Coventry Artspace

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

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IJE Blog – Summer Residency – Multiplicity Of Us

June 23, 2021 by Coventry Artspace

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 […]

‘Traces of Other(s)’ – Final Blog

June 13, 2021 by Coventry Artspace

  (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 […]

An edited note of intention – melissandre varin’s Spring Residency

June 10, 2021 by Coventry Artspace

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 […]

Artist In Residence Janet Tryner reflects on her residency

May 5, 2021 by Coventry Artspace

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 […]

melissandre varin Winter Residency Final Blog

March 17, 2021 by Coventry Artspace

(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. […]

melissandre varin Winter Residency Blog 3

March 12, 2021 by Coventry Artspace

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 […]

melissandre varin Winter Residency Blog 2

March 2, 2021 by Coventry Artspace

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 […]

melissandre varin Winter Residency Blog

February 17, 2021 by Coventry Artspace

  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 […]

Graduate Artist-In-Residence – January Blogspot

January 18, 2021 by Coventry Artspace

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 […]

Graduate Artist-In-Residence – December Blogspot

December 31, 2020 by Coventry Artspace

Here’s Janet Tryner, our Graduate Artist-In-Residence, with a sneak peek at what’s in store for her end-of-residency show… “And now it is finally Christmas week. It feels like this year took an age to elapse, but it’s nearly over and a hopefully a year of recovery is about to begin. If you’ve been reading my […]
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  1. Traversing Exhibition

    May 14 @ 12:00 pm - May 21 @ 4:00 pm
  2. Hardish Virk – Stories That Made Us

    May 20 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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    May 30 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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