Coventry Artspace

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

Graduates-in-residence February Blogspot

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Here are our graduate artists-in-residence latest reflections on the creative practice during their residencies with us…   “I am, yet what I am no-one cares or knows” (John Clare) by Helen Kilby-Nelson   I came across the poem, ‘I Am’ some years ago when I was going through a particularly bad period of mental health […]

Graduates-in-residence January blogspot

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Our graduate artists-in-residence Helen and Adam are well into their residency now, and it has been exciting to hear their ideas growing and developing over the past few months. Take a read as both reflect on how they have got to point where they now are with their creative practice…   The Praxis of Memoria: […]

Lewis Spencer’s trip to Portugal!

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Last year we awarded Coventry artist Lewis Spencer a one-off “Go and See Bursary” to support his development as an artist and curator. He used this to fund a trip to Portugal. In this blog post he’s summed up all that happened during his trip: Lisbon, Portugal is one of Europe’s most desired location to […]

SHOOT Festival 2019

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Artspace supported Shoot Festival 2017 with an exhibition from our graduate resident of the time, Natalie Seymour.  In 2019 we are even more excited to be partnering with Shoot to develop a visual art strand to the Festival alongside the music and performance strands.  To do this we supported the Shoot team to run a visual […]

Bev Hartley

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  Bev is a founder member of https://coventryprintmakers.weebly.com/ Instagram: @coventryprintmakers Photograph by Taskin Capar

Chidera Ugada

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Chidera Ugada   Chidy makes artwork incorporating mixed media in the field of painting and drawing. He focuses on mark making and texturing as a way to re-interpret images. website   Photograph by Taskin Capar

Photo Archive Miners

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Photo Archive Miners, Mark (left), Jason (right) and Ben (out!) work with communities to create new narratives of everyday life through exhibitions, films and online and print publications.   www.photomining.org @PhotoMining

Andy Webster

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Andy has a doctorate in Fine Art practice, awarded by the University of Arts, London, a Masters in Fine Art from the University of Brighton, and BA (Hons) Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University. Andy currently works between Coventry and Belfast.  He works individually and collaboratively across sculpture, performance, moving image, sound, drawing and curatorial […]

Adam Neal

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Adam is a visual artist who seeks to investigate, explore and define ‘working-class’ culture through the lens of his family relationships and upbringing. Adam predominately realises his ideas through the use of digital processes such as film, photography and sound. Website Instagram   Photograph by Taskin Capar