Lexi Zelda Stevens
Artist, Producer and Artist Coach Lexi Zelda Stevens offers low cost one-to-one and group coaching sessions for artists and creative people working in the arts, and consultancy for arts organisations. In 2020 she worked with over 70 individual artists, and two organisations Green Man Trust and TURF Projects, Croydon. She is a mentor for UAL: University of the Arts London.
Her experience comes from working across the arts, including visual arts, dance and performance, music, independent festivals including, for organisations like OneDanceUK, Jerwood Arts, Secret Garden Party, Glastonbury, Wilderness, Glade and some of London’s large-scale public events like London Mela and Lewisham People’s Day. As a grant assessor she has worked in performing arts with Jerwood Arts and in music with PRS Foundation. Lexi is also Visual Arts Producer for Green Man festival in Wales, where she designed and set up the Visual Arts programme in 2016. Since then Green Man has commissioned 10 new temporary outdoor art works for audiences of 20,000 each year. Supported by Green Man Trust and Arts Council Wales, artist development sits at the heart of the programme, Lexi works with commissioned artists over a 12-month period, and runs an artist residency over the festival weekend. It is the only programme of its kind in the UK.
In her other life Lexi maintains a practice as a visual artist, making sculpture, installation, images, dance; working collaboratively and on a large-scale, often outside the gallery context. Lexi has been based in Hackney Wick for eight years at Stour Space and lives in Hackney.
Helping artists make work- www.lexizeldastevens.com
Art practice- www.alexiszeldastevens.com