Angela Findley, UK

Artist, Author

Angela Findlay who is an Anglo-German artist, blogger, public speaker and author who has spent much of her career teaching art in prisons. Her time behind bars in Germany and later as arts coordinator for the London-based prison charity Koestler Arts informed her research into her own German roots and the intergenerational consequences of unresolved trauma, guilt and shame. For over a decade, she has been lecturing and writing about Germany’s process of working through its Nazi legacy on political, psychological and personal levels and the wider topics of post-war remembrance, resolution and reconciliation. Her first book ‘In my Grandfather’s Shadow’ was published by Penguin Transworld in July 2022. Angela Findlay has a BA in Fine Art, a Diploma in Artistic Therapies specialising in colour and her paintings have been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally.