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Janet Tryner

Coventry
Contemporary artist inspired by changing spaces and turbulence at ground level.
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I am a socially-engaged, early career, multidisciplinary conceptual visual artist. I focus on mutable urban and suburban ground level ecosystems to explore intersections of culture, species and matter. For up to date information please see my website: www.janettryner.com.

My research starts with collecting found objects and waste material and continues by investigating inter-connectedness via abstract form. This manifests variously: as hand-printing, sewn sculpture and installations, displaying a variety of salvaged material, including polythene and litter, as irl and hybrid augmented-reality installations, soundwalk, publications, natural clay processing unit, video and social art workshops.

Former residencies and projects, and a solo exhibition 'Library of Litter' at Coventry Artspace Arcadia Gallery, were inspired by my ‘Ground Level Investigations’ – a running social media theme – into litter and urban ecosystems, including: mushrooms, pioneer plants and oak gall wasps.

My work as an artist seeks to increase care and cultural perception of the ground level as a lived space shared between species which is vital to future wellbeing of all.

I am a studio holder with, and a trustee of Coventry Artspace, and a member of West Midlands social art collective, Radio Public, with Workshop 24. 

I hold a First Class BA Hons in Fine Art & Contemporary Culture, 2019, from University of Gloucestershire, a BA Hons History of Art, English and Media & Communications, 1993, from University of Wolverhampton and am currently studying MA Contemporary Art & Archaeology at UHI part time.  I live with my family in the West Midlands, UK.

 

Upcoming
2023 July EOP Summer Camp Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2023 August Radio Public Library Art Festival, Brierley Hill, West Midlands
2023 Skyscraper Stories Vol 2: Group Show, Coventry
2023 October 'Blue Rec' Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art '...like a shortcut through the brambles' commission
2023 October - November: Various Workshops
2023 December - Collaborative Workshop, Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference. Norwich

Recent Activity:
2023 July Cellophane Wrapper, Proteus Art Space, Basingstoke
2023 The Dreaming: Mothers who make a garden Image and poem. Coventry Biennial 2023.
2023 Cracks in the moon and aliens in the sand Publication for Coventry Biennial 2023.
2023 Coventry Open
2023 March: Buffer Group exhibition
2023 February: Open Studio
2022 October: Flora & Fauna Exhibition (Highly Commended)
2022 September: Museum of St Mary’s’ Art Trail
2022 August: Skyscraper Stories Group show and experimental print workshop
2022 June: Radio Public Collaborative art festival
2022 May: Reveil 9
2022 April: bag.play.art London
2022 March: Eco-friendly words and images You Can Trust in Pioneer Plants
2022: Oak Mother IWD22 Film Programme
2022 'Exploring Collections' step-up course with OutsideIn
2022 Jan: Calling Earth Stars AR installation, Solihull
2021 - 2022 Ground Level Interference Soundwalk, Coventry
2021 Nov Crow Papers Commission
2021 Nov Drowning in Plastic Group exhibition
2021 'Moving Our Futures' Artist's Lab with Moto Fest and Coventry University
2021 'Leading Workshops Online' step-up course with OutsideIn
2021 Residency at Coventry Biennial HyperLab renovations
2021 3 - 17 April Open Fragment online show Pragmata Collective
2021 Jan 26 - 7 Feb: Library of Litter SOLO SHOW, Coventry ArtSpace, City Arcadia Gallery
2020/19 Graduate Artist-in-Residence with Coventry ArtSpace
2020 July: Temperance, Re-opening
2020 April: Selected for 'THE CLUNKER' Norfolk & Norwich Festival (Postponed)
2020 April: Selected for Unas Multorium Plas Bodfa, Anglesey
2020 Feb 27 Human Oak at Classroom, Open Studio, Holyhead Studios, collaboration with Tara Rutledge
2020 Jan: 'falls the shadow' Router, The Wrong Biennale
2019 Nov: The Holodeck Risobook 2 'Future Critical' publication
2019 Aug: Coventry Printmakers Inaugural Open Call Exhibition, Class Room
2019 Sep: Subterraneous Selected as part of the North Pennines AONB Partnership’s Cold-blooded and Spineless project
2019 Mar: Open Exhibition for artists in the West Midlands Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
2019 SLURP Degree Exhibition
2019 TASTER Group Exhibition, Leamington Spa
2018 The other side of June
2017 RBSA Open All Media
2017 AMA Member's Exhibition Rugby Museum & Art Gallery
2017 Exhibition for artists in the West Midlands Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum

Currently installed
2022 Jan: Calling Earth Stars Augmented reality installation, Parabola & The Core, Solihull
2021 Nov - 2022 Jan: Crow Papers Coventry Artspace Artist on my Street, Hillfields, Coventry

Publications:
2023 Cracks in the moon and aliens in the sand Coventry Biennial. Residency at The Empire renovations.
2023 The Dreaming: Mothers who make a garden Image and poem. Coventry Biennial 2023.
2021 Seeds from stolen ground The Garden Zine
2021 BLOG: Anatomy of a Smile
Coventry ArtSpace Graduate Artist-in-Residence Blogs
2020 & Nov 2019

Commissions:
2022: Calling Earth Stars Augmented reality installation, Parabola & The Core, Solihull
2021 Nov - 2022 Jan: Coventry Artspace Artist on my Street, Crow Recycling, Hillfields, Coventry Crow Papers
2021 Making Art in the Public Realm Board game-based training course in collaboration with artist Helen Kilby Nelson for Coventry ArtSpace.
2021 Navigating Disaster Board game-based training course in collaboration with artist Helen Kilby Nelson for Coventry ArtSpace.
2021 Talking Birds Nest Bond 10 Screenprint design
2020 Coventry ArtSpace Illustrations for Artist Development Research

Education:
Current: MA Art & Archaeology at UHI, Orkney (part-time)
BA Hons (First) Fine Art & Contemporary Culture, 2019, University of Gloucestershire
BA Hons History of Art, English and Media & Communications, 1993, University of Wolverhampton.

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