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Partners in Print

Image by Frea Buckler

Spike Print Studio (SPS) and University of the West of England (UWE) are establishing an exciting new venture that embraces the multifaceted nature of the professional print studio. The project will grow community engagement by creating sustainable opportunities for learning, exhibiting, editioning and professional development for young people who would not otherwise have access to such opportunities.

The venture was launched in October 2018 with an exhibition at UWE Bower Ashton. This exhibition brought together artists who have worked in both organisations through the opportunities created for them,  giving them space to tell their story about openings created and where it has led them. The exhibition reflected the extraordinary talent and output of those involved, supported by artist statements on their experience of working collaboratively with SPS and UWE. 

What happens next?

The exhibition was the starting point for gathering support and patronage for developing UWE and SPS’s collaborative educational editioning project which will create opportunities for young people to work in a professional artistic environment with a wide range of artists and editioners.  Working in print will allow them to develop their artistic practice whilst being supported by a wide range of practitioners able to guide, advice and promote them. 

 

 

Browse our community projects

  • Home Print Project/Mobile Print Project 2020-2022

    A community project supported by Quartet Community Foundation with the purpose of continuing its refugee and asylum seeker and young people's programmes whilst the studio is closed during lockdown, providing printing packs to use in the home or in community settings and a series of demonstration videos.

  • Partners in Print

    Joint project between SPS and UWE to grow community engagement by creating sustainable opportunities for learning, exhibiting, editioning and professional development for young people who would not otherwise have access to such opportunities.

  • This Place-Refugee Workshops

    Spike Print Studio offers free monthly workshops to asylum seekers and refugees from Borderlands.

  • SPS/UWE Scholarship

    Working in partnership, SPS and UWE, Bristol are creating opportunities for UWE, Bristol students and Spike Print Studio members.

  • Artist donated prints

    A number of artists have been kind enough to donate work to help us fundraise for equipment