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Spike Print Studio (SPS) are looking for a new Chair of Trustees, who has a strong affiliation to the arts, to lead our Board at an exciting point in our development. As Chair, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the South West’s leading open-access print studio. You’ll work closely with the leadership team, provide strategic oversight, ensure excellent governance, and act as an ambassador for our organisation.

Spike Print Studio presents Portfolio Courses End of Year Show 2025!

Join us for Printing the Commons, a one-night exhibition showcasing the outcomes of a collaborative project between local printmakers and members of the storytelling group of The Bristol Commons.

We are taking a look back at this community project supported by Quartet Community Foundation which began in 2020 with the purpose of continuing the work we were doing with refugees and asylum seekers and young people' programmes whilst the studio is closed during lockdown. It provided printing packs to use in the home or in community settings and a series of demonstration videos.

As every year, the first weekend of May marks for us the building-wide Open Studios event here at Spike Print Studio. This year our members and bursary exhibitions took over every corner of the studio, and workshops led by our technicians ran over the entire weekend. You all flooded though the doors and made the most of this great chance to see for yourself what we are all about here at SPS!

We are really pleased to announce that Emily John will be the recipient of this prestigious award for 2024-2025. We look forward to working with her in the studio, seeing her work evolve.

Join us for the Spike Open, 2024!

We’re Crowdfunding! We’re asking for your help to raise money to ensure Spike Print Studio’s survival.

We are really pleased to announce that Lee Nutland will be the recipient of this prestigious award for 2023-2024. We look forward to working with him in the studio, seeing his work evolve.

Amy Hutchings ran a very productive workshop with Borderlands refugees recently and these are a few examples of their work – linocut was the chosen process. Good choice!

Exciting news! The printmaking sessions with Borderlands restarted on 5th November 2022.