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Past Events
Here are the most recent events we had listed at Spike Island, to give you a flavour of what goes on there
September 2025
- →Showcase: UWE Bristol MA Degree Show 2025
September 2024
- →Showcase: UWE Bristol MA Degree Show 2024
June 2021
- →Showcase
November 2018
- Lady Nade
July 2017
- →A Midsummer Night's Dream
May 2015
- →Open Studios Weekend
February 2015
- Amy Mason
- Behind The Scenes Studio Visits
- Test Space: Laurie Lax
- Curator Swap: Margot Heller
- Exhibition Tour
- Baby Art Hour
- Performance As Process
- I Am Making Art: Hands-On Activities
January 2015
- Novel Writers: Sarah Perry
- →Isabelle Cornaro
- Exhibition Previews: Témoins Oculaires / Building 519, And Other Pfizer Tales
- Baby Art Hour
- The CHAMP Experience
December 2014
- Exhibition Tour
- I Am Making Art
- Baby Art Hour
November 2014
- Sarah Angliss, Hákarl & Friends
October 2014
- Exhibition Buggy Tour
- Novel Writers
- Behind the Scenes Studio Visit
- →Exchange Exhibition
- Baby Art Hour
- Exhibition Tour
- →Anna Franceschini: Laws Of Attraction
- I Am Making Art
September 2014
- Paperwork Magazine Launch
- Novel Writers: Zoe Pilger
- Bristol Doors Open Day
- Artist’s Talk: Patrick Staff
- Design Talk: Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad
- I Am Making Art: Hands- On Activities
- Exhibition Tour
August 2014
- Exhibition Tour
- In Conversation: Aurélien Froment, Anna Craycroft and Michelle Henning
- I Am Making Art
July 2014
- How To Prepare Your Work For Sale
- Novel Writers: Lauren Owen, The Quick
- →Aurelian Froment: Fröbel Fröbeled
- Exhibition Tour
- Exhibition Preview: Summer Exhibition
- Exhibition Preview
- I Am Making Art: Hands-On Activities
- Maddie Leach
June 2014
- Nathan Filer
- Performance: David Raymond Conroy
- Exhibition Tour: MI!MS
- Baby Art Hour
- I Am Making Art
- Artist Talk: MI!MS
May 2014
- →Spike Island Open
- →Andy Holden: MI!MS
- Exhibition Preview: MI!MS
February 2014
- Tim Etchells
- Emptyset
- Novel Writers: Robert Glancy
- →Cevdet Erek: Alt Ust
- Exhibition Tour: Alt Üst
- In Conversation: Cevdet Erek And Ben Borthwick
- Baby Art Hour
- Exhibition Preview: Alt Üst
- Behind The Scenes Studio Visits
- I Am Making Art
January 2014
- Artist's Talk: Aaron McPeake
- Persona: Magazine Launch
- Behind The Scenes Studio Visits
- Baby Art Hour
- I Am Making Art
December 2013
- Behind The Scenes Studio Visits
- Plenderleith Scantlebury Workshop
- Extra Curricular
- I Am Making Art
- David Batchelor Talk
- Spike Archipelago
November 2013
- Flatlands Exhibition Tour
- Spike Design’s Open Wednesday
- →David Batchelor: Flatlands
October 2013
- Extra Curricular
- Spike Film And Video: One To Ones
- Bristol Writers’ Conference
- Behind The Scenes Studio Visits
- Meet The Fellows
- I Am Making Art
September 2013
- Extra Curricular
- →Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2013
- Bristol Open Doors Day
- Exhibition Tour: Bloomberg New Contemporaries
July 2013
- →If Not Always Permanently Memorably
- →Melissa Gordon: Material Evidence
May 2013
- →Spike Island Open 2013
- Harbourside Arts Night 2013
- Harbourside Arts Night 2013
April 2013
- →Jessica Warboys: Ab Ovo
- →Pley By Cara Tolmie
January 2013
- →Becky Beasley Exhibition