Studio Me: All Sorts at the Bluecoat

Maja Lorkowska, Exhibitions Editor

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Studio Me: All Sorts

23 June-6 July 2025

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The Bluecoat presents a new display from Studio Me, a development of Blue Room, the gallery’s inclusive arts project for learning disabled and neurodivergent adults. Running since 2008, Blue Room is a long-term programme that regularly organises displays and activities for artists.

Studio Me: All Sorts is a follow-up to a group exhibition at Cass Art in 2022. It gathers a diverse array of works with motifs of nature, pop culture and architecture in various mediums including painting, collage, printing making and pastels.

Exhibiting artists are Laura Aquilina, Alfred Beesley, Tess Gilmartin, Joshua Henderson, Andrew Mellor, William Richardson, Tom Rooney, Ottman Said, Jean Smith, John Steele, Norman Tomlinson, Jane Walsh, and Veronica Watson.

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