Exhibition

9th - 16th November

Karo Plovers Ptaszkowska’s solo show features a selection of paintings and textiles from her new series, as well as found objects from her short stay in Stroud. The works explore forms as points, where apparent known forces meet invisible, spiritual ones, suggesting that reality is shaped by the interaction of these forces.

Exhibition

26th October - 2nd November

The world's oldest surviving music from the voices of enslaved people on the sugar plantations of Barbados inspired this astonishing exhibition, originally shown in Gloucester Cathedral September 2024.

Exhibition

12th - 19th October

Shapeshifting looks at our relationship with nature with an imaginative slant. Artist Janie George, works across the mediums of paint, ceramics, drawing and print.

Exhibition

27th September - 6th October

Charlotte Aiken presents a solo exhibition of paintings exploring her fascination with cloud formations and our connection to the natural world. Through her distinct perspective, Charlotte experiences a world that feels excessively exposed and vivid. Each piece captures a fleeting moment, an experience that will never be the same again.

Exhibition

12th - 21st September

The essence of Ritu Sood’s paintings is that human experience is shareable. In ‘Post Trauma’, solitary life size figures rest in expanses of seductive colour. They act as ‘portals’ to collective emotional experience. This is a sister project to ‘The Wisdom of Trauma’ shown at The Stroud Film Festival.

Exhibition

24th August - 7th September

Merging structural ideas with intuition, materiality, imagination and movement, Vera produces work that draws attention to the processes and imperfections of making.

Exhibition

9th - 18th August

Suzy Crossley’s first solo show pulls together a new body of work fabricated since moving back to Stroud, Gloucestershire, where the artist grew up. Sensitive, intimate abstract paintings comprise an exploration of colour, texture and scale. The works deliver cathartic release to viewer and artist.

Exhibition

30th July - 5th August

The Crab Museum. Inside you will find paintings, drawings, sculptures and most importantly crab specimens found washed up and Respectfully preserved. No monocles, no pipes! I collect beach plastic as a trade and this is incorporated into my art. This is perpetual absurdity and that's 'why crabs, Rex?'

Exhibition

19th -27th July

Isobel Harper and Sophie Wright present a body of visual and written work that reflects the reciprocal relationships between personal histories, internal worlds and physical environments.

Exhibition

11th -13th July

Event photography from Fran Cox, Scarlett Mcnally and Harry Peg.

Residency

2nd - 8th July

Georgia’s residency will be a release of ideas, where thought meets the air and transforms into something tangible. Her first artist residency will explore photography, words, drawing and installation.

Residency

25th -30th June

During a one-week residency at SVA Anna will develop visual responses to on-going research looking at photography & migration at the border in Calais, France.

Event

14th -16th June

For Site Festival 2024 Mat Collishaw presents ‘Sky Burial’ ; an immersive audio-visual installation and meditation on life, death and humanity set to Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, recorded and mixed in 360° spatial sound for d&b Audio Soundscape by Loss Gain.

Exhibition

Sunday 2nd June 4-6pm

The Open Studios Taster Exhibition presents artwork from each Open Studios artist, as a 'taster' for routes and studios to visit.

Exhibition

1st -21st June

Passionately championing self-taught, disabled, neurodivergent and overlooked artists from around the world, the Jennifer Lauren Gallery is showcasing all the artists the Gallery represents in one display. Following its launch in London, Why We Linger features a diverse mixture of drawings, paintings, embroidery and ceramics.

Exhibition

15th -27th May

An audio visual exhibition featuring video, print and audio developed for live events. Specially reworked for the gallery space, it explores the conditions of play through a digital composition of the human form with the ancient Japanese art of Suminagashi.

Exhibition

Friday 3rd - Saturday 11th May

On the opening night of Beltaine Dew, Vomiton will present the Amplexus performance, surrounding themes of clowning, the anonymous and amphibian extinction. In strange new beginnings we explore the relationship between fertilization and the behaviour of frogs. 

Artist Residency

Friday 19th - Saturday 27th April

Leily Mojdehi presents, ‘Stinging Nettles’, her debut UK solo presentation. Weaving inspiration from inherited traditions, an all-knowing algorithm and personal narratives, Mojdehi creates mixed-media works that act like a woven diary.

Artist Residency

Tuesday 2nd - Tuesday 9th April

With focus on strawberries, slow moving cinema and disappearing, Tori is to conjure up a web of connections and proposals by producing sculpture and film with one short collaboration in her week’s residency at SVA.

Exhibition

1st-10th July

Severn Worlding attends to the watery passages of river narrative, mythology, post-industry and post-nuclear imaginaries.

Interactive event

Friday 26th- Sunday 28th November 12-3pm

South Korean arts group The Strangers will present a location based art project Tamara in November. The project will showcase an exciting combination of an adventurous story, exploration of a space and interactive mobile technology.

Exhibition

7th-30th October
Wed - Sat 10am - 4pm

Disco Nature and Holly English curate an exhibition celebrating the humble horseshoe crab.

Call Out & Exhibition

23rd-26th September

At The Bureau for the Validation of Art, the Officials offer artists the opportunity to submit their work for Validation. The Bureau are yet to find anything that isn’t Art, and in this Public Exhibition you are invited to submit work to the show for validation.

Residency - 23rd Aug - 28th Aug

Exhibition - 30th Aug - 4th Sept

Noela James Bewry, abstract artist, will be resident in SVA John Street Gallery then following on from her residency in the SVA gallery Noela will be showing a selection of abstract paintings.

Exhibition

13 - 22 August

Showcasing their upcycled, vintage and retro summer collection, join Rochelle and Izzy, AKA 'Junk Baby' in their flamboyant, thrifted wonderland.

Exhibition

26 July - 8 August

As an artist, Rose Bendall strives to create work that combines minimalism with surrealism, mainly through sculpture. Rose enjoys experimenting with themes of repetition, movement and large, physical scale.