Gallery open 12–5pm Café open 8.30am–5pm
Mai-Thu Perret The Blazing World (2019) Installation view, Spike Island, Bristol. Works courtesy the artist and Simon Lee Gallery. Photograph by Stuart Whipps

Current exhibitions
Christopher Kulendran Thomas New Eelam: Bristol

19 January to 24 March 2019 Read more

Current exhibitions
Mai-Thu Perret The Blazing World

19 January to 24 March 2019 Read more

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Photograph by Lisa Whiting

About

Spike Island is a public space where people can discover and connect with art. We are also home to a community of artists and creative businesses
McArthur's Warehouse, Artspace's first home (1980s)

History

Artspace Bristol – which later became Spike Island – was founded in the mid-1970s by a group of painters, sculptors and printmakers
Vanessa Boni, Veronica Ryan, Robert Leckie, Elisa Kay and Melanie Cassoff at Spike Island. Photograph by Jeff Moore

News

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Spike Island visitors to Reto Pulfer's exhibition (2015) Photograph by Max McClure

Our community

We are home to over 70 artists, a range of creative businesses, Spike Design, Spike Island café, and much more
Mary Paterson and Genevieve Maxwell A Walk of View (she began to dissolve)

Projects and residencies

We are dedicated to supporting artists to develop their careers
Larissa Sansour, In the Future, They Ate From the Finest Porcelain (2015) Production still, courtesy Spike Island

Film and video production

Spike Island provides specialist exhibition, production and post-production services
Spike Island
133 Cumberland Road
Bristol BS1 6UX
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0) 117 929 2266+44 (0) 117 929 2266 E: admin@spikeisland.org.uk

Opening Hours

Gallery Tuesday to Sunday 12–5pm
Café Monday to Friday 8.30am–5pm
Saturday to Sunday 10am–5pm
Spike Island Artspace Ltd. Registered Charity no. 1003505. Registered in England and Wales no. 2624621
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