Exhibition
18th - 26th April
SVA John St Gallery
Life is a dance. The more you love, the more you feel. Highs come with lows. White needs Black. Colours are emotional, the only way through is to dance!
Exhibition
4th - 12th April
Death & Leisure is an ecstatic return to the birthplace of ROBBINS & ROBERTS to present an exhibition of personal, mythological and historical visual tales.
Artists Talks
Tuesday 1st April 6.30-8.30pm
Pecha Kucha comes to Stroud! 8 artists show and tell 20 images of their art practice for 20 seconds per image. A brilliant format for artists to present a slice of their work in an informal setting with dynamism, community, succinctness and beer.
Residency
21st - 29th March
Using cameras built from waste and experimental techniques, Harry documents abandoned materials as both artefact and witness, exploring how everyday debris becomes our future archaeologies.
Exhibition
20th February - 1st March
Depicting the joys and trials of everyday life, in Watching Not Helping, Helen Hardaker paints and draws through the eyes of watchful crows and the imagined lives of insects, animals, moths and birds.
Exhibition
7th - 15th February
Jussara Nazaré is a multidisciplinary Gloucester based artist with a focus on afro-queer surrealist art & performance. Her work is often full of colour, patterns and life as it blooms in many forms.
Artists Talks
14th January 6.30pm
Pecha Kucha comes to Stroud! 8 artists show and tell 20 images of their art practice for 20 seconds per image. A brilliant format for artists to present a slice of their work in an informal setting with dynamism, community, succinctness and beer.
Exhibition
10th - 18th January
This exhibition brings together a selection of creative journaling work by participants of Maternal Journal circles held by Stroud Motherhood Collective. Presenting journal pages and large collaborative pieces it aims to share the power of journaling and its positive impact on mothers’ mental health and wellbeing.
Exhibition
13th - 24th December
This exhibition sees a body of work specifically charting Ant's path out of four debilitating strokes.
27th November - 7th December
The Textile Studio will again open in the Gallery for Christmas and be bursting with festive cheer!
Residency
19th - 24th November
Evie & Jimmy explore Lisbon's gothic creatures and microworlds during their residency, A Jornada. They will create new multimedia works and share the creative ‘workings-out’ developed during their independent art school experience.
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.
Artists Talks
29th October 6.30pm
Pecha Kucha comes to Stroud! 8 artists show and tell 20 images of their art practice for 20 seconds per image. A brilliant format for artists to present a slice of their work in an informal setting with dynamism, community, succinctness and beer.
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.
Artists Talks
3rd September 6.30pm
Pecha Kucha comes to Stroud! 8 artists show and tell 20 images of their art practice for 20 seconds per image. A brilliant format for artists to present a slice of their work in an informal setting with dynamism, community, succinctness and beer.
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.
