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Exhibitions

Exhibitions

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, Dub Dance (1993) Oil on board. Copyright Denzil Forrester. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

Current exhibition: Denzil Forrester Itchin & Scratchin

Saturday 17 October 2020 to Sunday 18 April 2021 Read more

Upcoming Exhibitions

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 Along a Spectrum

Saturday 8 May to Sunday 5 September 2021 Read more
A still from the digital video work “She Puppet” of an animated female puppet figure with fists clenched.

Peggy Ahwesh Vision Machines

Saturday 25 September 2021 to Sunday 16 January 2022 Read more
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

Saturday 25 September 2021 to Sunday 16 January 2022 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 with Oba Nosferasta

Exhibition Coming Soon 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 is No More Music to Write

Saturday 5 February to Sunday 8 May 2022 Read more

Candice Lin Pigs and Poison

Saturday 5 February to Sunday 8 May 2022 Read more

Past Exhibitions

Painting on cloth of many different bright colours and abstract detailed pattern and shapes

Pacita Abad Life in the Margins

Saturday 18 January to Sunday 31 May 2020 Read more
Under My Skin (2019) Film still

Under My Skin

A collaboration between Spike Island, Rising Arts Agency and Integrate UK Friday 29 November to Sunday 8 December 2019 Read more
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Latest Exhibition in the Test Space

...something orange... exhibition lead image
Image courtesy Test Space

Test Space

...something orange...
Thursday 7 to Monday 11 May 2020 Read more
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Pacita Abad_Life in the Margins (2020) Installation view, Spike Island, Bristol. Photograph by Lisa Whiting

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