Community of Creatives
Our artist and musician tenants support our work bringing vacant and underused spaces back into community use and benefit from affordable, creative and inclusive workspaces.
We look for longer-term vacant properties to provide a base for creative individuals and organisations to flourish.
If you are an artist looking for studio space please fill out this questionnaire. You will then be added to our studio waiting list and will receive email updates when studios become available. You can also browse what studios we currently have available online.
Our artist residency scheme provides free space for artists to develop their projects.
Artspace Lifespace is a key contributor to the cultural identity of Bristol and has been responsible for some of the truly groundbreaking projects that have become iconic in the creative narrative of the city.
George Ferguson, CBE –
Former Mayor of Bristol
Visual Art
Astro-Zenica / James Crawley
James Crawley is a performance artist, combining drag, clown, stand up improvised comedy and immersive theatre. Mother and Artistic Director of The House of Savalon, James performs as Deity and Zeitgeist: Astro-Zenica
Brook Tate
Visual artist, writer, musician and theatre maker
Dean Ayotte
Photographer and film restoration technician working in TV. Interested in film photography and alternative processes like cyanotypes, salt printing, anthotypes, solargraphs and pinhole photography.
Double Vision / Noods / SŌN Studios
We are a production company creating art, visuals, film and music for broadcasting and online media platforms.
Genevieve Murray
I am an artist specialising in oil portraits, both commissions and my own work.
Graft
Graft is made up of husband and wife team Rob and Sophie Wheeler, graffiti mural artists who run graffiti workshops in the Island’s atmospheric spaces.
Heather Savage
Illustrator and Director working in music videos, authorial illustration in the form of graphic medicine, editorial across left-wing media and in Queer culture and bimbofication.
Honey Parast
An illustrator specialising in soft needle-felted sculptures.
Indiana Lawrence
Designer and printmaker
Jacknife Prints
Design and hand screen printing
Jacob Dear
Visual artist with an interest in podcasting & community.
Jeanette Wilhelm
Dimensional Contemporary Art
Jennie Cave
I make retro surreal collage influenced by life. I am inspired by the weird and wonderful world around me, my travels, and times gone by.
Kirsty Griffin
Screen-printed & embroidered appliqués and paintings
Leah Daria Ward
Irish Abstract Artist
Lizzie Stone
Beautiful marriages of texture and colour, governed by the character of material and paint.
Lucie Ebrey
Cartoonist and illustrator.
Lucy Haslam
Illustrator focusing on editorial work and small-press comics
Molley May
An illustrator and artist with a focus on drawing.
Molly Fairhurst
Artist and illustrator
Natasha Dikaya
My work is concerned with the urban environment that we live in.
Ollie Silvester
Ollie Silvester is an illustrator. He takes inspiration from the mundane and the moments between moments.
Peter Webb
Peter works predominately with traditional and alternative photographic techniques.
Rhyannan Hall / Oxidate Design
A fusion of biohues, urban counterculture and textile traditions from the Far East.
Rory Bennett
My work is as therapy for my mental health. the outcome is a journey of wellbeing and there is no end goal. for me art is about having fun, learning through play and finding a balance. this attitude forms a maximalist style of colour, shape, line and satire.
Simon Alderson Glass
Bristol based kiln formed glass artist
Simon Hall
Visual artist working at the intersection of art and medicine
Tom Marshman
A practicing performance artist with over 20 years experience working across many mediums, including – museum audio-tours, theatre & cabaret. Actively encouraging dialogue with participants, through socially engaged processes.
VisionChandra
Photographer, Picture Editor, Educator and visual Story Teller. Available for commissions.
Wild Combinations Art – Emily Jacobs
Emily Jacobs is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Bristol, she utilises paints, screen prints and illustration to create a range of visual imagery.
Circus
Alex Allan
I’m an Aerialist specialising in Aerial Rope
Chez Dunford
Chez is a Clown, Fool, Musician and Circus Artist, as well as a Massage Therapist and Yoga Practitioner.
Grania Pickard
I’m a circus-theatre maker and aerialist.
Miss Radida
Multi-disciplinary aerialist and circus artist, main skill aerial silks.
Olga Kaleta
Circus and theatre maker.
Pascal Häring
Pascal is a Bristol-based circus performer, providing high quality cyr wheel and juggling acts for every occasion and producing artistic work with the companies Swing Circus and Cirque du Soleil.
Music
Benjamin one
Audio visual artist with strong diy asthetics
Brook Tate
Visual artist, writer, musician and theatre maker
DISCOBOBULATOR
Singer. Songwriter. DJ. Head honcho of LGBTQ+ collective Grrrl Crush.
Habitus
Dusty Sounds, a recording studio that focuses on the 90’s Hip-Hop sounds with tactful Jazzy and Funk atmospheres.
Skeleton King
Skeleton King is an electronic musician and producer making garage, breakbeat and house music.
Stereocilia
John Scott is a Bristol based guitarist and composer, who performs under the Stereocilia moniker and composes music for short films and documentaries.
Submerged Tapes
Freelance Composer & Sound Designer for Games & Media.
Fashion
Ash Brooks
Brand new to this world and completely uncommercial, I have never practiced art in a professional sense. In textile painting I use bleach, as well as smaller illustrations and continuous line pieces. My main focus is textile painting, continuous line prints and hand-poked tattoos.
House of Lupa
House of Lupa produces handcrafted sterling jewellery pieces.
Lisa Bailey
Lisa manages the Sewing Room at The Island delivering courses and workshops in sewing and pattern cutting as well as offering limited memberships for shared access to the studio and it’s resources.