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 […]

Duncan Whitley is an artist working predominantly with sound and the moving-image. His practice synthesizes the languages of cinema, documentary and spatial sound art. He has presented site-specific projects, audiovisual works, installations and live multi-channel sound works in the UK, Europe and South America. He is currently Coventry Biennial artist in residence at Coventry University’s […]

John is a Coventry-based photographer who specialises in traditional analogue techniques using his own dark room for printing. Much of his work is travel and documentary photography, but John also has a vast portfolio of commissioned work spanning across event and behind-the scenes photography. At the beginning of the year, John converted one of the rooms […]

Our Graduate Artist-In-Residence Janet Tryner has got off to a busy start to the year, and has been making great use of her studio space at Eaton House. Have a read of her latest blog to see the direction the residency is now taking her creative practice…   “I have been busy in the studio […]

Our Graduate Artist In Residence Janet has been looking ahead at her plans as an artist for 2020 and the opportunities the New Year brings… December has been busy and subject to the usually shared lulls in work to reconnect with family. Time out has also enabled me to forge new connections and personal plans […]

It’s been a busy end to the year for Janet, our Graduate Artist in Residence. Janet’s summed up what she’s been up to over the last couple of months, and opportunities that she has found within the city to help push forward her personal development.  Although I am building up banks of media to assemble […]

Jazz Moreton is a socially-engaged artist who is concerned with socio-political themes such as the ways that marginalised groups struggle to be accepted as part of mainstream society. Jazz works in a variety of mediums ranging from the rebellious medium of Performance to the often-ignored disabled voice. Jazz graduated with first-class Honours in Fine Art […]

It’s been wonderful to see our new Graduate Artist-In-Residence Janet making such great use of her studio space here at Eaton House, and really becoming absorbed into the project she is working on throughout the residency. Here’s Janet’s latest blog post reflecting on her residency so far: Investigation into Extended Phenotypes This is my second […]

In September we wished a fond farewell to our Graduate Artists-In-Residence Helen Kilby Nelson and Adam Neal. We couldn’t be more proud of what they achieved during their year with us, and are excited to see how their careers will continue to develop as artists. We are thrilled to welcome our new Graduate Artist-In-Residence Janet […]