Image: Laura Wilson, Deep, Deepen, Deepening (2019). Photo: Rui Pignatelli Commissioned by New Geographies and Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery.

Part of this year's Cov Biennial 2025 programme:

Artists Caitlin Kiely (@caitkiely) and Laura Wilson (@wilsonlaurawilson) will share a collaborative, creative response to Coventry Cathedral. Using the site as a starting point for their work, they will guide the audience through the space, beginning at the Chapter House Doors entrance. The session will include Caitlin and Laura sharing their practices, followed by an in-conversation led by CVAN West Midlands director Colette Griffin in the Chapter House. The format of this event has been shaped by the artists through a series of conversations and site visits.

This partnership brings together Caitlin’s deep engagement with place, landscape, and archival material, and Laura’s long-standing interest in craft, materiality, and embodied knowledge. Both artists are committed to processes of excavation through memory, movement, or site-specific research, and share a fascination with how histories are preserved, transmitted, and reimagined.

Caitlin, a Birmingham-based artist and CB25 exhibitor is exploring the construction of Coventry Cathedral through material, process and archival collections. Laura, whose sculptural and performative practice often draws on trades and craft traditions, will bring to the dialogue her own extensive knowledge and experience of material storytelling.

Delivered in partnership by CVAN WM and DASH, this event is part of a series of three public programmes exploring themes of obsession, collecting, and creative connection. Presented as part of Coventry Biennial 2025: Obsessions, Possessions (3 October 2025 – 25 January 2026).

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This collaborative project is generously funded by, and co-commissioned with Warwick Institute of Engagement and Research and Impact Services at University of Warwick.