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Artists and Social Enterprises

There are a whole host of individuals and organisations based here. Priority is given to creative practitioners, social enterprises or those locally based. There is a huge range from a variety of practices, you can see who they are below.

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  • 2A1M Studio

    Adriana, Lauren and Josh form this young architectural practice. They are dedicated to thoughtful design and believe that understanding a client’s brief is key to finding imaginative architectural solutions. Website: www.2a1m.co.uk Instagram: @2a1m_studio…

  • Anna Haydock – Wilson

    Anna Haydock-Wilson connects people through participatory activities to encourage discussion and action around shifting societal status quos.

  • Ben Hartley

    Ben Hartley is a Bristol based artist primarily working in sculpture and installation.

  • Black Acre Records

    Since our inception in 2007 our mission has been one of discovery. We have endeavoured to dig out the treasure buried in pirate radio playlists, forever hunting that golden, ‘Untitled’ by ‘Unknown’, streaming unheard in the deluge. Curation is our calling card.

  • Bristol Co-operative Gym

    Bristol Co-operative Gym is an inclusive, supportive gym that's run by its members.

  • Buoys Buoys Buoys

    Buoys Buoys Buoys is a Swansea-born bard working in live performance, costume, and installation.

  • Camille Straatman

    Camille is a stained glass artist and metal worker. Her work often explores the boundaries between the natural world and our dream worlds.

  • Connexus PCN

    Connexus Primary Care Network brings together five GP Practices serving 50,000 patients in the Brislington, St Annes, Knowle, Totterdown and Stockwood areas of South Bristol.

  • Daryl Hooper – THRAWAN

    Daryl (she/her) is a textile artist, teacher and quilt maker, as well as a community arts facilitator and visible mender. She believes that everyone has a story to tell, and that making together is a beautiful way to share those stories.

  • Day School

    Day School offers artists a shared studio space alongside monthly education days with guest artists, support and advice for work and careers, and other professional development opportunities, community projects and social occasions.

  • Ellie Shipman

    Eleanor Shipman is a participatory artist and illustrator living and working in Bristol.

  • Emma Geen

    Climate activist, author, artist, creative climate events and researcher

  • Emma Gregory

    Emma Gregory is an artist, now living in Bristol, although formerly of London, Leeds and Liverpool.

  • Helen Grant

    Helen Grant uses a variety of means and materials to produce wryly humorous objects, paintings and textile works. Her practice is intentionally erratic, veering between untidy abstraction and cartoon-like representation. She is interested in the absurd, and in the relationships between comedy and pathos, colour and form. In her most…

  • Henry Kenyon

    Photographer + craft workshop facilitator.
    lfp.henrykenyonphotography.com
    carefulnow.org

  • Intrinsic

    Supporting organisations with all aspects of children’s play through training, space auditing, design and consultancy.

  • Jessica Akerman

    Jessica Akerman works across textiles, sculpture, drawing, painting and assemblage.

  • Jo Barker

    Jo (she her) is one half of Black Bark Films, a female led documentary production company that evokes authentic and meaningful conversation by working collaboratively with our clients.

  • Jo Walter

    I am an artist living and working in Bristol. My current work is focussed on memories from my childhood and from the more recent past. I use painting and drawing to explore this theme. My large drawing Room of our Childhood was made with contributions from my siblings who all added their own memories to mine.

  • Joe Tymkow

    Joe is a non-commercial artist; his practice is multidisciplinary in nature, and includes, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation, project management and curating exhibitions.

  • Karolina Ptaszkowska

    Across painting and installation, Karolina Ptaszkowska tries to articulate poetic, inter-subjective dialogues. She creates diagrams of fragmented thoughts and emotions that operate fluidly between the future and the past, which she wants to bring to the now.

  • Katie Holloway

    Katie is a graphic designer, curator and mural painter. She is part time design lead and curator of exhibitions for the wonderful family of venues at Tobacco Factory Enterprises and part time freelance. Inspired by folklore and our connection with nature, Katie also loves painting bold murals bursting with…

  • Marianne Brooker

    Marianne is the Communications Manager at Platform, a collective working towards climate and social justice.

  • Matthew Lintott

    Matthew Lintott’s work is about deep time and space, explored through the past, the wild and the remote.

  • Nick Hunt

    Nick is a writer and editor.

    He is the author of three travel books about walking in Europe – Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are, and Walking the Woods and the Water – as well as a work of ‘gonzo ornithology’, The Parakeeting of London, and a short story collection, Loss Soup.

    His most recent book is an alternate history novel, Red Smoking Mirror. He is also an editor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project.

  • Paul Phare – Energy4All

    Paul is Development Manager with Energy4All, a not-for-proft social enterprise that supports community groups in the development, funding, construction and operation of community owned renewable energy projects.

  • Samantha Shepherd Counselling

    Sam Shepherd Quality affordable counselling offered face to face in St Anne’s Bristol or via zoom. Sam is a fully qualified integrative counsellor offering counselling to individuals in the Bristol area. She has experience of working with anxiety, depression, low confidence/self esteem, relationship issues, bereavement and domestic abuse.  Through…

  • Sarah Hollingworth

    Sarah is a director at 00, who has expertise in both architectural design and research, specialising in workspace, community and co-design projects.

  • Studio Mothership

    Studio Mothership is a graphic design practice based in Bristol (UK) founded by Lucy Sloss and Ken Borg. They design graphic identities, books, websites, posters & printed matter, way-finding systems, environmental and exhibition graphics. They do this for cultural institutions, charities, private and commercial clients.

  • The Bio-Leadership Project

    Our mission is to change the story of leadership by working with nature. We are a collaborative, education-based platform and network geared towards developing a new story of human progress. With nature at our core, we are working towards new regenerative models of organisation in society. 

  • The Flushrooms

    The Flushrooms ran by founder Antony Potts, is Anne's House Mushroom Farm.

  • Tim Ryan

    Tim Ryan is an artist living in Bristol working across sculpture, drawing and AV.

  • Ubuntu Play and Creative Therapies CIC

    Ubuntu Play and Creative Therapies CIC are a non-profit organisation who offer play therapy for children aged between 4-12 years.