Artists A-Z
Every creative featured here has helped shape the story of Generator through exhibition, performance, collaboration, or creative contribution. This archive celebrates the people, practices, and perspectives that have moved through our space - an evolving collection of creatives who have exhibited, performed, and been featured as part of the Generator community.
Jemma Bagley
Jemma Bagley is an East Midlands based artist and arts facilitator. Her specialism is working with adults to nurture wellbeing through creativity
Purnima Chavda
Purnima Chavda works across printmaking, drawing and textiles, often drawing on family photographs, personal history and the saree as a motif.
Maggie Cooper
After leaving school, Cooper studied Basketmaking at Bournville College of Art. Her career has evolved through longstanding interests in the natural world, art and social history, using traditional basketmaking techniques to explore these themes. Her work has brought forgotten forms back to life, including wattle and daub beehives, fish traps and model dwelling places, alongside functional baskets.
Loughborough Foundation in Art & Design students
This collection of cyanotypes was created by Loughborough University Foundation in Art & Design students, coordinated by Dr James Chantry. He is an artist, writer and academic who has published and exhibited internationally.
Beth Lukockyj
Beth Lukockyj is a multimedia artist working primarily with textiles. Her practice draws from traditional craft techniques, including weaving and stitching, to explore how emotion and memory are embedded in material.
Hannah Money
Hannah is an educator and passionate knitter based in Derbyshire. Sustainability is central to both her creative practice and her teaching on the Art and Design Foundation course.
Donna Sharmaine
Donna Sharmaine Juval Gatdula is a multimedia disabled performance based artist exploring the nuances of her being a second generation queer Filipina and the impacts of it on her spiritual and physical identity
Selene States
Selene States is a visual artist and educator working across textiles, fashion, and fine art. She explores how historical patterns, images, and crafts carry across time and cultures.
Raisa Watkiss
Raisa Watkiss is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptual practice explores liminality, nostalgia, and the complexities of mental illness, trauma, shame and guilt. Drawing from personal experiences with anxiety and compulsive ritualistic behaviours, her work examines the often invisible realities of psychological distress through ceramics, performance and analogue film, particularly Super 8 and 8mm.