Angela Godfrey
Angela Godfrey is an English sculptor and Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Personal life. Angela Godfrey was born in 1939 in London. She studied fine art at King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne from 1957 to 1961. She then taught at Mid-Warwickshire School of Art from 1962 to 1964. She is married to the artist and landscape painter Alan Burgess. Career and works. Godfrey's work often combines text with form. Her first commission after graduating was from the architect George Mathers, who asked her to make an altar for St Bartholomew's church in  St Albans which he was designing. She has also collaborated with the architect Richard Hurley reordering churches in Hoddesdon, Harrow Weald, Ballyporeen in Co. Tipperary and Maidstone. She has won competitions for her work including for a large street sculpture, "Gilpin's Bell", in Fore Street, Edmonton, London (1994); for a Millennium sculpture for Stow-on-the-Wold and for the River Stort sculpture trail. She is a Trustee of Harlow Art Trust (HAT) a registered charity founded in 1953. HAT commissions and cares for sculpture in Harlow and since 2011 runs the Gibberd Gallery. She was also the initiator  and curator of the Playhouse Gallery, Harlow. Exhibitions. Her work has been featured in a large number of exhibitions including: