We have a programme of Projects planned for 2024/25, with space for Open Calls, PopUps (short events that fit with the theme of the current Project) and Scratch Nights. Keep a look-out on Instagram for invites to submit, and also for news of upcoming events taking place within the Projects. These will also be posted on the Events page. You are welcome to contact us if you have an idea for a PopUp or Scratch Night, and we'll keep it in mind for the right Project!
Artists are invited to reflect on their time in the space and share a selection of images at the end of their time in the space. Please see the Launderette Projects below, since its opening in Sept. 2023, and prior to that at The Garage (2019 - 2023).
Due to the welcoming energy of the gallery, I finalised my residency by hosting an origami workshop where myself and members of the public made and wrote positive and welcoming messages on origami boats, which I then gave to refugees in collaboration with Bristol Refugee Rights.
The Launderette space was curated by a group of women elders who call themselves Washhouse Wimmin – Ros Martin, Silu Pascoe, Mary Phipps, Doreen Baidoo, Pauline Glanville and Savita De Souza.
Aftermath brings together new works by Sophie Hayes and Huma Mulji which explore the artists’ shared interest in how the representation of place can be used as a vehicle for the communication of psychological and emotional states.
We are a group of artists, mostly unknown to each other, with different practices. We were curious to see what would happen if we collaborated, and what this would look like, in this particular space.
The artists wanted to explore themes of grief and personal narratives through visual and auditory elements of their combined individual practices.
Geomorph are artists Colin Higginson (Bristol), Sarah Rhys (West Wales) and Emily Joy (Stroud). Geomorph share an interest in land, landscape, materiality and narrative, meaning and language. Geomorph spent the residency at The Launderette developing new work in a collaborative environment, discussing and noticing thematic and material meeting points and overlaps between our practices. Having time […]
The residency I organised / curated at the Launderette between 13/12/23 and 29/12/23 came about initially as a means of ‘releasing’ / introducing a collaborative book of illustrated prose published by Ross Bathtub at Bathtub publishing (Bristol). The book ‘I Sleep Gently in the Womb’ is written and illustrated by myself. I designed it with […]
Jo Ball is an artist and gardener based in Bristol. Her work looks at the relationships between people, plants and the surrounding world. She is interested in emotional responses to matter and invisible connections between things. Her sculptural practice uses material gathered from her allotment, often incorporating organic substances that change throughout the installation. Her […]
I am a Maker and Installation artist based at BV Studios in Bristol. I exhibit regularly Nationally and Internationally. My work is a precipitation of time consuming processes. Expectations and outcomes are left unsettled , emphasising physicality and materiality, and allowing for a spontaneous, intuitive approach. I continuously search for new ways of inhabiting and […]
This exhibition is the second instalment of an exchange between a group of artists from Bristol (The Garage) and Los Angeles (Durden and Ray) and continues the transatlantic exploration of a fluid, non-linear set of interactions through a process of cognition and abstraction. Though varied in their respective practices, each artist in “Transatlantic Accents” celebrates an […]