Coventry Artspace

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

On Backbone, by artist Leigh Ann Willar McDonagh

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Leigh Ann is a member of The Shared Collective and comments here about her experience of working on an Art of Curation project with curator Anna Douglas to create the exhibition Backbone at Arcadia Gallery (2-10 November 2018).  We will share blogs from the other members of The Shared Collective in the next couple of […]

Libby Cufley

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Libby Cufley is an artists’ moving image practitioner, researcher and curator working in both analogue and digital media, based in London and the West Midlands. The domestic space, work, mental health and the body are key themes within her practice. Research areas of interest include artists’ moving image distribution, brutalist architecture, feminist film theory, identity politics and artists’ […]

Rachel Doughty

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Rachel works mainly in the area of installation with her main focus being women and children.  Past work has looked at themes such as the practice of International adoption, the refugee crisis and the issues and consequences of a child spending time in the care system. www.racheldoughty.co.uk  

Helen Kilby Nelson

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Helen is one of our two graduate residents at Eaton House 2018-19.  After graduating with a 1st class from Leamington College she is now exploring and developing her practice and is particularly interested in socially engaged activities. https://www.axisweb.org/p/helenkilby-nelson/   Photograph by Taskin Capar

Nick Walker

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Nick is Coventry based writer, director and theatre maker https://www.davidhigham.co.uk/filmclients/nick–walker/

BACKBONE (Arcadia Gallery 1-10 November)

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A warm thank you to the inspirational older women who have created BACKBONE! Last week it was our great pleasure to support an Art of Curation project at Arcadia Gallery.  This is the final artwork shown to support The Art of Coventry Programme.  Curator and project leader Anna Douglas told us, “We started last Thursday […]

Our Graduate Artists-In-Residence

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Our graduate artists-in-residence Helen Nelson and Adam Neal are settling well into their studios, and it’s great to see loads of ideas sharing and dialogue surrounding socially engaged practice that they both explore. Both artists have delved deeper into the themes and issues that their work reflects, and shared with us a deeper insight into […]

Carol Breen

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Through practice Carol is exploring the infinite forms of the digital image.  She remakes her own archive of images again and again, allowing herself to examine ideas relating to form, content, and medium. website   Photograph by Taskin Capar

Laura Nyahuye

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Laura Nyahuye is an artist and designer making wearable art.  She is founder of Maokwo, a social enterprise exploring ways in which creativity can bring communities together. https://lauranyahuye.wordpress.com/about   Photograph by Taskin Capar