Angela Valamanesh graduated from the South Australian School of Art with a Diploma of Design (ceramics) in 1977 and became a tenant potter at Adelaide's Jam Factory. She held solo exhibitions in Australia and Japan, the latter as a result of a Japan-South Australia Cultural Exchange Scheme Travel Grant bestowed in 1989, and has since participated in exhibitions in the United States and New Zealand. In the early 1990s she gained an MA in visual arts from the University of South Australia. She gained an Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 1996 which enabled her to work at the Glasgow School of Art. She has won a number of awards including the 1999 City of Hobart Art Prize for ceramics, and an Arts SA Project Grant in 2000, when she spent some time as Artist in Residence at the Jam Factory. Over the past decade she collaborated with her husband, Hossein Valamanesh (1949-2022), on public art projects including An Gorta Mor, the Great Irish Famine Memorial at the Hyde Park Barracks (1999). In the same period, her solo work has tended toward installations of a delicate, wry and disconcerting nature. She is represented in a number of public collections including the Art Gallery of South Australia.
