Capturing
Sound | Sensation
ANGELINA JANE | ARTIST | DESIGNER | INNOVATOR
My interdisciplinary practice explores memory, sensation, perception, and embodied experience through wearable sculpture, tactile objects, automatic drawing, and immersive digital installation. Rooted in my experience of audio-tactile synaesthesia, the work investigates how sound, touch, movement, and memory intertwine, shaping the ways we understand ourselves, others, and the realities we inhabit.
Working across sculpture, carved surfaces, projection, sound, responsive technologies, and kinaesthetic interaction, I seek to translate ephemeral sensory experiences into material form. Through processes of repetitive gesture, automatic drawing, layering, and tactile making, sensations become physical presences: carved, illuminated, worn, or held. Sound becomes corporeal, memory becomes spatial, and touch acts as both a connective language and a means of understanding what is felt but unseen.
Central to my practice is an interest in the liminal spaces between the material and immaterial, the physical and digital, reality and illusion. I am fascinated by the way memories and sensory experiences leave traces within the body: how a sound, texture, or fleeting sensation can transport us across time and place with startling immediacy. My work considers synaesthesia as a framework through which expanded forms of perception and sensorial empathy may be explored, inviting audiences to engage with experiences that resist direct verbal articulation.
My immersive installations bring together sculptural artefacts, projected imagery, sound, movement, and audience interaction to create environments that oscillate between familiarity and disorientation. These spaces encourage moments of heightened sensory awareness, where viewers become active participants within shifting perceptual landscapes. I am particularly interested in how technologies, often perceived as distancing us from authentic experience, might instead become tools for connection, intimacy, and embodied presence.
Materiality remains fundamental to the work. Wax, clay, copper, thread, light, and tactile surfaces carry traces of rhythm, gesture, pressure, and memory. Through these materials, I attempt to make tangible the fragile and often ineffable relationship between sensation, emotion, and perception.
Alongside my studio practice, I have over twenty years’ experience in arts education as a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Contemporary Design Crafts at the Hereford College of Arts. Teaching and mentorship continue to inform my approach to experimentation, interdisciplinary practice, and critical enquiry, supporting an ongoing dialogue between creative practice, research, and collaborative exchange.
Ultimately, my work is an invitation to pause within the spaces between sensation and understanding; to consider how touch, memory, sound, and material shape our perception of reality, and how, through these fragile sensory threads, we remain connected to one another and the world around us.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Satori
2025, Hardwick Gallery
Sense of Place
2024, The Willson Gallery, Cheltenham
Rising Stars
2023, New Ashgate Gallery, Oxford
HArt
2023, Hereford College of Arts
Crafts Festival & Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair 2018-2022
