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Staff and Trustees

Staff and Trustees

Jesse Jones The Struggle Against Ourselves (2012) Installation view, Spike Island, Bristol. Photograph by Stuart Whipps
Our highly skilled and enthusiastic team come from a range of different backgrounds but all have one thing in common: a determination to bring art to more people, by believing in and investing in artists.

STAFF

Saphia Abrahamovitch-Venner

Assistant Curator: Artist Development and Engagement saphia.venner@spikeisland.org.uk

Billie Appleton

Visitor Assistant

Tanith Blackman

Front of House Assistant admin@spikeisland.org.uk

Germaine Budden

Visitor Assistant

Ama Dogbe

Visitor Assistant

Jacqui Gavin

Operations Manager jacqui.gavin@spikeisland.org.uk

Cassie Ireland

Operations Supervisor cassie.ireland@spikeisland.org.uk

Isabel Jones

Office and HR Manager isabel.jones@spikeisland.org.uk

Olivia Jones

Senior Technician olivia.jones@spikeisland.org.uk

Carmen Juliá

Curator carmen.julia@spikeisland.org.uk

Diana Lage

UWE MA Curatorial Placement diana.lage@spikeisland.org.uk

Robert Leckie

Director robert.leckie@spikeisland.org.uk

Jon McCall

Interim Communications Manager jon.mccall@spikeisland.org.uk

Sitheag Mckinnon

Front of House Supervisor sitheag.mckinnon@spikeisland.org.uk

Eve Miners

Visitor Assistant

Andy Moss

Exhibition Services Manager andy.moss@spikeisland.org.uk

Alan Parry

Finance Manager alan.parry@spikeisland.org.uk

Patrizia Ribul

Project Manager, West of England Visual Arts Alliance (WEVAA) patrizia.ribul@spikeisland.org.uk

Chloe Sclater

Front of House Assistant admin@spikeisland.org.uk

Eldon Somers

Visitor Assistant

Emily Southcott

Communications Assistant emily.southcott@spikeisland.org.uk

Oliver Sutherland

Senior AV Technician oliver.sutherland@spikeisland.org.uk

Rosa Tyhurst

Assistant Curator: Exhibitions and Public Programmes rosa.tyhurst@spikeisland.org.uk

Iman West

Visitor Assistant

Aidan Woodburn

Deputy Director aidan.woodburn@spikeisland.org.uk

Board of Trustees

  • Linda Brothwell Artist and studio holder. Associate Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London
  • Louise O'Donnell Chief Executive, John James Bristol Foundation (Interim Chair)
  • Catherine Frankpitt Founder and Director, Strike Communications
  • Tessa Jackson OBE Independent curator, writer and cultural advisor
  • Jacqueline Kingsley Fundraising and organisational development specialist
  • Marie Bak Mortensen Director, Create London
  • Paula Newport Director of People and Culture, Aardman Animations Ltd
  • Imran Perretta Artist and Educator
  • Jazlyn M Pinckney Head of Workforce Development, One Dance UK
  • Professor Dorothy Price Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

More in Community

Lots of visitors gathered in the gallery - the photograph is focussed on one man in particular who is looking straight at the camera, smiling and clapping.

Our community

Studio artists
A photograph of a grey breeze block wall, featuring two closed doors - the left door is red and the right door is pink.

Studio Review Process
Spike Island Associates logo

Spike Island Associates
Spike Island Workspace logo

Spike Island Workspace
Theatre company Wise Children have a meeting in their studio. Their studio is grey with lots of different types of chairs and a large box light in the shape of the letter R

Creative businesses
A member of Spike Print Studio lays out small bits of paper that have been printed with highly decorative designs.

Spike Print Studio
A visitor studies the art on display at UWE's graduate show 2017. Some bunting decorated with the Union Flag hangs with 'Bloody Hell' written across it.

UWE Fine Art
Spike Island
133 Cumberland Road
Bristol BS1 6UX
United Kingdom
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Opening Hours

Gallery Wednesday to Sunday 12–5pm
Café Tuesday to Saturday: 10am–5pm, Sunday 10am–4pm
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