Coventry Artspace News
Artspace Building Work on the Horizon
Artspace is eagerly awaiting the start of thebuilding works to renovate the much-loved Artspace Building. The Arts Council England, West Midlands, the Alan Edwards Higgs Charitable Trust and The 29th May Foundation have kindly donated funds towards making the Artspace building a safer, more practical, and exciting place to conduct Artspace activity.
Main plans include new heating systems, fixing the roof, plumbing and electrics and decoration of the building. Further support is being sought to complete the redevelopment of the basement, which will increase existing space and facilities in the building by over 50% The building work is scheduled to start in early July, and the initial renovation work should happen within as few as six months.
Tony Clewett and Mike Fletcher will beworking with Artspace Artists Coordinator Laura Elliott to manage the project. If you have any questions about the process, please don’t hesitate to ask Laura. Thanks again to everyone involved in the process and here’s to the Artspace Building!
Artspace welcomes Laura Elliott
As a result of a successful bid to the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Artspace is delighted to welcome the new Artspace Artists Coordinator, Laura Elliott. Laura joins us from Arts Training Central in Leicester and will be the first port of call for enquiries to Artspace.
Insight : In a unique collaboration between The Herbert and Coventry Artspace, new artworks have been created to mark the completion of the first phase of The Herbert’s development work. Artists based at Coventry’s Artspace Studios were given access to The Herbert’s collections. They were then paired up with a specific curator, collection and site in the new part of the building to create a new piece of work. The resulting artworks demonstrate quite diverse responses to this exploration of the juxtaposition of historic collection and modern site.
This series of artworks has been funded by Arts Council England.