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).
After Herbert 20-24 November – private view, Wednesday 20th November 4.30-6.30pm Join the team from Negative Thinking CIC to celebrate the faces of Bristol. Taken at The Launderette over a few hours during the Herbert Shergold exhibition Now Keep Quite Still, the negatives have been lovingly developed and hand printed in the darkroom by Tim Pearse, owner […]
Bristol Photo Festival is an international biennial of contemporary photography, shaped by the movements, ideas and histories of Bristol. The festival includes exhibitions, talks and workshops, bringing together leading international photographic voices in dialogue with Bristol’s many communities.
‘The World a Wave’ The opening week of the festival will take place from 16 – 20 October 2024, with a wide range of talks and events organised across the city.
https://bristolphotofestival.org
Croft Lab was a month long residency shared by members of the artist group Space Place Practice. The work ranged from research and development of new or current work, some collaborations, the running of workshops, fieldtrips/ walks, a symposium and a couple of public open viewings of work produced.
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 […]