CCA Introducing: Kedisha Coakley

04 Apr 24

Artists

Kedisha Coakley

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We're looking forward to handing our Instagram over to Kedisha Coakley, our next CCA Introducing artist, on Thursday 4 April 2024. Throughout the day, Kedisha will give us an insight into her practice.

Kedisha has been nominated by artist Susan Hughes, whose solo exhibition Stones from a Gentle Place ran at CCA this year, until March 2024.

Kedisha Coakley is a London-born, She5ield-based artist of Caribbean descent. Her practice spans sculpture, printmaking, and photography, predominantly casting in bronze, through which she interrogates Black histories and experiences. Investigating the overlooked, she remixes aesthetics, techniques, and cultural references throughout her work.

Kedisha is one of the five artists in the Freeland Foundation artist development programme in She5ield 2022-24; finalist of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021; and the recipient of the Yorkshire Graduate Award 2020. Recent exhibitions include Betwixt, beyond, 2024. Fitzrovia Chapel, London, UK. Dutch Flower Paintings: Exploring Art in Bloom. 2023-24. Millennium Gallery, She5ield, UK and St Luke’s / The Box. Plymouth, UK. Against Apartheid. 2023. Karst, Plymouth, UK. And Mi waan go a country go look mango, 2023. Bloc Projects, She5ield, UK.

Image Credits

Title image: Mi waan go a country go look Mango, 2023. Detail, Wünderkammer, bronze passion fruit, organic oyster shell. Materials: Bronze, organic material, acrylic. Shown at Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK. Photo: Jules Lister Photography & Film making

Image 1: A Still Life in Transit of Pineapple, Cotton, and Breadfruit, with Dhuka, Tulips, and further Specimens on Velvet, 2023. With wallpaper: On the Border of my Peaceful Home, 2023. Materials: Bronze, velvet, pallets, castor wheels, MDF. Wallcovering: Colorado Print to HP PVC Free Pre-Pasted. Shown at Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK. Photo: Jules Lister Photography & Film making.

Image 2: A Still Life in Transit of Pineapple, Cotton, and Breadfruit, with Dhuka, Tulips and further Specimens on Velvet, 2023. With wallpaper: On the Border of my Peaceful Home, 2023. Detail: Dhuka with specimens, pomegranate, lychee, physalis & cotton seed pod. Materials: Bronze, velvet, pallets & MDF. Shown at Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK. Photo: Jules Lister Photography & Film making

Image 3: Mi waan go a country go look Mango, 2023. Detail: Wardian case. Breadfruit Afro combs, coconut & passion fruit shell. Materials: Bronze, organic material. Shown at Karst, Plymouth, UK