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This Place-Refugee Workshops

Spike Print Studio offers free monthly workshops at the studio  to asylum seekers and refugees from Borderlands. Led by Amy Hutchings, an experienced arts facilitator.

Borderlands is a Drop-in Centre for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Bristol. The people who attend  have the common experience of being displaced from their families, their friends, their communities and their landscapes. Most of the people who attend Borderlands are not proficient in the English Language. Yet they need to be able to communicate – to tell their stories – of their experiences and of their homes and communities. Those who attend Borderlands also have the opportunity to attend printmaking sessions at Spike Print Studio

Asylum seekers and refugees who have  worked at Spike Print Studio over the past year have produced a remarkable series of prints which were exhibited at Spike Print Studio in November 2019.  These conveyed their shared experience of being displaced from their families, their friends, their community and their landscapes and adjusting now to a sense of belonging in their new homeland.

Monoprint by attendee on refugee workshop

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