The countdown for our Graduate Artist-In-Residence Janet’s exhibition is now on! Find out how her last minute preparations are going… I write this during what was going to be the week prior to install and I guess would have, in a normal world, been my busiest week. As such, it’s been fairly calm as I’ve […]

Catch up with our Graduate Artist-in-Residence, Janet Tryner, as she reveals plans for her upcoming exhibition at Arcadia Gallery and shares some of her most recent work… What have I done in November? I’m busy developing artworks and I’ve rewritten schemes for my exhibition at Arcadia Gallery several times! I’m planning to have exhibition available to be […]

Following last week’s blog about melissandre’s residency at Arcadia, a partnership project with Outside In Midlands Hub, we’re delighted to support them here with the sharing of a second film. mel’s last sharing of the season in this space is, change your style, a poetry film by lanaire aderemi. They will also be taking over […]

This time last year Our Graduate Artist In Residence Janet had only just started her residency with us. Find out how she is getting on 12 months on… “Blogging has evolved to become a way of working out my thinking about making art, however, recently things have changed. Before Covid, I would write reams organised into […]

Our Graduate Artist In Residence Janet shares how a national pandemic and lockdown restrictions have affected her practice, and her life, over the past few months… “I’ve been finding my blog incredibly hard to write because I have no plans. I always had plans before the pandemic. My own plans. And now I find I […]

We have loved having melissandre varin in residence at Arcadia as part of our partnership with Outside In Midlands Hub. Both mel and we are really disappointed that the 2nd national lockdown means we can no longer host the film sharing and conversation events that were planned as part of the residency. But fear not!  […]

Ije (pronounced eejay) – is a conceptual/expressionist mixed practice artist – primarily painting, poetry and installation (also sculpture, printing, photography and film). Her work seeks to reshape embodied notions, responding to encounters with time, space and change through making and documenting; generating works activated through colour, gesture, texture, layering, fabrication, repetition and reflectivity.  Ije’s work […]

What strange times we are living through. I wonder what the history books will say of them? How wonderful if the stories describe how societies across the world learnt many lessons and made changes to bring about a fairer, more just, equal and sustainable world. I imagine many people will laugh or sigh at such […]