Ange Leinster is a sculptural artist with a passion for clay. She is interested in exploring the possibilities of material and works intuitively and experimentally to create forms that aim to communicate not only concept but a spiritual and emotional understanding.
Having graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 1994, Ange has travelled widely and worked in a variety of contexts. These experiences and the people she has met and stories she has shared are embedded in the work she produces. Her work is concerned with themes of connectedness - with material and its source, with landscape, between people, and with a search for meaning and contemplation. Her simplified figures seek to communicate a sense of stillness and connection to the world.
Working with predominantly in clay - handbuilding, raw glazing and multiple firing to both stoneware and earthenware, she is inspired the process of making and the discoveries that can be made when that process is open to possibilities. She looks for raw, matt, surfaces where marks are a by-product of interventions. 
Alongside her own creative practice Ange has taught for many years both through workshops and in classroom settings in art galleries, prisons, FE institutions, universities, schools and other more unconventional settings. It is these interactions that really inspire her work - the experience of witnessing the transformative effect of creative discovery in the life of a young person is the spark that drives her own creative practice.