A small group of artists and trustees from Coventry Artspace recently travelled to BACKLIT in Nottingham.   BACKLIT is a registered charity and NPO and is the largest provider of studios in the Midlands – home to approximately 100 artists. They have been running since 2008 and recently purchased their building which means they […]

Coventry Artspace is at a pivotal moment in its journey. As a long-standing champion of artists and creative communities in Coventry, we are entering a new phase of development that is both challenging and full of opportunity. We are seeking new trustees to join our Board and help guide the organisation through this next stage […]

  Stories That Made Us – Roots, Resilience, Representation is a current exhibition by Hardish Virk at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, which traces the experiences of a South Asian family in Coventry from 1968 to 2010, drawing on Coventry Archives’ Virk Collection and curator & artist Hardish Virk’s personal archive. Through sound, film, photographs, […]

Polly Merredew and I, both studio holders here at Coventry Artspace, have been delighted to work together on curating a small exhibition of ‘rejected’ works on Floor 4 at Eaton House called Remembering Why. Our very own Salon Des Refusés, the show which launched at the start of May and will run into the summer […]

Coventry Artspace Studio Holders Saturday 5 – Tuesday 22 October 2024 Credit: Elly Bazigos Coventry Artspace studio holders are delighted to be showcasing their work in their annual group exhibition taking place this autumn at The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. Coventry Artspace studio holder work reflects a wide breadth of visual art disciplines, interests […]

Vlog by Trevor Price After mind mapping the process post-sessions, it was clear that we felt and witnessed many areas of connection. The main inspiration for the final work was the whole experience of the sessions, not just the artwork made; it was the conversations, interactions, and emotions that were felt going through the process […]

It is a lovely hot day in August and we’re gathered in the Families For All Hub for our weekly WOW (Wellbeing on Wednesdays) session. Running these sessions in August is part of my Artist On My Street residency, culminating in the creation of a big piece of art for a wall within the Centre. […]

The What We Wore Exhibition finishes on 29th September 2023. You can visit the exhibition in the Drapers Room at St Mary’s Guildhall as part of a visit to the Guildhall. At certain times you can also visit the exhibition for a fee of just £1. Check the St Mary’s Guildhall website for details. We […]

‘… a melancholy sea as I remember it. A tideless sea. I can recall, as a child, seeing pictures in English children’s books of boys and girls playing on the sand and making sandcastles- and I tried to play on my sand. But a Mediterranean beach is not a place for playing on. It is […]

Image/artwork by Rachel Doughty An enticing story needs a resolute narrator. Whether you, as reader, choose to believe them, is entirely up to the artistry and crafts(wo)manship of the faithful servant holding a pen or in a modern day décor, keyboard. The servant is I: Adélaïde Fontenit, soon to be graduated from Warwick University in […]