www.accumulationsproject.com/angela-kennedy/
Qualifications
M.A. Fine Art University of Sunderland - 2017
B.A. (Hons) Creative Practice - major Fine Art - Leeds Met University - 2008
B.A. (Hons) Performance Art - Middlesex Polytechnic 1983 - 1986
Foundation in Performance Art - Newcastle College School of Music 1981-83
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Performance of 'blue'
