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Bristol Contemporary Print Centre - open access print studio based at Spike Island.

07/06/2026

It’s our portfolio courses final term before their end of year show! Year in Textiles have been busy working in our Screenprint studio this week 🌟

Fancy spending a year printing with us? Book your portfolio course for 2026/27 today! Link is in bio 🔗

04/06/2026

Huge thank you to everyone who joined us over the weekend for Hammer Chen’s exhibition Light of Magic 🪄

Chen’s copper photogravure prints brought a gentle magic to SPS with their cinematic imagery. It was great have the studio filled with chat about the non-toxic approach to cooper photogravure Chen has been researching this past year, as part of her Art Council England DYCP award.

Downstairs Spike Island () also launched their summer exhibitions from artists, Tohé Commaret and Nancy Lupo. It was such a treat to have the building buzzing for the launch party!

01/06/2026

Powering through the heatwave, our Introduction to Letterpress attendees made some wonderful prints and cards last week ☀️💪 Thank you for leading a brilliant introduction to the. Wonder of Letterpress!

28/05/2026

Only one day to go! ⏳

Party with us launch party of Hammer Chen: Light of Magic at Spike Print Studio!

Light of Magic is an exhibition of copper photogravure prints by Hammer Chen exploring the quiet magic within everyday moments. Hammer Chen’s work is shaped by themes of memory and travel. Photogravure possesses a unique, almost archival quality, evoking a sense of nostalgia through near-cinematic imagery. Chen draws on this quality to explore the shift from documentation to personal perception.

In 2025, Chen was awarded an Arts Council England DYCP grant to research non-toxic approaches to copper photogravure. This exhibition brings together the results of this research, where technical enquiry meets a more sustainable practice.

Celebrating artist printmakers who are technically and thematically pushing the possibilities of print, this is the first of our Spike Print Studio exhibitions to coincide with Spike Island’s opening weekend. Spike Island () are presenting their summer exhibitions, Tohé Commaret: Mijitas and Nancy Lupo: Several Chickens Later. Discover the most significant presentations of Commaret and Lupo’s works in the UK to date, as both present newly commissioned work at Spike Island this summer.

Hammer Chen: Light of Magic
Free Entry
Launch Party: Friday 29 May, 6-11PM ( galleries open 6-9PM
Open: Saturday 30 & Sunday 31 May, 12-5PM

25/05/2026

🎉 This is your invitation to celebrate the launch of Hammer Chen: Light of Magic at Spike Print Studio! Coinciding with Spike Island’s Summer Opening of Tohé Commaret: Mijitas and Nancy Lupo: Several Chickens Later.

Alongside exploring the exhibitions, catch vinyl DJ sets from Noods Radio resident Amaia and Whitts, who will be spinning everything from funk, disco and groove to bass, dubstep and post-club from 8pm onwards in our onsite café-bar Emmeline. Cocktails, local wine and beers, and alcohol-free options will be being served throughout the evening.

6–9pm: Spike Print Studio and Spike Island galleries open
6–11pm: Café-bar open
8–9.30pm: Whitts DJ set
9.30–10.50pm: Amaia DJ set

More information can be found on website.

21/05/2026

We are very pleased to announce that Isobel Robey is the next recipient of the prestigious Peter Reddick Bursary for 2026-27!

As a recent graduate of Cardiff Metropolitan School of Art and Design, Isobel’s work is experimental and interdisciplinary, spanning handmade artist books to large scale installations. At the work’s core is play. Isobel loves pushing boundaries of traditional printmaking and experimenting by combining techniques. Inspired by their surroundings, Isobel’s work explores familiarity, home, fragmentation, and the layered nature of spaces.

Isobel has already been busy printing in our studio and we are looking forward to seeing how the work develops this year!

Image 1: Isobel Robey printing at SPS
Image 2: Isobel Robey, Sunlit Hours (2025)
Image 3: top - Isobel Robey, a house covered in dawn (2024); bottom - Isobey Robey, nesting (2025)

20/05/2026

⭐️ New Evening Portfolio Course Added ⭐️

Spend a year intaglio printing with us! We’ve just added our new 1 Year Intaglio portfolio course for 2026-27!

This year long course covers the breadth of intaglio printmaking using an etching press. You will be introduced to: intaglio drypoint etching, tetrapak, collagraph, monoprinting, hard and soft ground etching, aquatint, open bit and spit bit methods and photopolymer.

Our portfolio course are an excellent opportunity to build a portfolio of work, to develop confidence and ideas in your own practice, and to learn new skills.

1 Year Intaglio | Etching with
Mondays, 6-9pm
£1,525

Book on via our website, link is in bio 🔗

19/05/2026

Our Get Inky Without Chemicals course were immersed in a sea of card and tape this week making their collagraph plates. Can’t wait to see what these look like printed! 🗂️✂️

17/05/2026

This Sunday we’re celebrating linocuts made by our members. All of these prints and more are available to buy on our website

1. ‘Sunflowers’ Linocut by Wenda Bartlett
2. ‘Pipefish Pepping’ Linocut by Steph Renshaw
3. ‘A Red Squirel’s Revenge’ Reduction linocut by Saskia Richmond
4. ‘Reading Corner’ Lino print by Sarah Boyce
5. ‘Evening walk’ Lino print by Sandra C***s

12/05/2026

On our Drawing Everywhere course with , we really do mean drawing everywhere! Make the most of the sunshine this summer and develop your drawing practice in different location across Bristol.

All levels of experience welcome! Whether you’ve never drawn and want to learn the basics or you have an experienced practice and are looking for motivation and feedback.

5 Week Drawing Everywhere
Wednesdays, 10am-1pm
June 3 - July 1
£129

Book on via our website, link is in bio 🔗

Address

133 Cumberland Road
Bristol
BS16UX

Telephone

+441179290135

Website

http://www.spikeprintstudio.org/

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