Courtenay Welcome
b. 1997, West Bromwich, Birmingham UK
Experience
[Current] Multistory X WSOA Artist in Residence
Accounting in the Black Imagination Artist in Residence - MAIA
West Midlands Open Residency Award Winner - The New Art Gallery Walsall
We are Birmingham Residency - We Don’t Settle x Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 2022
Associate Artist at YARD Art House
Black Hole Club Cohort Member
The Same Track : Panel Discussion - East Side Projects
Cut, Copy, Remix II - Black Hole Club x Birmingham Museum 2022
Parts of Self: Residency - HOME by Ronan Mckenzie x COB Gallery
Podcast Producer - Interwave
KASAVA x Control Shift Network
Rising Arts Agency’s - BEIT Leadership Cohort 2020
Spike Island Fellow 2019-2020
Podcast producer : Uncomfortable Truths - Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Project manager and Workshop Coordinator , Black History Month - Bower Ashton, UWE
Event manager and Curator for ‘___in the___with a ___’
Event manager and Curator for exhibition ‘LADY LAZARUS'
Studio Holder at Stryx
Studio Holder and Maker at STEAMhouse
[Current] Multistory X WSOA Artist in Residence
Accounting in the Black Imagination Artist in Residence - MAIA
West Midlands Open Residency Award Winner - The New Art Gallery Walsall
We are Birmingham Residency - We Don’t Settle x Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 2022
Associate Artist at YARD Art House
Black Hole Club Cohort Member
The Same Track : Panel Discussion - East Side Projects
Cut, Copy, Remix II - Black Hole Club x Birmingham Museum 2022
Parts of Self: Residency - HOME by Ronan Mckenzie x COB Gallery
Podcast Producer - Interwave
KASAVA x Control Shift Network
Rising Arts Agency’s - BEIT Leadership Cohort 2020
Spike Island Fellow 2019-2020
Podcast producer : Uncomfortable Truths - Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Project manager and Workshop Coordinator , Black History Month - Bower Ashton, UWE
Event manager and Curator for ‘___in the___with a ___’
Event manager and Curator for exhibition ‘LADY LAZARUS'
Studio Holder at Stryx
Studio Holder and Maker at STEAMhouse
Education
2016 - 2019 First Class BA (Hons) Fine Art and Visual Culture University of the West of England, UK
2015 - 2016 Foundation degree in Art and Design Walsall College
2013 – 2015 A-levels George Salters Collegiate Academy.
Group Exhibitions
2024 Summer Camp, Eastside Projects - Birmingham
2024 Cosmic Modelling, Vivid Projects - Birmingham
2023 Flares in the Dark Room, TWG - London
2023 Accounting in the Black Imagination, YARD -Birmingham
2023 Studio Holders Show, Stryx - Birmingham
2022 Staying with the Trouble, Vivid Projects - Birmingham
2022 Cut Copy Remix II, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
2022 Dis-Embodied Burdens, Cooke Latham Gallery - London
2022 Cut, Copy, Remix II, Vivid Projects - Birmingham
2022 WestMindlands Open - The New Art Gallery Walsall
2021 Collective Processes , Gucci Circolo - London
2021 Scratching the Surface , Tate and Lyle Factory - London
2021 Parts of Self , HOME by Ronan Mckenzie , Online
2021 Parts of Self , COB Gallery London
2020 Re-Designing Taboo , Online
2020 Photo Voice , Royal West of England - Bristol
2019 Uncomfortable Truths , Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
2019 Agents of Change , Arnolfini - Bristol
2019 Dark Matter, Spike Island - Bristol
2019 Under My Skin, Spike Island - Bristol
2019 Why Are We Not Here , Test Space - Bristol
2018 RITUAL, Spike Island - Bristol
2018 ___in the___with a___, Hotwells - Bristol
2018 Spike Open, Spike Island - Bristol
2018 Please Come In And Leave, Centre Space- Bristol
2018 LADY LAZARUS, The Crypt - Bristol
2017 MOUTHWASH, The Vestibles - Bristol
2017 ACE, Arnolfini - Bristol
2017 Flesh, The Crypt - Bristol
2017 CRASH TEST, Spike Island - Bristol
2016 Communal Crisis, Spike Island - Bristol
2016 AF Spring, Old square - Walsall
2016 A&D - Walsall
2016 - 2019 First Class BA (Hons) Fine Art and Visual Culture University of the West of England, UK
2015 - 2016 Foundation degree in Art and Design Walsall College
2013 – 2015 A-levels George Salters Collegiate Academy.
Group Exhibitions
2024 Summer Camp, Eastside Projects - Birmingham
2024 Cosmic Modelling, Vivid Projects - Birmingham
2023 Flares in the Dark Room, TWG - London
2023 Accounting in the Black Imagination, YARD -Birmingham
2023 Studio Holders Show, Stryx - Birmingham
2022 Staying with the Trouble, Vivid Projects - Birmingham
2022 Cut Copy Remix II, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
2022 Dis-Embodied Burdens, Cooke Latham Gallery - London
2022 Cut, Copy, Remix II, Vivid Projects - Birmingham
2022 WestMindlands Open - The New Art Gallery Walsall
2021 Collective Processes , Gucci Circolo - London
2021 Scratching the Surface , Tate and Lyle Factory - London
2021 Parts of Self , HOME by Ronan Mckenzie , Online
2021 Parts of Self , COB Gallery London
2020 Re-Designing Taboo , Online
2020 Photo Voice , Royal West of England - Bristol
2019 Uncomfortable Truths , Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
2019 Agents of Change , Arnolfini - Bristol
2019 Dark Matter, Spike Island - Bristol
2019 Under My Skin, Spike Island - Bristol
2019 Why Are We Not Here , Test Space - Bristol
2018 RITUAL, Spike Island - Bristol
2018 ___in the___with a___, Hotwells - Bristol
2018 Spike Open, Spike Island - Bristol
2018 Please Come In And Leave, Centre Space- Bristol
2018 LADY LAZARUS, The Crypt - Bristol
2017 MOUTHWASH, The Vestibles - Bristol
2017 ACE, Arnolfini - Bristol
2017 Flesh, The Crypt - Bristol
2017 CRASH TEST, Spike Island - Bristol
2016 Communal Crisis, Spike Island - Bristol
2016 AF Spring, Old square - Walsall
2016 A&D - Walsall