As part of the Happenstance project, current creative technologist in residence Kevin Walker invited Spike Island artists, designers and staff to contribute a postcard design to Wish You Were Here, an interactive installation for the Spike Island Open. Within just a few days, we had the following beautiful cards with drawings, prints, photos and digital designs. Amy Mason, former Spike Island writer in residence, then wrote a non-linear ... read on →

As part of this year's Spike Island Open we have invited studio holders and members of Spike Associates to submit recent video works, reflecting the rich range of moving image work produced by the artistic community here. The artists variously explore analogue film's relationship to sculpture, live performative actions to camera and the influence of other genres on Video Art, such as science fiction cinema, theatrical melodrama ... read on →

The Sensible Stage: Staging and the Moving Image is a collection of newly commissioned texts that explore the relationship between the moving image, performance and theatricality in recent contemporary art practice. Edited by Bridget Crone and published by Picture This with Bridget Crone/Plenty Projects, the book is launched with a programme of performances during the LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images, 23 to 27 May. To celebrate the launch of ... read on →

The following publications have been selected by our programme team and the artists to provide further information about our current exhibitions. These offer art historical, cultural and theoretical context to the works and their production. Dewar & Gicquel, Crêpe Suzette The Craftsman, Richard Sennett Mason Massacre, Dewar & Gicquel The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade, John Roberts Take Place: Photography and ... read on →

Artist and Spike Island studio holder Matt Davies has created a stunning audio portrait of Haroon Mirza's exhibition. Using a directional microphone and digital recorder, Davies walks through the show, capturing the sounds of individual pieces along the way. This saturation of sound highlights the audio content of the exhibition, exposing the quieter sounds within the space, such as the hum emitting from the various amps, TVs and other electrical ... read on →

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 →

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 →