(1973 - )
Having started studies in textile design, Donna Coleman set her practice aside due to her mental health, but reconnected with painting around 2010 as a means to express her experienced with depression. With the support of Inkwell Arts in Leeds, her work was published online with the charity Outside In, leading to display opportunities with Arts and Minds, another Leeds-based network that promotes mental wellbeing through creativity. In 2013, she was selected for the award-winning mentoring project ‘Place & Memory’, part of Love Arts Leeds Festival. Her first solo exhibition ‘The Screen Will Not Fill The Void’ opens at Basement Arts Project, Leeds (June 2021), accompanied by a publication. Her work has been included in group shows at The Light Gallery, Leeds (2013); Leeds Art Gallery (2015); PS Mirabel Gallery, Manchester (2016); Air Gallery, Manchester (2017, 2018); and Open Source Arts, Leeds (2019). She was on the selection panel for The Left Bank Leeds Art Prize in 2019.
