Kedisha Coakley

Kedisha Coakley

Bio Selected Works Exhibitions
The Right to Opacity, 2020. Black series
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The Right to Opacity, 2020. Black series
Negritude No.9. 2017- 2020
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Negritude No.9. 2017- 2020
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. Image credit Jules Lister Photography and filmmaking.
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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. Image credit Jules Lister Photography and filmmaking.
Embossed print, 2020
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Embossed print, 2020
I AM HERE series, 2019.
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I AM HERE series, 2019.
Ritual v, 2019
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Ritual v, 2019
Mi waan go a country go look Mango. Image credit Jules Lister Photography and filmmaking.
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Mi waan go a country go look Mango. Image credit Jules Lister Photography and filmmaking.
Ritual series i-v, 2019
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Ritual series i-v, 2019
Mbulu Ngulu, 2022. Image credit Eden Project Cornwall
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Mbulu Ngulu, 2022. Image credit Eden Project Cornwall
I AM HERE series, 2019.
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I AM HERE series, 2019.

Bio

Process, hybridity, and materiality are important strands in my practice. My work begins as a personal investigation of self, childhood memories and ritualistic practices in the lives of Black communities, and what they signify universally in the world.

Kedisha Coakley is a London-born, Sheffield-based artist. Her practice spans sculpture, photography, and printmaking, 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 five artist in the Freelands Foundation artist development programme; Finalist in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021; And the recipient of the Yorkshire Graduate Award 2020. Recent exhibitions include Dutch Flower Painting: Exploring Art in Bloom, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield. Mi waan go a country go look Mango, Bloc Projects, Sheffield. Super Natural, Eden Project, Cornwall. In the Beginning, The Box at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

Selected Works

Bronze specimens from A Still Life in Transit of Pineapple, Cotton, and Breadfruit, with Dhuka, Tulips and further Specimens on Velvet
Breadfruit Afro comb
A Still Life in Transit of Pineapple, Cotton, and Breadfruit, with Dhuka, Tulips and further Specimens on Velvet
Untitled i
In the Beginning
Horticultural Appropriation
Negritude No.8
The Right to Opacity
Ritual: Truth ii.
A Still Life in Transit of Pineapple, Cotton, and Breadfruit, with Dhuka, Tulips and further Specimens on Velvet
The Right to Opacity

Upcoming Exhibitions

Fri 10th Feb - Sun 29th Oct 2023

Hair: Untold Stories

Weston Park Museum, Sheffield

Fri 29th Sep - Sat 2nd Dec 2023

Against Apartheid

KARST, Plymouth

Sat 7th Oct - Sun 7th Jan 2024

Dutch Flowers

The Box, Plymouth
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