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Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Painting on cloth of many different bright colours and abstract detailed pattern and shapes
Pacita Abad The Sky is Falling, the Sky is Falling (1998) Oil, plastic buttons and beads, painted cloth on stitched and padded canvas, 300 x 270 cm. Work courtesy the Pacita Abad Art Estate. Photograph courtesy Pioneer Studios, Manila

Current exhibition: Pacita Abad Life in the Margins

18 January to 5 April 2020 Read more

Upcoming Exhibitions

A painting on a grid of tiles, six across and four down. The image uses watery pinks, blues, browns, greens and greys to depict a dreamy and abstract scene of women and sea creatures

Lucy Stein Wet Room

25 April to 21 June 2020 Read more
Film still featuring a man with white hair and round glasses and wearing a black tshirt, blowing into a flexible hose.

Eric Baudelaire and Alvin Curran When There’s No More Music to Write

25 April to 21 June 2020 Read more
A very colourful, dynamic painting depicting people dancing, viewed from various angles and performing different shapes with their bodies. Surrounding the figures are abstracted shapes and lines in various colours, suggesting disco lights.

Denzil Forrester Itchin & Scratchin

4 July to 6 September 2020 Read more
Photograph of five round metal sculptures on the floor in a gallery space, a white wall behind them.

Amitai Romm

4 July to 6 September 2020 Read more
Various stacks of lilac coloured avocado trays on a concrete gallery floor. The taller stacks are slightly leaning. On the distant white gallery wall is a shelf with a variety of cream coloured objects.

Veronica Ryan

19 September to 13 December 2020 Read more
A photograph of a man down a hole on a sandy beach, the top of his head is just visible.

Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer Nosferasta

23 January to 21 March 2021 Read more

Candice Lin Pigs and Poison

23 January to 21 March 2021 Read more
A still from the digital video work “She Puppet” of an animated female puppet figure with fists clenched.

Peggy Ahwesh

3 April to 13 June 2021 Read more

Past Exhibitions

Under My Skin (2019) Film still

Under My Skin

A collaboration between Spike Island, Rising Arts Agency and Integrate UK 29 November to 8 December 2019 Read more

Imran Perretta the destructors

28 September to 8 December 2019 Read more
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Current Exhibition in the Test Space

Image courtesy Phil Frankland
Phil Frankland, scan_0249, 2019

Test Space: Phil Frankland

Stainer
18 January to 2 February 2020 Read more
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More in Programme

Sriwhana Spong Ida-Ida (2019) Performance still, dancer Benjamin Ord, Spike Island, Bristol. Photograph by Max McClure

What's on
Hedwig Houben, Personal Matters and Public Affairs (2015) Live performance at Spike Island (2016) Photograph by Lisa Whiting. All works courtesy the artist and Galerie Fons Welters

Events
Mary Paterson and Genevieve Maxwell A Walk of View (she began to dissolve)

Projects and residencies
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