LIMBER GYM AT THE METER ROOM IN COVENTRY                                               click for statement, press release, graphics

Artist and curator, Daniel Pryde-Jarman set up Meter Room as a Project Space and Studios for local artists during his time in Coventry researching his PhD.

The 'Meter Room' was Daniel's ambitious project to reclaim a defunct and derelict 1960s' office space as studios for local artists and a Project Space for artists to explore ideas outside  the commercial gallery system.

Paige Perkins was the first artist to take up Daniel's offer of the space. Paige made great use of the derelict space and its related detritus to form a huge nest that filled the space, immediately converting the whole space into a work and establishing Daniels' artistic and curatorial ambitions for the Meter Room.

When Daniel asked me if I would be interested in developing a project he could not have known how appropriate the space was for me to develop 'Limber Gym', a subject that had preoccupied me for many years.  Many office blocks had come to house these gyms and their equipment as the fetish for the body beautiful and ideals of fitness had taken hold. The obsession of human consciousness with improvements of all kinds is at the root of Limber Gym. Our extraordinary consciousness has invented the necessity for walking and running machines.