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Spike Island

133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UX

www.spikeisland.org.uk Opens in new window

Centre for contemporary visual arts production with a programme of residencies (including the Henry Moore Fellowship, Spike Island Curatorial Residency, Visiting Arts Residency, Charles Wallace Trust (India) Award, SW Arts Residency). Houses over 70 artists' studios, exhibition space and workshop facilities (see also Spike Island Printmakers).

Reviews

The Edge of Collapse, Suzanne Mooney [27 March 2012]
Suzanne Mooney, 'Installation view'. Photo: Stuart Whipps. Courtesy: Spike Island and the artist. [enlarge]

Tucked away, almost hidden inside Haroon Mirza’s /|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/| at Spike Island you find the exhibition The Edge of Collapse by Suzanne Mooney. Consisting of medium and small sized giclée prints, newsprints and found  Read on…

Spike Island, Bristol
21 January - 25 March 2012

Reviewed by: Sacha Waldron »

/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/| [25 March 2012]

After winning the Silver Lion at Venice last year, Haroon Mirza's particular brand of lo-fi DIY tech geek constructa-sculpture is rapidly increasing in visibility. /|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/| is Mirza's first large scale solo exhibition, a  Read on…

Spike Island, Bristol
21 January - 25 March 2012

Reviewed by: Sacha Waldron »

Me, You, the Cosmos and Other People [24 January 2008]
David Mackintosh, 'Drawing Frame Thing ', Mixed media, 2008. Photo: Theo Wood. Oak bars made into a 3D frame for displaying the artist's drawings [enlarge]

David Mackintosh does drawings on A1 paper and lots of them. Closeted in the studio for long periods of time he produces a large number of images placed in the centre of the page using gouache. These are then edited down while the rest are  Read on…

Spike Island, Bristol
19 January - 2 March 2008

Reviewed by: Theo Wood »

Nanoq: flat out and bluesome [23 April 2004]
Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir, ‘Nanoq: Flat Out and Bluesome’, installation, 2004. [enlarge]

'Nanoq:Flat Out and Bluesome' by artists Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir and Mark Wilson is a large-scale installation comprising ten taxidermy polar bears. Each bear has been borrowed from a UK museum, given a new plinth and been re-housed in a modern  Read on…

Spike Island, Bristol
27 February - 4 May

Reviewed by: jennie savage »

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