Courteney Woollands
Courteney Woollands is a fine art graduate based in Leeds, UK whose practice explores themes of sexuality, identity, and the darker facets of the human condition. Drawing inspiration from personal experience and pop culture, her work often blends psychological tension with visual intensity. Deeply influenced by artists such as Ken Currie and Francis Bacon, Courteney embraces the unsettling and the grotesque, using distorted figures and atmospheric high contrast compositions to provoke emotional response and reflection. Horror, both cinematic and symbolic, plays a key role in her creative process, allowing her to challenge traditional beauty and confront taboos surrounding the body and desire. Her work pays homage to these influences while also carving out a distinct voice rooted in vulnerability and defiance. Through painting and mixed media, she invites viewers into a space where discomfort meets curiosity, and where questions of sexuality and self are laid bare without apology.
​
​
I want to thank a longtime late friend of mine and fellow artist that showed me endless support for the 8 years I got to have him in my life, Thank You Matthew D'Abate and may you rest well. You are an endless loss to the world. Below are links to a few of his works.
https://matthewdabate.medium.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/nyregion/the-anonymous-literary-salon-in-a-brooklyn-bar.html
https://www.youtube.com/@killthecatradio/videos
Exhibitions
Future exhibitions TBA
​
PAST
​
Pandoras box alternative art exhibition and fundraiser by BONK Leeds, UK 2024
​
The Bone Down artists zine Leeds, UK 2023
​
Open art gallery exhibition Halifax 2023
​
New college pontefract foundation art exhibition 2022
​
Ink & Stitch issue 06
Los Angeles, California 2021
​
Spoken Word Scratch Night volume 2 Paris, France 2020
Royal society british artists exhibition Mall Galleries London, UK 2017​​​​​
​
LINKS
​
​
https://www.flipsnack.com/inkandstitchmag/ink-stitch-issue-06.html
​