Angela is a TEDx Speaker and presenter of BBC1 BAFTA nominated documentary ‘Life After Suicide’. The film challenged the stigma surrounding mental health issues, encouraging open discussion and exploration. Describing her own experience of bereavement by suicide, Angela travelled across the UK talking to others who had experienced the same loss. Angela has advised on programmes and scripts for broadcast media including the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Radio 4. Angela is a founding member of the Speakers Collective which supports those who also wish to speak publicly about their lived experiences.
Angela is an invited attendee of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention in England and Wales and co-author of the Parliamentary award-winning Zero Suicide Alliance training, which has been accessed by three million people globally. Angela was Chair of the Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide for five years and continues to be an Ambassador for the charity. Recognising this and her role in presenting ‘Life After Suicide’, Angela was named Merseyside Woman of the Year and awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Liverpool John Moores University.
Angela holds a Masters degree in Art History and Curating, and has been an arts professional for two decades, leading the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery and working freelance with individual artists and arts organisations including the National Gallery, Heart of Glass, Open Eye Gallery and The British Library. Angela currently Chairs the Tate Liverpool Capital Development Advisory Group.
In 2018 Angela completed a Churchill Research Fellowship which brought together her interests in art and mental health. She travelled to the USA and Japan looking at artworks created by predominantly untrained and under-represented artists who had experienced mental and physical health challenges, visiting in-patient units, arts studios and Outsider Art environments.
The two disciplines came together once again when Angela co-founded Grow Wellbeing CIC, a not-for-profit organisation that delivers creative opportunities for children, young people and adults to engage in nature-based activities, with a mission is to support healthy communities strongly connected to the natural environment. Grow has a commitment to diversity and inter-generational co-operation using forest learning, creative arts, storytelling and nature learning to encourage a commitment to the future stewardship of the natural environment.
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