Eileen Cooper RA OBE
Eileen Cooper is an artist known for her strong and passionate commitment to figuration.  Originally from the Peak District, Cooper has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Her work is held in many public and private collections including the Tate Gallery; the Arts Council Collection; the British Museum; Manchester Art Gallery; Mima, Middlesborough; New Hall Art Collection, University of Cambridge; the Royal Collection; Victoria & Albert Museum; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Kunsthalle, Nuremberg; Walpole Library, Yale University.

Ooona Grimes
Oona Grimes is a London based artist working with drawing, clay making & film. These disciplines combining to create an alternative and highly personal world.  Her non-linear narratives testify to an obsession with language - the beginnings & ends of it, learning & losing it, slippage & misinterpretation. 

During Grimes’ 2018 Bridget Riley Fellowship at The British School at Rome she segued from thieving Lorenzetti tartans and cartoon detail from Etruscan paintings, to the appropriation of Neorealist cinema. By means of mis-remembered re-enactments, she physically draws herself into the film frame. She graduated from Norwich School of Art with a BA in 1986 & The Slade School of Fine Art 1988. She was a Bridget Riley Fellow at the British School at Rome 2018 & was awarded the Bryan Robertson Award in 2022. Grimes has taught widely at key colleges and universities. She was recently an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, Ruskin School of Art Oxford University & University of the Arts.o be confirmed

Local Artist Representative
Anna Lorimer

Cllr Maggie O'Rourke Adult Section
 Arts and Leisure portfolio holder, Rugby Borough Council.

Cllr Simon Ward Youth Section
Rugby Borough Council Mayor