Jasmine Coe is a Wiradjuri-British artist and the creator and curator of Coe Gallery, the UK's First Aboriginal owned gallery, established 2022.

In late 2016, she travelled to Australia for the first time to connect to her Aboriginal heritage and reconnect with her father, Aboriginal activist - Paul Coe, after 20 years apart. Having struggled with race and self-identity growing up, her work now focuses on harmonising internal conflicts that arise from having two lines of heritage which together hold a traumatic history.

“In an attempt to heal self, painting becomes a restorative process whereby the understanding of self-identity is given space to develop, while at the same time the work continues to celebrate the beauty of the natural world.”

Since 2019, Jasmine has exhibited in 36 international exhibitions including the UK, USA and Australia. Jasmine is a member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artist's Co-Operative and exhibits her work in Sydney with them.

In 2022 Jasmine was invited by the Australian Prime Minister to attend King Charles III Coronation as one of the 10 Australian representatives, based on the work Coe Gallery stands for in the UK. Jasmine is also a proud Bridging Histories Ambassador and an Honorary Research Associate at Bristol University.

Jasmine created Coe Gallery, the U.K.’s first Aboriginal owned gallery based in Bristol. Coe Gallery is dedicated to supporting and celebrating Aboriginal artist’s and providing them with fair representation and visibility here in the UK. Coe Gallery takes its name in honour of Jasmine’s father’s family.

Talks and Public Commissions: 

Bridging Histories Summer School Lecture and Workshop 2024, University of Bristol

Bridging Histories Summer School Lecture and Workshop 2023, University of Bristol

The M Shed and Bristol Museum, Winter Lecture, January 2023 (https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/m-shed/whats-on/winter-lecture-stories-of-connection-jasmine-coe-coe-gallery/)

Border Crossings – Origins Festival Director Michael Walling commissioned the design of a plaque for Dover beach that commemorates a recent historical event where Paul Coe and Uncle Cecil Patten came over to England in 1976, rowed ashore in a boat and planted the Aboriginal Flag, ‘claiming England as Aboriginal Land’. This was to highlight the untruths of the terra nullius claim meaning that Australia was uninhabited land when the British arrived. The commissioning of this artwork is now an official part of the UK/Australia Season 2021/22 of cultural exchange and is supported by the Arts Council. (https://ukaustraliaseason.com/event/dover-beach-plaque/)

NSW Government Natural Resources Commission website Artwork licenced by (https://www.nrc.nsw.gov.au/aboriginal)

CSIRO (The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Artwork licenced for internal office mural

Exhibitions: 

Boomalli Aboriginal Arts Co-Operative, Power Up Festival, White Bay Power Station 2024

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, Enliven Fuse (group show) 2024

Boomalli Aboriginal Arts Co-Operative, Affordable Art Fair Sydney 2024

Boomalli Aboriginal Arts Co-Operative, Rokt NAIDOC Exhibition 2024

Coe Gallery 'Summer Exhibition: Country' 16 July.- 8 Aug 2024

Coe Gallery NAIDOC exhibition, Australia House 8 - 10 July 2024

Coe Gallery 'International Women's Day' Australia House 8 March 2024

Coe Gallery 'Winter Exhibition' 21 Nov - 7 Dec 2023

Coe Gallery, First Nations Fashion Show & Aboriginal Art Exhibition, Australia House, 19 September 2023

Coe Gallery 'Summer Exhibition' 11 July - 3 August 2023

Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, 11 - 14 May 2023

Boomalli Aboriginal Arts Co-Operative, St Vincent’s Hospital Exhibition 2023

Boomalli Aboriginal Arts Co-Operative, Chris O’Brien Lifehouse Exhibition 2023

International Women's Day, Australia House, 8 March 2023

Coe Gallery 'Language of The Earth' 6 - 22 December 2022

Affordable Art Fair Battersea, 20 - 23 Oct 2022

Coe Gallery 'Our Stories, Our Journey' 12 - 28 July 2022

The Rodd, Sidney Nolan Trust – Summer exhibition  2022

Rainmaker Gallery ‘Winter 2021’ Nov 2021 – January 2021

Rainmaker Gallery ‘Birthright’ 15 Sept – 5 Nov 2021

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative, ‘Evaporate’ 10 June – 1 Aug 2021

Aboriginal Art UK, ‘TJUKURPA’ 19 April – 12 May 2021

TLC Speech Pathology x Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative, Opening exhibition, 28 April – 1 June 2021

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative x Broadway Shopping Centre Sydney, ‘NAIDOC Week’ 2 Nov – 30 Nov 2020

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative ‘InVISIBLE’ 10 Sept – 16 Oct 2020

The Peisley Street Gallery, ‘Off The Wall’ 5 Dec (2019) – 26 Jan 2020

Hobiennale, Tasmania 22 Nov – 14 Dec 2019

Five3 Gallery ‘Cadeaux D’Art’ 5 – 31 Dec (USA) 2019

Aboriginal Art UK ‘My Country’ 5 Oct – 2 Nov 2019

Fresh Contemporary Art Fair, 19-22 Sept 2019

Aboriginal Art UK & Stroud Festival ‘Water Around The World’ 31 Aug – 22 Sept 2019

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative ‘Healing ourselves, healing our country’ 28 Aug – 27 Oct 2019

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative ‘Voice, Treaty, Truth’ 13 June – 28 July 2019

Hall & Willcox Exhibition, Sydney, May 2019

Aboriginal Art UK ‘Tiddas’ 11 May – 22 June 2019

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative ‘Warriors for the Environment’ 11 April – 2 June 2019