Ciao! Shwmae!
I am Anna-Amalia Coviello, a queer, Anglo-Italian multidisciplinary artist and facilitator, founder of Well Wagon and graduate of BA (Hons) Creative and Therapeutic Arts.
My work lives at the intersection of creativity, community, and care.
I engage with figurative painting, bright murals, crafts, up-cycling, creative writing, installation, movement, performance and deliver therapeutic workshops in both Cardiff (UK) and Bologna (IT).
About my workshop practice
I founded Well Wagon, a therapeutic art space on wheels, to bring art-based healing directly to the people and places that need it most.
I work with a wide range of communities — from LGBTQIA+ groups, D/deaf participants, and neurodivergent individuals, to people living with dementia, families accessing mental health services, young people in pupil referral units, and children with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
My approach is person-centred, trauma informed, and rooted in social engagement, creating spaces where self-expression, connection, and transformation can flourish.
Through painting, illustration, murals, installation, poetry, and somatic movement, I help people explore their creativity, tell their stories, and see themselves reflected in the spaces they inhabit.
Whether I’m facilitating a mindful workshop, co-creating public art, or supporting a community project, my aim is always the same: to amplify voices, nurture resilience, and make art a tool for collective wellbeing.
About my art practice
Within my art practice I tackle topics such as sexuality, identity, mental health challenges, displacement and overall the human condition. The aim is to share publicly themes that are unspoken and to find a cathartic release in this process.
As a socially engaged creative practitioner, I value art that challenges perception and self belief, shares power with all stakeholders and empowers through process rather than outcome.
My feminist, working class lens as protest is integrated in all elements of rebuilding oneself through the DIY aesthetics of up-cycling.
I find meaning in providing creative experiences to the community, my work seeks a healing process and feeds it through personal expression and community collaboration.
I see myself as an artist of provocation, expression, communication and play with societal constructs.
I share power from me, the materials and the people I meet; through play I encourage challenging perception and self-belief. Consequently, this generates the necessary dialogue to explore personal experience as well as wider community discourse by addressing the need to be heard.