If you’re not able to open up your own house or don’t live in BS3 but would like to take part, you can contact any of our Community Venues listed below who will be happily hosting artists.
If you would like to exhibit at any of these venues, please get in touch with the contact given by email, ensuring you provide them with the following information:
- Your name and a sentence or two about your art practice or work
- Website or social media link/s
- 3 images that represent your work, linked as small, low-res jpeg files
Once you have and a confirmed venue you can then register for the 2024 Arts Trail.
If you contact several potential venues, once you have a confirmed space in one place, please let the other venues know that you’re declining a space with them – let’s keep each other in the loop.
Community Venues
Acta Bristol – 8 inside spaces available, across 2 rooms. Spaces have walls behind but nothing can be attached to them. Tables and chairs available. Access: Fully accessible venue, suitable for wheelchair users with accessible parking spaces and toilets available. Contact: Rosa
Bedminster Methodist Church Hall – Full
Bristol Reclamation – TBC
East St Emporium – 4 spaces available, 2 are inside, 2 are outside. All spaces are freestanding. Chairs available to borrow and 2 tables available if needed. Access: There is step free access suitable for wheelchair users on the ground floor level but not to upper and lower levels in the shop. Contact: Lou
Independent Design Collective – 1 inside space available, positioned in the centre of the gift shop. Table and chair available. Please note, shop will close at 4pm on the Sunday. Access: Not an accessible venue, 3 steps up to front door. Contact: Chitra
Make Bristol – 2 inside spaces available. Spaces can be flexible, freestanding or against a wall. Chairs and tables available to use if needed. Artists will have access to wifi, toilets, tea & coffee available. Access: Step up into MAKE but a ramp is available. Accessible toilet not available. Contact: MAKE Bristol
Riverside Garden Centre – 6 spaces available. 4 of the spaces have a ‘wall’ (trellis) space behind to hang pieces from, the other 2 spaces are freestanding. Tables measuring 2m x 1m and chairs are available for use. All spaces are outside, under the covered area next to the entrance. Power sources & wifi available. Extra floor space for card/print stands will not be available to ensure accessibility. Artists ideally able to exhibit for the Garden Centre’s full opening times: Sat 9:30am-5:30pm & Sunday 10:30am-4:30pm. Access: Fully accessible including cafe. Disabled parking spaces available, flat or ramped surfaces wide enough for wheelchair access. Some gravel paths but not within exhibiting area. Accessible toilet on site. Contact: Abigail
St Aldhelm’s Church – 10 inside spaces available. Spaces are free standing, tables and screens available on a first come first served basis. Access: Fully accessible venue, suitable for wheelchair users, accessible toilets on site. Contact: Juliet
Storysmith – 2 inside spaces available. Very small amount of wall space available, shelf available for use and some of window area. 1 table available and plenty of chairs. Access: Venue access is one step up, but access ramp will be out for the weekend. Contact: Dan
The Southville Centre – 24 inside spaces available. Please note there is an additional fee of £40 per artist to be part of this community venue, to be made payable to the venue. Access: Fully accessible venue, suitable for wheelchair users with accessible parking spaces and toilets available. Download full venue details, apply to The Southville Centre by 29 April. Contact: Nadine
The Spotted Cow – TBC
Tobacco Factory Café Bar – 5 wall grids available in the Tobacco Factory Cafe bar. Each artist will have one 6×4 foot grid to display 2D work on from 12 August – 29 September. Over the Trail weekend artists will then have a table for further artwork/products on underneath their grid. Access: Fully accessible venue, suitable for wheelchair users, accessible toilets available. Contact: Katie
Tobacco Factory Saturday Art Market – Outdoor pitches available for a special Saturday Art Market. Apply directly through the Market Manager. Contact Hattie for full details.
Venue list will be updated regularly as additional venues confirm their availability.
Do you work or live in BS3?
Fancy opening your home up for the weekend for yourself or others?
Want to attract new customers to your local business?
Whether you can give a home for the weekend to 1 artist or 10, we’d love to hear from you. Get involved in our wonderful creative community and get in touch.