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 →

We’ve come to the end of our first week of the Happenstance project and residents Kevin Walker and Linda Sandvik have had a burst of ideas about how to collect data from around the building and use it to make exciting, intriguing and maybe even beautiful visualisations and objects. Happenstance is an experiment to see what happens when creative technologists are embedded in arts organisations. Already we’ve been ... 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 →

Beyond the walls of the gallery here at Spike Island there are studios and offices full of artists, designers and other creative practitioners. We talked to a handful of people from around the building about what makes Spike Island such a lively and inspiring place to develop their work. This audio slideshow has been created by Nick Hand, a designer and photographer based at Spike Island, with the help ... read on →