BA Fine Art Studios exhibition (Image by Dan Weill)
This year’s Spike Island Open Studios was a big success, attracting well over 6,000 visitors to see behind the scenes of Spike Island’s vast spaces, home to over 70 artists’ studios, Spike Print Studio and UWE Fine Art.
BA and MA Fine Art students staged ambitious exhibitions, performed live work, designed a bar and ran workshops across the weekend. Our UWE X Spike Island Graduate Fellows also opened their studio to show new work, and ran a ‘Corner Shop’, packed with limited editions and publications for sale.
Students, alumni and other members of the public also had the chance to visit the studios of the many artists who contribute to UWE School of Arts programmes as Lecturers, Associate/Guest Lecturers and mentors.
See some of the documentation from UWE’s participation in this incredible weekend below.
Beltane Dance Performance in UWE’s Fine Art Studios (Image by Millie Edwards)
BA Fine Art Studios at Spike Island Open Studios 2025 (Image by Dan Weill)
Screenprinting workshop led by BA students at Spike Island Open Studios (Image by Dan Weill)
Shadows of Tomorrow exhibition in BA Fine Art Studios (Image by Dan Weill)
Steganography exhibition in UWE Fine Art studios (Image by Dan Weill)
UWE MA Fine Art exhibition at Spike Island Open Studios 2025 (Image by Dan Weill)
UWE MA Fine Art exhibition at Spike Island Open Studios 2025 (Image by Dan Weill)
Student-designed bar at Open Studios (Image by Dan Weill)
Graduate Fellows’ Studio (Image by Dan Weill)
Graduate Fellows’ Studio (Image by Dan Weill)
Graduate Fellows’ Studio (Image by Dan Weill)
Graduate Fellows’ Studio (Image by Dan Weill)
UWE BA Fine Art Studios at Open Studios 2025 (Image by Dan Weill)
Amak Mahmoodian’s studio at Spike Island Open Studios 2025
Natasha MacVoy’s studio at Spike Island Open Studios 2025 (Image by Dan Weill)
Harriet Bowman’s studio at Spike Island Open Studios (Image by Dan Weill)
UWE MA Fine Art exhibition at Spike Island Open Studios
