Warwickshire based artist Ije will be involved in melissandre varin’s summer residency at Arcadia Gallery, so she’s shared with us a bit about herself and her creative practice… Ije (eejay): A Scottish/Nigerian artist-healer. My practice draws on a lifetime of exploring landscapes, from wild spaces of mountains and coastlines, to mining and farming communities to industrial towns […]

  (Image by Mandip Singh Seehra).   All of the artists involved in melissandre varin’s Spring Residency at Arcadia have reflected on their experience of their time in the gallery space, and what the themes that the residency allowed their work to explore…   Traces of Other(s) – Ryan Christopher A space of fragility and […]

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 […]

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 […]

(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 […]

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 […]