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A wonderful evening at Arcadia Gallery on Tuesday

A wonderful evening at Arcadia Gallery on Tuesday for the opening of "Multiplicity of Us" curated by @vmelissandre for their Summer Residency with us for an evening of art, poetry, great food and great company.

Thanks to all who joined us.

Open 11am - 5pm daily until 15th August.

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MULTIPLICITY OF US Arcadia Gallery 27th July - 1

MULTIPLICITY OF US

Arcadia Gallery

27th July - 15th August 2021 11:00 - 17:00

Featuring with @lorainemponela

,@ijeartist4764, @spacegatearchive, Gloria Adusu, @ryancl_, @ayesha_jones, and @vmelissandre.

Afro-descendant artists connected by Coventry present work collectively for the first time at Arcadia Gallery. Celebrating the infra-resonance of their labour, the exhibition echoes multiplicity, pluriversality, and commensality. This intervention is about abundance, love, solidarity, and justice, it is about the pleasure of being nearby one another and to allow our artworks to enter conversations on the frontline of diasporic revolutions.

The exhibition is self-organised by the artists involved as part of melissandre varin seasonal residencies with Coventry Artspace funded by Arts Council England, and Coventry City Council.

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Gloria Adusu has shared with us an insight into he

Gloria Adusu has shared with us an insight into her creative practice ahead of @vmelissandre's summer residency "Multiplicity Of Us" which opens in Arcadia at 11am Tues 27th July...

Originally from Ghana, I live in Coventry, I have been in the UK for 17 years now. Mother of 4, I live with the last one. I am very active in Coventry, and volunteer with Carriers of Hope https://carriersofhope.org.uk/, I am a member of CARAG @caragcoventry https://www.carag.ico.uk , and volunteer to make meals for those in need.

I am an artist. I write short stories, poems and songs, dance and drum.

When the pandemic started, there was a need to make face masks to protect each other. I started to make them for my household. I remember that I first practiced with hand towels and from there bought African print fabrics to help community groups, organisations, and individuals in Coventry, Liverpool, London, and Birmingham. It has become a way for me to support people in the community. I now work with my brother on this project and we make unique pieces including face masks but also fans and slippers.

I am passionate and excited to take part in multiplicity of us. All of us coming together exhibiting the gifts we have is a blessing and I am grateful to be part of it.

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We’re thrilled to announce an Artist Commission

We’re thrilled to announce an Artist Commission Opportunity in partnership with @covbiennial!

The Utility Room is a new kind of space for flexible working, meeting and other activities related to the development of artistic practice in the city, that is designed to encourage artists to self-organise.

This new space, run by Coventry Artspace, will launch during Coventry Biennial 2021 and will be available by advanced booking to all members of their Artist Listings.

We are inviting proposals from local artists to support the redevelopment of this space ahead of opening in October 2021. The successful artist might produce an item of furniture, a wall drawing, or a fixture or fitting that will make the room both more functional and inspirational for future users.

Coventry Biennial and Coventry Artspace are offering a total of £1,000 for this project.

The deadline for proposals is: Monday 23th August 2021 at 9am

(See the link in our bio for further details on how to apply).

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Ayesha Jones @ayesha_jones is another artist who w

Ayesha Jones @ayesha_jones is another artist who will be joining melissandre varin @vmelissandre for their Summer Residency at Arcadia Gallery.

Ayesha is a dual heritage, neurodiverse, visual artist. She uses photography and film to interrogate social structures and belief systems, through personal narratives. Her autobiographical project, which explores disability, female sexuality and family lineage, was one of 30 projects to receive an international award from Magnum Photos.

Ayesha has recently received an award from Unlimited and City of Culture 2021, for her latest project ‘Motherland’. She explores the relationship between art and spirituality and how ritual can be used as a tool to heal outdated and toxic social structures. Motherland is also an exploration of her own maternal lineage and how our bodies hold the memories and experiences of our ancestors. This exploration is part of Ayesha’s ongoing journey towards understanding more about the dialogue of cosmic energies, that is expressed through all of us, in unique ways.

About being part of Multiplicity of us.

I love that we have been given a blank canvas and the space to create, be ourselves and express honestly, without an agenda behind it. I am looking forward to being able to explore again, to test out new ideas and approaches and feeling supported and encouraged in the process.

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We currently have a studio available at Eaton Hous

We currently have a studio available at Eaton House for short-term hire until 5th September 2021.

❇Cost £30 per week

❇Minimum booking is 1 week – maximum 3 weeks.

❇Includes WiFi access

Email space@coventry-artspace.co.uk

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Multiplicity of Us

July 27 @ 11:00 am - August 15 @ 5:00 pm
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August 2 @ 10:00 am - August 4 @ 5:00 pm
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August 7 @ 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm

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