Janet Tryner

I am a socially engaged multidisciplinary visual artist focusing on the ground level to explore intersections between culture, environment and the past. I'm particularly interested in more than human lives in urban space and am attracted to sites and spaces that are undergoing some kind of change. My work is characterised by scale and thorough focus. * My practice research usually starts with processes of discovery, by walking, capturing images and sounds and making collections of found objects. These materialise in my work in a variety of artforms including painting, drawing, digital multimedia, printing, jewellery, publication, installation, sculpture, writing, workshops. I also collaboratively help to run a small arts organisation in Coventry as a studioholder, advisor and trustee. * UPCOMING: Summer Camp at Eastside Projects, September 2024. Coventry Artspace Studioholder Exhibition, October 2024. Talking Birds NEST Residency October 2024. * RECENT WORKS: 'Blue Rec' and 'Cabinets of Renegotiation' at the Old Grammer School with Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art 6 October 2023 - 14 January 2024. 'Cracks in the moon and aliens in the sand' publication from residency with Coventy Biennial of Contemporary Art. 'If fieldfares don’t drop cotoneaster berries then no more cotoneaster berries for fieldfares' at Hotel Artopia, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry Aug '23. 'Observation Station - Museum of St Mary's Allotments' Leamington Spa, Selected for Cellophane Wrapper, Basingstoke. Solo exhibition and soundwalk 'Library of Litter' 2021, selected for Flora & Fauna Creative Showcase, The Wrong Biennale, 'Polygalls' at Coventry Open 2023, graduate residency with Coventry Artspace, commissions for Artist-on-my-street, Eco-friendly words & images 2022 & Small is Beautiful at The Core, Solihull, social art collaboration with Workshop 24 as Radio Public; Art Festival on Dudley High Street, residency. * Workshops revolve around experimenting with print texture and sculpture, and exploring sense of place with printing, sculpture and found objects and natural colours. * EDUCATION: MA Art & Archaeology at UHI, Orkney 2022-25. BA Hons (First) Fine Art & Contemporary Culture, 2019, University of Gloucestershire. BA Hons History of Art, English and Media & Communications, 1993, University of Wolverhampton. * I live and work in the West Midlands, UK. DBS checked & PLI. * CONTACT: www.janettryner.com & instagram @anatomyofasmile Coventry, Warwickshire, West Midlands, UK