Join us to hear artist Kedisha Coakley as she shares insights from her research into Ronald Moody, highlighting connections between their practices.
Coakley will be in conversation with Jelena Sofronijevic, producer of the EMPIRE LINES podcast, curator, writer, and researcher.
Listen as they discuss some of the key themes in the Ronald Moody: Sculpting Lives exhibition, including both artists’ shared interest in objects from Ancient Egypt, works in collections local to Wakefield, and look forward to Kedisha’s exhibitions in Sheffield and beyond.
This talk will be live recorded and released on the EMPIRE LINES podcast.
Biographies
Jelena Sofronijevic
Jelena Sofronijevic (@empirelinespodcast) is a producer, curator, writer, and researcher based in London. Their curatorial projects include Invasion Ecology (2024) and EMPIRE LINES a podcast which uncovers the unexpected flows of empires through art. Jelena works at the intersections of cultural history, politics, and the arts, highlighting continuities over time, and seeks to make complex ideas accessible, not simple.
Kedisha Coakley
Sheffield-based artist Kedisha Coakley’s (b.1982, London) practice spans sculpture, photography, predominantly printmaking with braided hair, and casting in bronze, through which she interrogates Black histories and experiences.
Coakley’s 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. A timely expression of Black identity, she investigates the overlooked by remixing aesthetics, techniques and cultural references throughout her work.
Coakley was selected as one of five Platform 22 artists between 2022 and ’24, a Freelands Foundation artist development programme overseen by Site Gallery, Sheffield. She was the recipient of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park Yorkshire Graduate Award 2020 and was part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021.
