Coventry Artspace

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

melissandre varin Winter Residency Blog

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  acknowledgement   For those who have died following Covid-19 infection For those who recently died of causes unrelated to Covid-19 For those who have been systematically and systemically disabled For those who remain For those who soften in unexpected manners For those who held me up to be strong For those who nurture hope […]

Artist Development Research 2020

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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 […]

Graduate Artist-In-Residence – January Blogspot

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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 […]

Graduate Artist-In-Residence – December Blogspot

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Here’s Janet Tryner, our Graduate Artist-In-Residence, with a sneak peek at what’s in store for her end-of-residency show… “And now it is finally Christmas week. It feels like this year took an age to elapse, but it’s nearly over and a hopefully a year of recovery is about to begin. If you’ve been reading my […]

Graduate Artist-In-Residence – November Blogspot

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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 […]

[Dis]locating [artist] residency: film sharing / change your style 

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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 […]

Graduate Artist-In-Residence – October Blogspot

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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 […]

Graduate Artist-In-Residence – May Blogspot

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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 […]

[Dis]locating [artist] residency: Film Sharing (Sioda Adams)

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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!  […]

#ArtistinFocus – Ije

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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 […]