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Sarah Duncan’s artist residency in Hämeenkyrö, Finland
Member Sarah Duncan’s drawings shown here are the result of her recent month-long residency in Hämeenkyrö, Finland. Sarah says “During my time in Finland I was interested in how the element of water can absorb and reflect light in a variety of forms. The starting point for my work on the residency was wondering how I […]
Posted April 16, 2018“On Paper” International Printmaking Award comes to Spike Print Studio
ON PAPER is a project to promote the art of printmaking and develop connections between printmakers around the world. It is based in Barcelona and run by an art association with Nuria Melero as a main organiser. The shortlisted artists for the On PAPER Award 2018 will be exhibited in the Spike Print Studio at Spike Island, Bristol […]
Posted April 16, 2018Molly Lemon
Molly Lemon has be awarded a scholarship from Spike Print Studio to complete the 1 year Contemporary Relief course. I asked Molly to tell us about herself and her experience on the course. “As a printmaker in Bristol, Spike Print Studio was always somewhere I was interested in but had never found the time to […]
Posted February 22, 2018Blank Light
Nick Greenglass exhibition at SPS This years Peter Reddick bursary awardee Nick Greenglass came to the award from a background in hybrid printmaking, developing techniques that mix a wide range of printing processes from digital inkjet, silkscreen, laser-cut and relief. With the Bursary being set up for artists seeking to advance relief printmaking in experimental […]
Posted February 5, 2018Jess Bugler “Memory States”
Jess Buglar is our current Peter Reddick Bursary Award winner. Jess Bugler explores the nature of traumatic memory in her exhibition Memory States at The Courtyard. Her work aims to evoke the extraordinariness of the traumatic narrative, where each piece is a captured fragment. An exploration of a state of memory. An attempt to convey something both […]
Posted January 30, 2018Gail Mason “Breathe”
“Breathe” is a new exhibition by multi award-winning printmaker and artist Gail Mason. The exhibition is a collection of works which serve as a reminder to take time out from busy lives and to appreciate the wonder and space that the natural landscape provides. Through the paintings, Gail plays with the experience of a journey […]
Posted January 29, 2018Shape Arts Open
Congratulations to Amy Hutchings who has been selected for this years Shape Open The 2018 Shape Open, this year titled “Collective Influence”, is a group exhibition of artwork created by both disabled and non-disabled artists in response to provocations such as: what influences you? How does influence go further than inspiration? What power does influence have to […]
Posted January 22, 2018UWE SPS Scholarship
Ruth Ander is one of our UWE SPS scholars. Ruth gets her inspiration from water, light and vapour. Her techniques are perfectly suited to expressing these inspirations. Delicate, translucent drifts of colour on fine tissue paper and traditional hand-made Japanese paper. Painted prints or printed paintings – the results are multi-layered impressions. Her prints are […]
Posted January 17, 2018UWE SPS Scholarship
Amy Hutchings has been selected as one of our Spike Print Studio and UWE scholars. Amy says “I have been recently working with a key Ophthalmologist from Bristol University on a collaborative project. The project involves visually interpreting their research and advances in sight restoration, which has prompted me to think about a broader audience, […]
Posted January 15, 2018Printing ‘Caldera Overlook’ by Emma Stibbon
In summer 2017 Emma Stibbon printed Caldera Overlook, her largest work to date at Spike Print Studio. Together with Amy-Jane Blackwell of Ink on Paper Press and Lisa Takahashi, artist and tutor at Spike Print Studio, they spent many arduous hours realising this extraordinary work and producing an edition of 10.
Posted December 14, 2017