(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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]