Wet felted sculpture · Textile art · Online workshops Rooted in British wool, natural dyes and the Shropshire landscape
Textile artist working across sculpture and constructed textile form, exploring movement, the body, and material through spatial construction and gesture.
Williams works through processes of stitching, layering, and assembly to construct textile form. Her practice investigates how gesture and structure are retained within material, where surface operates as a site of construction rather than decoration.
Molly Williams is a UK-based textile artist working across sculpture and constructed textile form. Based in Shropshire, her practice explores the relationship between movement, the body, and material through hand-built processes that translate gesture into spatial structure.
Working in both two- and three-dimensional forms, Williams develops sculptural textile works that hold references to the body without representing it directly. Informed by an ongoing interest in dance and physical movement, the work investigates how posture, tension, and gesture can be retained within material construction.
Her research draws on historical textile and costume traditions, particularly Ottoman textiles and carpet weaving practices from Turkish and Persian contexts. She is interested in the ways motif, repetition, and structure operate across interconnected textile cultures, where visual languages evolve through local material and cultural traditions. These systems inform an approach to pattern and surface as structural rather than decorative, where repetition functions as a method of construction.
Williams also explores natural dye processes, particularly in relation to felt-based works, alongside the use of found wood, metal, and ceramic elements within sculptural textile forms. Across her practice, stitching, layering, and assembling are used as methods of constructing presence, bodily trace, and spatial tension.
Alongside her studio practice, Williams has extensive experience in the making of clothing and interior textiles, contributing a strong technical understanding of textile construction and material process to her work.
Molly offers a personal service to create bespoke designs for interiors – soft furnishing fabrics, kitchen and bathroom tiles, wall hanging and wall art. Each commission is unique and confidential.
KOGEI Kyoto 2026, Japan (invited, forthcoming)
Invited by a UK-based curator to exhibit new sculptural textile works in a curated international exhibition in Kyoto, Japan. The project situates contemporary textile practice within dialogues between movement, constructed form, and historical craft traditions.
Dictionary – Prism Mile End Gallery London ‘Dictionary’ – May
Any Other Business – Prism Mile End Gallery London
Oswestry
Society of Designer Craftsmen, Bankside Gallery November
Prism Hoxton Arches Gallery, London
Prism Hoxton Arches Gallery, London
Prism at the RBSA Birmingham
Prism Hiscox Centre, London
Prism Mall Galleries, London
Pure Arts
Society of Designer Craftsmen, Mall Galleries London
Crowborough Arts Open Studios
