Jemma Bagley

Jemma Bagley is an East Midlands based artist and arts facilitator. Her specialism is working with adults to nurture wellbeing through creativity. She has over 30 years of experience and has worked with the NHS, Loughborough Wellbeing Centre and is a regional facilitator for Outside In. She is also a volunteer at Studio At 17 and The Tangent gallery, a project based in Loughborough that provides a studio space and exhibiting opportunities for adults with long term and enduring mental ill health.

She utilises drawing, collage, printmaking, and textiles in her socially engaged practice and centres co-production, agency and inclusion in her approach. Jemma’s own creative practice explores themes of connection and belonging which can appear as landscapes and she also writes short stories based on autobiography and overheard conversations and she also makes Zines. 

Selected Works

Ribbon Banner, 2026
print on fabric
Exhibited in Our Very Fabric

The motifs used on these co-produced banners were created during workshops at Loughborough Wellbeing Centre. The Creative Café, Stitching Well groups and

the LGBTQ+ youth club all took part. Inspired by past activities in the Generator building, its links to local industry and creative practice, including car mechanics, studio pottery, life drawing, dressmaking, basketry and photography, participants drew items from still life and from photographs. 

These were done onto painted papers using coloured pencils and through dressmaker’s carbon paper. They also took impressions using plasticine from items like baskets and printed them with ink pads to form patterns. Images of items were scored into Tetra Pak plates which were then printed with Prussian Blue intaglio ink. The colour palette used throughout, has been carefully chosen to reflect the building, both past and present. The resulting images were scanned and printed digitally onto canvas fabric which was then cut and stitched into the finished banners