We’re delighted to report that Janet has now been able to return to her practice and her studio and we are in the process of planning her exhibition for February 2021. Due to Covid-19 our current graduate resident Janet Tryner was forced to pause her residency. This and our own work to manage the impact […]

Artist On My Street is a Coventry Artspace led project through which we work in collaboration with local community organisations to bring artists and artwork to local communities. The project was initially developed as part of Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture. Find out more here.   Images by Trevor Price//Marianne White/Justina Mulvaney Following an […]

* annotations on multiplicity of us by melissandre varin Between 2021 and 2022 artist melissandre varin completed 4 artist residencies in Arcadia Gallery, during which they invited artists and community members into the space to share art, culture, food, creative thoughts, actions, conversation and friendship. Collected here are writings and images produced during and after […]

Artist On My Street is a Coventry Artspace led project through which we work in collaboration with local community organisations to bring artists and artwork to local communities. The project was developed as part of Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture. Find out more here. Images by Andrea Mbarushimana A partnership project with Foleshill […]

As 2022 draws to a close, we’ve taken the opportunity to reflect on some of our highlights of our contribution to Coventry’s year of UK City of Culture. We have looked back on the exhibitions that took place at Arcadia and the projects that have seen us to the end of 2022. We have many […]

Context by Coventry Artspace In Autumn 2020, emerging artist melisandre varin was awarded the Covid Artist in Action Award, providing free use of Arcadia Gallery as a residency space. Alongside this they were also selected as the first ‘Featured Artist’ on the new Outside In Midlands Hub. Combining the benefits of both, melissandre worked on […]

  Between Summer 2021 and Summer 2022 Coventry Artspace provided an innovative programme of online and in-person courses and events, led by experienced professionals in the field and responding directly to our research on artist development needs published in early 2021. Opportunities included:   Short workshops online (2 – 4hrs) pay what you can: Funding […]

At the end of 2020 we carried out some reasearch on Artist Development needs. This work was kindly funded by Coventry City of Culture Trust. We wanted the research to support us with designing a programme of development that would build on our previous work with The Art of Coventry, supporting artists to engage with […]

We are delighted to launch #ArtspaceWindows as part of the The Make it West Midlands Midsummer Festival. While we are unable to open our exhibition spaces we are inviting our Artist Listings artists to use the windows at our city centre spaces, The Row and Arcadia, to show their work and bring some creativity to […]

We are delighted to be supporting this latest project from the wonderful Shoot Festival, who have developed a rapid response to the current crisis – to find, support and celebrate independent artists in Coventry and Warwickshire. Local artists are asked to respond to the theme ‘imagine’ and create a piece of visual/digital art which will […]