Coventry Artspace

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

The Art of Place – applications open

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Ludic Rooms, in partnership with Coventry Artspace is inviting local artists to explore ‘The Art of Place’ with them in a free course and commissioning opportunity. This is part of Ludic Rooms’ Random String programme and the Coventry Artspace Artist Development programme 2021-22. Random String is a nine month long arts and technology programme exploring […]

IJE Blog – Summer Residency – Multiplicity Of Us

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Warwickshire based artist Ije will be involved in melissandre varin’s summer residency at Arcadia Gallery, so she’s shared with us a bit about herself and her creative practice… Ije (eejay): A Scottish/Nigerian artist-healer. My practice draws on a lifetime of exploring landscapes, from wild spaces of mountains and coastlines, to mining and farming communities to industrial towns […]

‘Traces of Other(s)’ – Final Blog

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  (Image by Mandip Singh Seehra).   All of the artists involved in melissandre varin’s Spring Residency at Arcadia have reflected on their experience of their time in the gallery space, and what the themes that the residency allowed their work to explore…   Traces of Other(s) – Ryan Christopher A space of fragility and […]

An edited note of intention – melissandre varin’s Spring Residency

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For their Spring residency melissandre varin invited Ryan Christopher, Rupi Dhillon, Sebastian H-W, and Mandip Singh Seehra to intervene on/with the land commonly known as Arcadia Gallery. investigating the backbone question pertaining to their seasonal residency with Coventry Artspace: how to grow collectively otherwise? This residency poetically resonated on Others’ frequencies. The artists revolved as […]

Artist On My Street Commissions

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  ARTIST ON MY STREET – ARTIST CALL OUT 2 – Deadline Monday 11 October 2021 This opportunity is open to all Coventry and Warwickshire based artists registered with Coventry Artspace. Join Coventry Artspace here  During Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture, Coventry Artspace is administering 21 x £500 bursaries for local artists to […]

JOB OPPORTUNITY – Coventry Foundations Project Lead

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Job title: Coventry Foundations Project Lead Responsible to: Executive Director Salary: £26,000 per annum (pro rata 0.6fte – 22.5hrs/week) Terms: Fixed term 12 months Funded by Arts Council England and Coventry City of Culture Trust and with support from Coventry City Council Deadline for applications is 12pm Monday 7 June 2021. Interviews will be held […]

Artist In Residence Janet Tryner reflects on her residency

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Our 2020 Artist-In-Residence Janet Tryner has reflected on her residency with us and how it has impacted her creative practice…   Packing up into a single blog of around 1,000 words of over a year’s experience of being graduate artist in residence at Coventy ArtSpace, a phase for which I will ever be grateful, which […]

melissandre varin Winter Residency Final Blog

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(Image by Mandip Singh Seehra).   A meditation on ‘lived experiences’    audio version: melissandre varin · a meditation on lived experiences   The art worlds should support beings with lived experiences.    period   Once this has been said, there is more to be said about multiplicity, and the many forms support can take. […]

melissandre varin Winter Residency Blog 3

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Images – stills from funeral of normativity (2021) This all i have, this a love letter, this is another version of me and i hope you can find ways to ENJOY it. Here, to enjoy something is not restricted to laughing, liking, loving but to access a spectrum of emotions, to give yourself the permission […]

melissandre varin Winter Residency Blog 2

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Photography by: Mandip Singh Seehra LRPS @surreal7 @mycoventry2021   ☎️Share your contribution for an IRL offering in the form of an art installation later in the year @CovArtspace ☎️   Excited to get in touch with you thanks to the answer machine of Arcadia Gallery gathering bits of us and keeping on transforming art spaces […]