Donna Coleman
Donna Coleman is a Leeds based artist, with a practice focused on expressionist drawing. She explores the human condition using her own life experiences. She experiments with mixed media on paper, cardboard and wood. Recently she has been experimenting with combining drawing with sculpture, using found materials.
Donna is a member of the Serf Leeds Artist studio.
In 2020, Coleman started an ongoing series of drawings about the effects the global pandemic and lockdowns have had on the public’s mental wellbeing. Many of us have felt scared, isolated and disconnected from each other, causing anxiety, depression and dissociation. She wants the viewer of her work to recognise the shared vulnerability we are all experiencing during these unprecedented times.
Coleman has exhibited her work at Left Bank Leeds, PS Mirabel Gallery, Air Gallery in Manchester and the Mental Health Museum in Wakefield. Her work has also appeared in publications, including Root-ed Zine, based in Liverpool. In 2020 her work was acquired by the Government Art Collection.
Ground Test, Serf Studio – Gloam Gallery Sheffield 2024
Recollections May Vary – Outside In & The Mental Health Museum Wakefield 2022
Art Lab Methodologies – Dean Clough Gallery Halifax 2022
Another Space Within – Outside In Online 2022
This Volatile State – The House of Smalls Online 2021
Leeds Summer Group Show – Online 2021
Featured Artist on Curatorspace – Online 2020
Artwork included in Rooted Zine publication – Liverpool 2019
Obsession at the Asylum Showcase – Open Source Arts 2019
On Selection Panel for Left Bank Leeds Art Prize – 2019
Aire Open 2018 – Aire Gallery Manchester 2018
Left Bank Leeds Art Prize – Leeds 2018
Psycho Artist Book – Broken Grey Wires Manchester 2018
Air Gallery Open Call Exhibition -- Air Gallery Manchester 2017
All in the Mind - Aire Place Studios Leeds 2016
Kirkstall Art Trail -- St Stephens Church Leeds 2016
Spectrum exhibition – PS Mirabel Gallery Manchester 2016
Perceptions – Lamberts Yard Leeds 2015
Highlights exhibition – The Light Leeds 2014
Her Sela Art Exhibition – That Sela Art Thing Leeds 2014
Members exhibition – Mexico Project Space Leeds 2014
Place & Memory – Arts at Trinity Leeds 2013