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Projects

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).

18/04/2022 - 12/06/2022

Martyn Cross

Martyn Cross is a visual artist and painter based in Bristol. His paintings draw upon mythology, the medieval and ideas of metamorphosis, where landscapes are personified and living things share matter. Martyn’s work has been shown nationally and internationally, most recently in the solo exhibition Earth Hymns at Ratio 3, San Francisco in 2021. This […]

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01/03/2022 - 31/03/2022

Passing: Group Residency

The residency was about developing work and ideas taken forward from work originally generated for a group show at Create Bristol: The Line of Least Resistance 20th September – 1st October 2021. There was a prior agreement to use ‘Passing’ as a focus of attention for the residency as a natural extension of ‘The Line of Least […]

Artwork by Nick Grellier and Emily Lucas
01/03/2022 - 30/03/2022

Nick Grellier and Emily Lucas

The initial partnership began when Emily asked Nick to participate in her PhD project researching drawing as an emotional, autobiographical, feminist gesture.  A series of interviews produced in-depth discussion on topics that began to intersect in issues concerning hierarchy; the problems of being a woman artist, artist mothers, the inherent difficulties in verbal and written […]

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Artwork by Beckie Upton
26/01/2022 - 04/02/2022

Beckie Upton

During my week-long residency at the garage I was able to work in a much bigger space than usual and make use of the lighting, beams and big white walls. It gave me the time, space, and silence(!), I needed, which is not always possible at my home studio which, inevitably, has become packed with […]

Artwork by Phil Root
25/10/2021 - 23/01/2022

Phil Root

Phil Root is a visual artist and Associate Lecturer for the Fine Art course at UWE. He works primarily in the field of ceramics, specifically investigating and researching relationships between function and sculpture and it’s connection to place investigating the cyclical nature of ceramics, building industry waste material and local materials. Phil currently runs a […]

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27/09/2021 - 11/10/2021

Matteo Amadio

Matteo Amadio is a musician and audio-visual artist currently based in Bristol.His current and past work focuses on interactive and generative music systems, multimedia installations and interdisciplinary projects that explore the relationship between sound and other phenomena.His interest in the use of contamination and feedback as creative factors often leads to the combination of various […]

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03/07/2021 - 25/07/2021

Kirsty Lovell, Steph Holde, Jean Smyth

We are three artists, Kirsty Lovell, Steph Holden and Jean Smyth who met during Spike Island’s Press Play course run by Emma Gregory in 2018/19.  During the lockdown we spent time together in the local environment gathering thoughts, ideas and finds. We started the residency with these shared experiences and were excited to work in […]

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01/06/2021 - 20/06/2021

Helen Acklam, Lou Baker, Alice Freeman, Alice Smith

Helen Acklam Although the Garage has been going for 18 months, this was my first time in the space.  I wanted to work with artists who were making work around similar themes  – of the body, abject, loss, identity – but with different practices. Having other artists actively engaging with my work , and the […]

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02/01/2023 - 08/01/2023

Varosha

I arrived at the Garage, my first residency, excited to have so much time and space (and headspace) away from my domestic environment but also a bit daunted. I had written down my intentions: to explore, to experiment and to work big.  So that I didn’t find myself too overwhelmed by all the big white […]

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01/04/2021 - 25/04/2021

Elliot Coffin

As an Artist I was looking for an opportunity to explore my practice, utilising recycled or found mediums to create colourful, playful, multipart pieces. Trained as an Illustrator, my recent work has transformed into a more personal expression; with an internal language communicated through mark making and motifs that adapts as it is abstracted. Normally […]

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