Gallery open 12–5pm Café open 10am–5pm

Open Studios

Open Studios

Open Studios 2018 Photograph by Lisa Whiting

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Every year over the early May bank holiday, Spike Island opens its doors to the public.

Open Studios is a chance to explore behind the scenes of this former Brooke Bond tea packing factory, home to over 70 artists’ studios, Spike Print Studio, UWE Fine Art BA/MA students, as well as many other creative practitioners including designers, writers, filmmakers, animators and photographers.

Artists' Studios at Spike Island: Sarah Wilton. Photograph by Lisa Whiting
Artists' Studios at Spike Island: Sarah Wilton. Photograph by Lisa Whiting

Visitors have the chance to meet artists in their studios and see what they were working on. Dotted around the building, screenings, performances, installations, workshops and talks take place, and some of Bristol’s best street food traders host pop-ups.

Our programme differs every year; no two Open Studios weekends are ever the same.

Visitors inside an artists' studio looking at an installation of wooden structures that look like abstracted houses tumbling from the ceiling.

Open Studios 2019

3 to 6 May 2019

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Open Studios (2017) Photograph by Max McClure

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Open Studios (2017) Photograph by Max McClure

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Spike Island Open Studios, photograph by Lisa Whiting

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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
Michael Simpson, Flat Surface Painting (2016) Installation view, Spike Island, Bristol. Photograph by Stuart Whipps

Exhibitions
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
Spike Island
133 Cumberland Road
Bristol BS1 6UX
United Kingdom
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Opening Hours

Gallery Tuesday to Sunday 12–5pm
Café Monday to Friday 8.30am–5pm
Saturday to Sunday 10am–5pm
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