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.
SCULPTURED ART
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
RESEARCH AND PRODUCT DESIGN
SURFACE PATTERN DESIGN
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.
Membership
- Prism Art Textiles
- The Society of Designer Craftsmen MSDC
- Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts FRSA
Exhibitions
2026
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
2025
Prism Textiles, Any Other Business – Mile End Gallery, London
Willow Gallery, Oswestry
2024
Society of Designer Craftsmen, Bankside Gallery
2015 – 2019
Prism Hoxton Arches Gallery, London
2015 – 2019
Prism Hoxton Arches Gallery, London
2017
Prism at the RBSA Birmingham
2016
Prism Hiscox Centre, London
2008 – 2014
Prism Mall Galleries, London
2013
Pure Arts
2009 – 2013
Society of Designer Craftsmen, Mall Galleries London
2014 – 2017
Crowborough Arts Open Studios
Publications and interviews
- Textileartist.org
- Feltmatters
- Sussex Life
- Felt Magazine
Qualifications
- Postgraduate Certificate Textiles – Manchester Metropolitan University 2023
- Qualified Teacher QTS – Christchurch at Canterbury University 2009
- BA (Hons) Embroidered Textiles – Middlesex University 2008
Teaching
- Online Workshops – 2019 – current
- Studio workshops – 2016 – current
- Westhope College,Shropshire – 2024
- Felters Fling, USA – 2019
- Beacon Community College, Design & Technology (Textiles) 2009 – 2014
