Very honoured to be the latest contributor to The Forgiveness Project’s collection of stories by people who have explored the possibility of forgiveness in the face of extreme experiences and pain. View Angela’s story here  

Please click to view a collection of Radio interviews relating to Publication Day of In My Grandfather’s Shadow – July 2022

Mandy Robotham talks to Stroud artist and public speaker turned writer, Angela Findlay, on the difficulties of her family’s complex past.

18th-20th July at the University of Winchester and online. Angela will be presenting a paper online – Talking about painful pasts to heal the present – on Wednesday 20th July, 3-4.30pm. More information and bookings here:

What an amazing week spent at Penguin Random House recording the audio version of my book. Felt very special to read every single word I wrote to an audience as yet unknown. You can pre-order here

One of four live conversations with Sandra Barefoot and Forgiveness Project story tellers exploring the dynamics of shame. Angela shares her discoveries of intergenerational shame within her family’s history and questions – whose shame are we carrying? 

I have a new website exclusively for my ART at: www.angelafindlay.com.

I was delighted that my forthcoming book, In My Grandfather’s Shadow, was selected as Editor’s Choice for July publication Non-Fiction in the bible of the book world – The Bookseller.

A big highlight in my TALKS calendar was being invited to Venice to talk at MADNICITY, a one-day Symposium on ‘The magic of madness’ and a fringe event of the 59th Venice Biennale. See my April BLOG  for more about it and the Biennale.

The very exciting broadcasting of my TEDx Talk as part of the TEDxStroud online event on Sunday 21st March.

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Exciting news on Born Bound, the book I have been researching and writing for the past five years. It has been commissioned by Penguin Transworld and I am now working on a new draft. Still a way to go but publication is secured.

Please contact Angela for details of when she will be giving a talk in your area.

I am delighted to be part of an impressive line-up of speakers (Max Hastings, Dan Snow) at the National Army Museum’s inaugural Chelsea History Festival.

Please feel free to read my article Art Behind Bars – how can art make a difference to the life of an offender?

In April 2019 I became a Trustee to The Dresden Trust.

The Empty Chair in art from Van Gogh to Ai Weiwei.

Listen to Angela talking to Anna King about ‘Art behind Bars’ on BBC Radio Gloucestershire on 27.02.19

From September – October, 2016, Angela was invited to co-facilitate a six-week prison programme at HMP Eastwood Park.

In July 2016 Angela fulfilled an ambition to advise at Government level when she was invited to take part in a joint Ministry of Justice & Department for Culture, Media and Sport round table focusing on the role of the arts in prisons.