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📷 Our final 'Photographing your Artwork' with @

📷 Our final 'Photographing your Artwork' with @surreal7 Workshop is taking place at Arcadia on Monday 30th May, 4-7pm.📷

Artists will be able to bring a piece of artwork along which will be professionally photographed during the workshop and will be able to familiarise themselves with the Arcadia space and equipment available to hire for follow-up photo shoots.

Presenting and promoting your art practice effectively often depends on good images; this workshop looks at using professional equipment and lighting as well as creating the right backdrop to capture your work at its best.

✴See link in bio to book your place.✴

#photography #photographyworkshop #photographingart #visualart #documentingart #documentingvisualart #artistportfolio

Hardish Virk - Stories that made us Friday 20th M

Hardish Virk - Stories that made us

Friday 20th May

1 - 3pm, Eaton House

We are so delighted to have received a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund @heritagefunduk to support the first phase of our project with Hardish Virk, 'Stories That Made Us'. This funding will allow us to catalogue at least 1000 items of Hardish's archive of south Asian artefacts and create documentation and events to promote it, including two small artist commissions and a short video. Hardish's archive was the inspiration for the current exhibition at Arcadia - Traversing.

THIS FRI Hardish Virk @deesh_creates invites participants to his archive of South Asian artefacts at Eaton House. Following the talk he will lead the participants a short walk to Arcadia Gallery in City Arcade to speak to some of the artists showing work in Traversing, the current exhibition which was created in response to the archive.

Born in Coventry to parents Jasvir Kang and Bhajan Birk, Hardish is a DJ, artist and activist. Passionate about access to Art, he has been a communications and audience development consultant for many years, working across the UK and in Europe.

#storiesthatmadeus #virkcollection #hardishvirk #southasianartefacts #southasianartist #southasianculture #coventryartspace #thisiscoventry

Traversing Join us for the opening night on Frida

Traversing

Join us for the opening night on Friday 13th May 6-8pm.

Exhibition then open 14th - 21st May 11 - 4pm.

‘The greatest journeys are the ones that bring you home’ – Jhumpa Lahiri

Migration is not a linear journey, we often traverse back and forth through multiple landscapes, identities and culture. Traversing offers a unique perspective into 5 creative’s own journeys through various forms of art making.

Ana Jesus @anajeez_ opens a window into Madeiran culture through playful and colourful illustration

Gayatri Pasricha @guy3designs invites you to explore and play, traversing through linear histories of south Asians through a graphic floor based work.

Sharan K Bansal’s @skb.contemporaryart work documents and abstracts the ways in which learnings, cultural practices and skills travel across the border from one generation to another.

Shorna’s @oirabot_arts realistic painting allows you to travel through a dreamy, colourful Bengal through her depiction of traditional instruments.

Vitesh Vithlani @urbanaura offers an immersive experience of a Tuk Tuk ride through the bustling streets of Jaipur with vivid sites, sounds and humour.

Together these 5 creatives invite you to their space, an open invitation to explore their cultures, to play, ride, learn, watch and imagine with them.

This group show has been developed by the participants of an intensive Coventry Artspace Art of Curation workshop facilitated by Roo Dhissou @roodhissou and supported by Hardish Virk @deesh_creates. The work produced has been inspired by Hardish Virk’s archive of South Asian artefacts. It is funded by Arts Council England.

This group show has been developed by the participants of an intensive Coventry Artspace Art of Curation workshop facilitated by Roo Dhissou and supported by Hardish Virk. The work produced has been inspired by Hardish Virk’s archive of South Asian artefacts. It is funded by Arts Council England.

#traversing #artexhibition #virkcollection #artofcuration #visualarts #coventryartists #coventryartspace #arcadiagallery #cityofculture2021 #thisiscoventry

The impressive The British Police Symphony Orchest

The impressive The British Police Symphony Orchestra who played a brilliant, Coventry inspired programme at Coventry Cathedral @coventry_cathedral - including Ghost Town as you've never heard it before (arrangement by Harvey Brough)!

Themes of hope, peace, reconciliation and diversity. All proceeds to local charities Coventry Music Trust and Coventry Artspace. Huge thanks for supporting Coventry Artists!

#coventrycathedral #britishpolicesymphonyorchestra #orchestra #coventrymusictrust #coventryartspace

Join artist Roo Dhissou @roodhissou at for a curat

Join artist Roo Dhissou @roodhissou at for a curator talk at Arcadia Wednesday 18th May.

6 - 7:30pm

Roo will talk about her own journey as an artist with a particular focus on her experiences of curation.

Roo will then open up to artists who exhibited within the show Traversing as part of the Art Of Curation series, developed by Artspace Coventry and supported by Hardish Virk and the Virk Collection Archive.

The talk will be at Arcadia Gallery and everyone is welcome!

See link in bio to book your place on the talk!

#curator #curatortalk #coventrycurator #coventry #cityofculture #ukcityofculture #theartofcuration #coventryartspace #arcadiagallery #virkcollection #Traversing

Thrilled to welcome Lord Mayor of Coventry to Arca

Thrilled to welcome Lord Mayor of Coventry to Arcadia today. He came along to view 'Moments of Broken Promises' by @snodink for @shootfestival.

Exhibition closes this Saturday.

#shootfestival #shootfestivalcoventry #lordmayorcoventry #coventry #ThisIsCoventry #coventry2021 #cityofculture2021

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Traversing Exhibition

May 14 @ 12:00 pm - May 21 @ 4:00 pm
Hardish Virk – Stories That Made Us

May 20 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Photographing Your Artwork

May 30 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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