Behind the Scenes: Studio Visit and Building Tour

As part of the Bristol Harbour Festival, join us for a special behind the scenes tour of Spike Island where two artists will open their studio doors to the public. This is a chance to; explore the building’s unique architectural features and gain a glimpse into its previous life as a Brooke Bond tea-packing factory and meet some of the artists based at Spike Island, learn about their practice and see works in progress.

On this visit, meet artists Vivienne Baker and Florrie James. Baker is a painter whose work exists between figurative representation and experimental abstraction, steeped in themes of the ephemerality of nature and the entanglement of forms. James is a filmmaker creating short films on 16mm, using improvisation and collaboration to allow real life situations to inform her stories.

VIVIENNE BAKER

Vivienne Baker studied BA Fine Art at Coventry Polytechnic, Foundation Art Therapy at Bath, MA Multidisciplinary printmaking at UWE Bristol and attended Turps Correspondence Course 2022–24.

She has recently exhibited in The Wales Contemporary Open, Waterfront Gallery (2025); Split, Hypha Studios, Wrexham and The Dispensary, Wigan (2025); Solo exhibition at Ruskin Mill Gallery, Gloucestershire (2025); Time to Time, Peckham, London (2025), and The Department Store, Brixton, London (2025).

She has exhibited and attended residencies in both the UK and internationally such as USA (Art OMI New York), Armenia (Armenian Biennale), China, Portugal, France (Triangle Marseilles) and Tbilisi, Georgia. Her work is in the RWA’s permanent collection.

Forthcoming exhibitions in 2026 include Guernsey Art Centre Group exhibition, May 29 –June 26, and With no more sound than the mice make, Safehouse 1.Peckham, London.

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