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 textile artist based in Shropshire, working primarily with wet felted sculpture. Her practice explores how movement and gesture can be held within constructed textile form.
Drawing on a longstanding interest in dance and physical movement, Williams makes sculptural works that reference the body obliquely—capturing posture, tension, and gesture through the process of building and shaping felt. The work considers how bodily trace might be retained not through representation, but through the way material is handled and assembled.
Her research engages with historical textile traditions, particularly Ottoman textiles and carpet weaving practices from Turkish and Persian contexts. She’s interested in how motif, repetition, and structure operate across interconnected textile cultures—where visual languages shift through local material knowledge. These systems inform an approach to pattern as something structural, where repetition becomes a method of constructing form.
Williams works with natural dye processes and incorporates found wood, metal, and ceramic elements within her felted sculptures. Stitching, layering, and assembling function as ways of building presence and spatial tension—translating gesture into three-dimensional structure.
Alongside her studio work, Williams has a background in making clothing and interior textiles, which brings a strong technical understanding of construction and material process to her practice.
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
