Samosas & Art Chat with one our Coventry Art Show partners

Our November First Thursday will be at The Tin Music and Arts at The Coal Vaults, Coventry Canal Basin. Join us for a lunchtime samosa & chat with Thomas Ellmer from The Mead Gallery. He will share his experience of the British Art Show 10 and talk about Coventry's local response.

Thomas is Exhibitions Curator at The Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre and has curated and contributed to numerous artists’ exhibitions, including Nicole Bachmann, Fernão Cruz, Mit Jai Inn, Hew Locke, Katrina Palmer and Francis Offman. He has also curated and co-curated major group survey exhibitions including Radical Landscapes and Phantom Sculpture.

As usual, our First Thursday events are open to all and give local artists an opportunity to network, share their thoughts, and talk about art.

The Coventry Art Show is the fringe programme developed by local arts organisations in response to the launch of British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers (https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/british-art-show-10-a-chorus-of-strangers/) in Coventry venues until 10 January 2027.

The Coventry Art Show has 3 strands which reflect the themes of BAS10:

Moments of Being, inspired by the work of Virginia Woolf, this strand is led by Coventry Biennial

Ways of Living, inspired by the work of Stuart Hall, this strand is led by SOMA

States of Nature, inspired by the work of Timothy Morton, this strand is led by Talking Birds

Our special Coventry Art Show First Thursdays are part of the BAS 10 States of Nature strand, so artist and curator contributions will reflect this.

Please get in touch if you have any access issues so that we can support these. All welcome!

Coventry Art Show is funded by Arts Council England.

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