Mixed media artist 

Exploring the use of art/making with your hands as a form of therapy.

Based in Glasgow, Scotland.


jennycoyyle@gmail.com 
Instagram
Degree Show
GSA documentation journal


CV 




EducationBA (Hons) Interaction Design 2024
The Glasgow School of Art


Employment 
Gallery Assistant
Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art
2024 - 2025

HUB and ASN assistant
Monifieth High School
2018 - 2020

Class Assistant 
Glasgow City College
2025 - present 


ReferralsGillian Graham
Glasgow City College lecturer 
Gillian.Graham@cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk

Paul Maguire
Programme Leader, BA (Hons) Interaction Design
P.Maguire.gsa.ac.uk 




Skills
Welding
Woodwork
Sculpture
Engraving
Ceramics
Printing 
Photography
Film
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Illustrator 
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Processing
Arduino 



Exhibitions
New Designers 2024
Business Design Centre, Islington 2024

Degree Show 2024, The Glasgow School of Art, Reid Building 2024

Dimensions Variable - Work In Progress, Reid Corridor 2024

IxD Open Share 2023, Barnes Building 

IxD Open Share 2022, Barnes Building 

IxD Open Share 2021, Barnes Building 





AwardsCinematography Met Film School, Berlin 
2023


Collaborations
‘Nothing Changes Overnight’, Kyle Angel Leeson, Degree Show DJCAD 2024

Interactive Systems, Glasgow Central Station, Glasgow Central Station Tours 2023

Projection Mapping, Landsec/Glasgow City Council, Buchanan Galleries
2023
                   








Last Updated  17.12.25
JENNY (JEN) COYLE






Swans

Garden Wire, Papermachè, aluminium foilSwans created as part of a stage designed for the band ‘PVC’. Two papermachè swans sat on each side of the stage while aluminium foil bunting was drapped across the stage and reflected the changing stage light colours.



PVC bunting 

aluminium foil, thread.Starry PVC bunting hung along the stage while Cara sang underneath.



Ruchazie Pantry Fundraiser
Hosting art sessions as a class assistant  in supported education at the college to create posters for the Ruchazie Pantry bake sale we held at the reception in Glasgow City College campus.





(You) by my side

Metal, welding, soldering, subwoofer speakers, water, rope, sand


Exploring my struggles with grief, loss, time, memory and home through the process of using making as a form of therapy.

Growing up beside the beach and following the recent loss of my Dad led me to experiment with the theory of water holding memory and in turn becoming a place for me to store and explore my own.

Using metal, this material and process representing longevity and the rusting mirroring the change in time. This has led to metal becoming the piece that holds these bodies of water that contain my memories.





(You) by my side 
Documentation video





(You) by my side (WIP)

Metal, welding, water, light, plaster, iron dust, acetate, mirrorAn interactive water sculpture from metal and rusted plaster that displays distorted memory dialogue but after human interaction with the water returning back to normal conveying the memories will in turn come back to me too.




(You) by my side 
Frame



Living with ADHD, my pal Blair 

A short film I made for a project interviewing Blair about what it’s like living with ADHD.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

I took this film interview into Processing and created a skip by using sound as the trigger.

Imitating how a brain with ADHD can get distracted, disrupt and change topic...