BIOGRAPHY

Angela Inglis (b. 1964, Calgary) is a visual artist whose practice explores memory, materiality, and transformation through paper-based collage, painting, and textile-inspired assemblage. Her work draws deeply from personal archives, domestic rituals, and the interplay between order and entropy. Using repurposed watercolours and shredded documents—from family records to financial reports—she constructs layered compositions that blur the lines between painting, craft, and conceptual art.

Inglis graduated with distinction from the Alberta College of Art (now AUArts) in 1994, receiving the Louise McKinney Scholarship, the Board of Governors’ Award, and the Joyce & Owen Hughes Memorial Bursary. During her final year, she co-founded the Untitled Art Society (now The Bows), out of a desire to preserve creative community—a commitment that continues to shape her practice. She has also served on the board of The New Gallery, participated in guerrilla-style public art interventions, and co-developed a series of Calgary pop-up exhibition spaces including The Sugar Estate, The Sugar Shack and The Sugar Cube.

Throughout the early 2000s, Inglis explored street photography and crochet alongside a prolific output of over 300 watercolour paintings. This extensive archive became the foundation for Entropia (2020–present), a project that repurposes earlier work into new quilt-like formations. Her work has been exhibited across Alberta and nationally, and is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, University of Toronto and private collectors. Notable exhibitions include Made in Calgary: The 1990s (Glenbow Museum) and AGA100: Act 3 – Words to Worldmaking (Art Gallery of Alberta).