Angela Valamanesh

Angela Louise Valamanesh AM (née Carter; born 1953) is an Australian visual artist, especially known for her ceramic art and sculpture that are based on forms found in the natural world.

Based in Adelaide, South Australia, she is also known for her past large-scale public art collaborations with her husband Hossein Valamanesh.

[8] Based in Adelaide, South Australia,[9] Valamanesh started out focusing on ceramics,[5] but expanded into mixed media and sculptural objects.

[7] While at the Glasgow School of Art in 1997, she created For a Long While There Were Only Plants, in which her love of shape and form became apparent, particularly those with their origins in biology.

She has also created watercolour paintings, including a series called Observations (2009–19), which she started while doing her doctorate at the University of Adelaide, inspired by discoveries of early botanist Nehemiah Grew and natural philosopher Robert Hooke.