About Nadia

Nadia Kingsley left her permanent job in 1999 to do a ceramics degree at the University of Wolverhampton at the age of thirty five, where she was lucky enough to be taught by the brick sculptor Gwen Heeney.

After her degree, she continued making brick sculpture at Ibstock, in Cannock, thanks to the philanthropic support of Brian Stead. She exhibited her work in the South of England; the Cotswolds; East Anglia; Birmingham and the West Midlands.

She was then accepted on the equivalent of a module of an M.A.

through a European Social Funding initiative; and under the knowledgeable and enthusiastic tutelage of Irene Brown produced the wedding shoes picture - part of a Fairy Tales series, that was exhibited in Brighton.

Nadia started writing poetry around 2003, and has had several published in small press magazines. She has exhibited ‘Security Blanket’ - a piece of textile art plus poetry, in London. The reply to ‘Security Blanket’ - called ‘If the dead could speak’, has also been published. She has, over the years, performed poems and stories in venues throughout the West Midlands.

She has been placed in several UK writing competitions which has encouraged her greatly.

She is currently under a writing mentor Simon Fletcher (Arts Council funded) and is working hard on discovering how she wants to write, rather than how she feels she ought to write. She is most grateful to him, her writer’s group, Paul Francis, Emma Purshouse and Stella Duffy, but most particularly to Giancarlo, and also her family - for their help and support.