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ARTSPACE EMPTY SHOPS PROJECTS CHAMPIONED BY 'QUEEN OF SHOPS'
Read an article championing Artspace's work in void spaces as Mary Portas' undertakes her high street review and as Coventry features in her 'top 5 ways to tackle the highstreet downturn' by clicking here.
ARTIST JASON TILLEY LAUNCHES A NEW BLOG
Artspace member and bursary recipient Jason Tilley has launched a new blog to introduce his Arts Council funded project 'The Beautiful People'. Through this blog, Jason will provide an insight into his developing photography collection; made up from a series of his images created in India, and by those of his grandfather who was a photographer for the Time in India in the 1930s.
Read more here: thebeautifulpeopleblog.wordpress.com/
ARTSPACE = ARTS DEVELOPMENT
Artspace continues to deliver the City Council's Arts Development Services. For details click here or visit www.coventry.gov.uk/arts
Your snapshot guide to essential services, support and networks in Coventry and the region:
www.coventry.gov.uk/arts - All of your need-to-know Arts Development information.
www.redteapot.co.uk – Online space for artists to share information, good practise and hot art tips.
www.pkncoventry.posterous.com – Rapid-fire creative presentation making at Taylor John’s House.
www.emergemag.co.uk – Regular e-bulletins and monthly networking events for Coventry’s creatives.
www.coventryart.co.uk – Coventry’s developing Contemporary Art Forum.
www.artsjobs.org.uk – Jobs, opportunities and news from Arts Council England.
www.a-n.co.uk – Artists Newsletter featuring art news and professional development support for artists.
http://tpwm.squarespace.com – Turning Point West Midlands, the regional visual arts network.
www.theherbert.org – Coventry’s Art Gallery & Museum.
www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/ - Mead Gallery, the premiere space for Contemporary Art in Coventry at Warwick Arts Centre.
http://meter-room.org/ - Contemporary art project space and artist studios.
http://www.lanchestergalleryprojects.org.uk/ - Coventry University’s programme of Contemporary Art projects.
Artspace has been working in partnership with Coventry City Council (City Development Directorate) since November 2009 to support artists and creative practitioners to occupy units in Coventry’s City Arcade on a rolling short term, temporary licence basis. We are currently developing a dedicated web archive of projects that we have instigated, supported and delivered. The website will also include information for other organisations seeking to develop projects and resources which have been commissioned through a Void Space Strategy for Coventry City Council.
The website will be launched in early 2011. For more details in the mean time email us mail@coventry-artspace.co.uk
Below: Images and links to some of the projects we have instigated, supported and delivered.
Artist Mark Hancock in a temporary intervention project space for ‘Self Assembly’, a project exploring notions of the handmade and IKEA hacking. The main exhibition featured 4 pieces commissioned for the IKEA foyer which is over the road from the City Arcade and a shop unit acted as a project space for 4 recent graduates making work in response to the exhibition.
Dan Thompson of the Empty Shops Network has his mind read in the Artspace bursary space/laboratory as part of Ladies of Science: A Sideshow
Artspace members New Macho Performance Company undertake a performance in the derelict Artspace basement at Bodies on the Edge Festival 2009.
Annexinema presented a site-specific screening event for the second exhibition at Castle & Elephant in December with a window-based exhibition which continued to the end of the year.
Nottingham based Artist Tom Godfrey undertakes his first solo-exhibition at the Castle & Elephant gallery. A documented artist discussion can be found on the website:
www.castleandelephant.co.uk
Artspace bursary recipients Frieda van de Poll and Shiam Wilcox are supported to work collaboratively for the first time, developing Ladies of Science; A Sideshow.
www.ladiesofscience.blog.com
Frieda van de Poll and Shiam Wilcox host a showcase of their shop space bursary project in Coventry’s Herbert Museum and Art Gallery Medieval Crypt.
The Artspace building on Lower Holyhead Road provides low-cost studios, community workshop space and shared facilities for creative practitioners.
