ANGELA CHALMERS
Angela Chalmers is a British artist based in North Yorkshire whose cyanotype-based practice explores memory, femininity, and material traces. Working primarily with cameraless photography, Chalmers considers how objects can hold memory, emotion, and personal histories. Her work often draws upon overlooked narratives and traces of women's lives, creating evocative artworks that exist between past and present, documentation and imagination. As Artist-in-Residence at St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough, Chalmers investigates the traces of history embedded in landscape, architecture, and memory. Her work transforms fabric, botanical forms, and symbolic references into poetic blue imprints that connect past and present, reflecting on the traces left by those who have occupied a place before us.
The Stocking series uses worn, laddered stockings to create intimate cyanotype photograms. Removed from their everyday function, the fragile fabric becomes both skin and scar, suggesting vulnerability, sensuality, resilience, and emotional tension. The resulting blue impressions hover between body and absence, transforming ordinary garments into poetic traces that speak of intimacy, loss, desire, and the complexities of feminine experience.
SOMETHING ABOUT MARY
Work Details
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Something About Mary
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Cyanotype on muslin
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28 x 19 cm
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Unique
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£400