Coventry Artspace

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

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

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The latest iteration of this project was the 2024 collaboration with Heart of England Community Rail and Life Path Trust, funded by Avanti West Coast. Find out more here In 2023, an Artist On My Street project was produced in collaboration with Foleshill Families for All Hub and Foleshill Creates funded by The Arts Society. […]

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 […]

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 […]