Angelita Alves is an award-winning artist and designer. Born in Brazil and of mixed European,
African, and Indigenous heritage, her work is deeply rooted in questions of identity and belonging.
Having lived across North and South America, the Middle East, and Europe, Angelita brings a
distinctly global perspective to her artistic practice. Her multicultural background has shaped
a body of work that explores the tensions of displacement, immigration, and cultural memory.
Angelita studied architecture at the University of Greenwich and the Royal College of Art in
London, and Columbia University in New York. Over a 20-year career, she worked with world-
renowned architects such as Bernard Tschumi and Norman Foster. Though architecture
profoundly influenced her sense of form and structure, she felt an increasing pull toward more
personal forms of expression. This led her to study Fine Art at the Academy of Art University
in San Francisco, eventually returning to her creative roots through textile-based sculpture and
installation.
She is a current Cockpit Arts Awardee, receiving a year of subsidised studio space, business
incubation, and professional coaching, and her work has been exhibited at London Craft Week.
She is rapidly establisihing herself as a leading emerging voice in her field.
Weaving and knotting—an ancestral craft passed down from her father—became her medium of
choice, a tactile language through which she explores loss, miscegenation, and the reclamation
of cultural narratives. Everyday materials are reinterpreted to challenge conventional definitions
of utility and beauty, transforming objects into vessels of memory and meaning.