If you can't make it down to our exhibitions resource area but would like to learn more about the work in our winter exhibitions, these titles have been suggested by artists Haroon Mirza and Suzanne Mooney. Haroon Mirza, /|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/| Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner (ed.) British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom ... read on →

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Technical Assistant to support Spike Island’s public programme of exhibitions and events. You'll need to be handy, reliable and a good team player. The deadline to apply for this post is Friday 2 March, 5pm. For more information, visit our Opportunities page. read on →

Welcome to Spike Island’s new website. We’ve been working hard over the last year as an organisation to think about how we describe what we are, both for our internal community and our wider audience. Are we a gallery? Artists’ studios? Offices? The answer is that we’re all of these, plus a café, printmaking studio, home to arts organisations like Picture This and neighbour to others like Bristol Diving School. ... read on →

Big congratulations to artist Ruth Claxton who won the 2012 Arts Foundation Award for Sculpture last night. Claxton spent time at Spike Island in 2007 through the Arts Council England: South West Residency. Her three months here formed part of the research phase in the development of a major body of work, Lands End. The exhibition opened at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, in April 2007 and was ... read on →

Sound Spill is part of a wider body of research undertaken by Haroon Mirza with curator Thom O’Nions and artist Richard Sides. They are interested in the curatorial problem of sound spill, when the audio from one artwork overlaps with that of another in a gallery setting. By and large, efforts are made to minimise sounds mixing in this way. This, to some degree, invariably fails. Artworks with an element ... read on →