Donna Coleman

Donna Coleman is a Leeds based artist, with a practice focused on expressionist drawing. She explores the human condition using her own experiences of anxiety and depression. She experiments with ballpoint pens, graphite, charcoal and oil stick on cardboard and paper, to create visceral images that sit between abstraction and figuration.

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.