Coventry Artspace

Coventry Artspace is a charity dedicated to supporting and developing the visual arts in Coventry for the benefit of its citizens.

‘Stories That Made Us’ by Hardish Virk

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  In the late 1980s, the Indian actor and comedian Mehar Mittal visited my family home. I remember my father positioning our new Panasonic Video Camera Recorder a few feet from where Mittal was sitting and started filming. I can remember this famous actor’s face showing some discomfort to a camera pointed at him as […]

Stories That Made Us

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Our Stories That Made Us project is led by Hardish Virk and funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund. The project is inspired by two Coventry collections of South Asian artefacts. The first is Hardish’s own archive, consisting of over 1000 items, including vinyl records, cassettes, minidiscs, CDs, videos, DVDs, reports, books, magazines, posters, newspapers, passports, […]

My Year at Coventry Artspace by Sophie Clausen

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Sophie Clausen worked with Coventry Artspace during Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture as our Lead Producer. Her wealth of talent and skills saw us through the Artist on My Street Project and the roll out of the Artist Development Programme, both of which were a great success. It was a delight working with […]

A visit to the seaside by Xiaohan Wu

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See the Chinese translation of this blog below! Leave all the stress to the sea – in conversation with artist Denise Startin at Arcadia Gallery   My name is Xiaohan, and I am currently studying at Warwick University for an MA in International Cultural Policy and Management. As part of my course I am currently […]

Re-assembling residencies 2020-21

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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 […]

WEIRD VALUE by Janet Tryner

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Warwickshire based artist Janet Tryner has shared with us her experience of attending our Exploring Collections Workshop and what she then went on to create in response to this…   “Back in February I was fortunate to have participated as an artist in a Working with Collections Workshop held by OutsideIn and Coventry Artspace and […]

Blog by Ian Sergeant following the Art of Curation Workshop

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We were thrilled to welcome curator and PhD researcher Ian Sergeant to host the Art of Curation workshop earlier this month. Participants had the opportunity to explore the work of the 1980s BLK Art Group and follow-up with a pop-up exhibition at Arcadia. Here’s Ian’s account on his experience…   What is the story? I […]