Bristol Visual Arts & Independent Culture
The range that makes Bristol's independent identity real: civic galleries, international contemporary-art production, and artist-run, activist and street-art spaces.
Bristol's visual culture runs from the Royal West of England Academy's historic exhibition tradition through Spike Island and Arnolfini's international contemporary-art programmes to Centrespace's artist-run studios and PRSC's street art and community activism in Stokes Croft. Reading it as one collection, not scattered venue rows, is the only honest way to represent a city whose independent and DIY scene is as central to its cultural identity as its institutions.
5 venues
Arnolfini
A Harbourside centre for contemporary visual art, performance, dance and film.
Arnolfini is a leading UK centre for contemporary visual art, performance, dance, film and music, housed in a former harbourside warehouse with a changing exhibitions and public ev…
Explore venue →Spike Island
An international contemporary-art production space with around 70 working artist studios.
Spike Island is Bristol's international centre for production and exhibition of contemporary art, in an 80,000 sq ft former industrial building combining public exhibitions with ar…
Explore venue →Royal West of England Academy
A Grade II* listed Clifton academy blending historic exhibition tradition with contemporary shows.
Royal West of England Academy is a historic Bristol art academy and gallery on Queen's Road in Clifton, presenting open exhibitions, Academician shows, contemporary art and public…
Explore venue →Centrespace
An artist-run gallery and studio complex in the Old City, independent and locally rooted.
Centrespace is an artist-run gallery and studio complex on Leonard Lane in Bristol's Old City, showing changing exhibitions by Bristol-based and visiting artists alongside working…
Explore venue →PRSC
A Stokes Croft community arts organisation built on street art, murals and grassroots projects.
PRSC (People's Republic of Stokes Croft) is a community arts and social enterprise organisation on Upper York Street in Stokes Croft, running a gallery and shop alongside street ar…
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