Opening hours Spike Island will be closed over the festive season from Monday, 22nd December until Friday, 2nd January 2026. Café open: Monday, Tuesday and Sunday: 10am–4pm, Wednesday to Saturday: 10am–5pm

Press

REVIEWS AND EXHIBITIONS

Art Forum — Olu Ogunnaike: Fix Your Face at Spike Island
Art Monthly — Donald Rodney at Spike Island
ARTnews — Donald Locke Tackled Colonialism’s Complicated Legacy With Restless Intensity
Art Review — Pacita Abad at Spike Island, Bristol
Art Asia Pacific — The Deadly Absurdity of Borders: Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s “45th Parallel”
Burlington Contemporary — Veronica Ryan: Along a Spectrum by Kathryn Lloyd
Financial Times — Pacita Abad in Bristol: where art, craft and politics intersect
Frieze — Queer History According to Flo Brooks
Frieze — Javanese Epics, German Mystics and Colonial Bloodsucking: Sriwhana Spong at Spike Island
Frieze — Imran Perretta at Spike Island Review: ‘There’s Only Things, Blackie’
Frieze — Vanessa Peterson: Danielle Dean and Dan Guthrie’s Filmic Counter-Narratives
Guardian — Donald Locke Review — Incredible, powerful, uncomfortable, shocking ★★★★
Guardian — Donald Rodney review – the young dying artist who struck at Britain’s sick, racist heart ★★★★
Guardian — Sriwhana Spong review – telling tales of Bali with PG tips and a GoPro ★★★★
Guardian — Richard Long/Simon Starling
Hyperallergic — Anna Souter: Donald Rodney Drew Upon His Sickness to Illuminate Society’s Ills
inews — In Wet Room Lucy Stein’s vibrant studies of female mythology bristle with wit and witchy energy
The Observer — Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker; Alvaro Barrington: Grace review – skin in the game ★★★★
Observer — On View: Ofelia Rodríguez “Talking in Dreams” at Spike Island
Plaster — Harriet Lloyd-Smith: The Death of Stroud’s Racist Clock
Review — ‘Itchin’ & Scratchin’’- Denzil Forrester at Spike Island ★★★★
Studio International — Donald Locke: Resistant Forms

Community and artists

Apollo — Studio artist David Chalmers in What does the Jameel Prize mean for contemporary Islamic art?
Architects Journal — Katy Conor in team behind inflatable Martian house public art project
Art Forum — John Wood and Paul Harrison (Review)
Artsy — Angela Lizon nominated as next Rising Art Star by Stewart Geddes
BBC — Valda Jackson designs new 50p coin to mark Windrush’s 75th anniversary
BBC — Bo Lanyon in Bristol hotel’s artwork honouring the legacy of St Pauls
British Journal of Photography — The auras of Michael Swann’s photographs envelop us
Channel Eye — Cliff Andrade in Portuguese, Polish and Romanian artists to work with ArtHouse Jersey
CRACK magazine — Myrna Quiñonez: Centre Page Poster Issue 142
Exeter City Council — Bryony Gillard on BBC TV Spotlight
FE News — Harriet Bowman wins prestigious Mark Tanner Sculpture Award
Financial Times — Amak Mahmoodian on women’s identity in Iran
Frieze — Mary Hurrell’s Fluid Forms
The Guardian — Dhaqan Collective in Love letters, gossip, prayers and poetry: the tapes that sustained the Somali diaspora
The Guardian — Joel Redman: It’s an RV life for Yurok kids on the California coast
Independent — Marcus Jefferies exhibits in 2023 Contemporary Art Prize showcase
It’s Nice That — In C-R92/BY, Samuel Fordham investigates how families torn apart by immigration policies stay connected
Neural — Stephen Cornford presents Petrified Media
The New York Times — Huma Mulji in Contradiction Remains Vital to Pakistan and Its Art (review)
The New York Times — John Wood and Paul Harrison for Frieze Sculpture 2022
Salford Now — Jo Lathwood hosts exhibition at The Lowry
Vogue US — Meet Andrew Mania, the Artist Who Painted Timothée Chalamet’s Face on James Ivory’s Shirt for the Oscars

SPIKE ISLAND

The Art Newspaper — Bristol’s Spike Island has become an environmental beacon—here’s why it makes financial sense for others to follow suit
Bristol 24/7 — Bristol’s Cultural Highlights of 2025: Spike Island Open Studios
Bristol 24/7 — Spike Island prepares for Open Studios 2025
British GQ — Bristol: 10 coolest things to do | British GQ
Bristol Post — Popular café Emmeline opens second site at Spike Island
Bristol Post — Bristol arts centre Spike Island chosen to receive a £100,000 funding boost
Culture Trip — Spike Island in the Coolest Creative Spaces In Bristol UK

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Gallery Spike Island will be closed over the festive season from Monday, 22nd December until Friday, 2nd January 2026. Gallery: Wednesday to Sunday 12–5pm

Café Monday, Tuesday and Sunday: 10am–4pm, Wednesday to Saturday: 10am–5pm

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