Opening hours Gallery: Wednesday to Sunday 12–5pm Café open: Monday: 9am–3pm, Tuesday and Sunday: 10am–4pm, Wednesday to Saturday: 10am–5pm

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Image courtesy Spike Island (2025). Photography by Lisa Whiting.

FIFTY YEARS OF CHAMPIONING ARTIST LED EXPERIMENTATION

Spike Island’s 50th year is the moment to celebrate what our unique creative community has achieved.

Spike Island’s founding mission to make artistic livelihoods viable in the city is as urgent now as it was in 1976. A lack of affordable studios, unequal access to creative education, dwindling public funding and financial vulnerability continue to shape – and limit – who can sustain a career as an artist.

Give what you can to nurture experimentation and inspire the next generation of artists. Your support will play a vital role in helping us shape the future of art by enabling us to commission ambitious new work, keep our exhibitions free for all and our artists’ studios affordable.

Donations of any size are welcome and make a difference.

Thank you!

Provide inspiring materials for our workshops for families and young people
Enable a positive action bursary to our acclaimed professional development programme
Help school children from Bristol visit Spike Island and take part in activities
Contribute to an international exchange or artist residency

Thank you!

Provide inspiring materials for our workshops for families and young people
Enable a positive action bursary to our acclaimed professional development programme
Help school children from Bristol visit Spike Island and take part in activities
Contribute to an international exchange or artist residency

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Alex Cecchetti, Singing Chandelier (2018) 1000 unique blown glass pieces, waterphone, iron structure. Installation view: At the Gates of the Music Palace, Spike Island, Bristol. Photograph by Lisa Whiting

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133 Cumberland Road
Bristol BS1 6UX
United Kingdom
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Opening Hours

Gallery Gallery: Wednesday to Sunday 12–5pm
Café Monday: 9am–3pm, Tuesday and Sunday: 10am–4pm, Wednesday to Saturday: 10am–5pm
Spike Island Artspace Ltd. Registered Charity no. 1003505. Registered in England and Wales no. 2624621
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