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The Story of Sam Haile
Academic, former board member, and friend of The Stradling Collection, Oliver Kent contextualises the importance of Sam Haile's life and work... Conscious Clay, the current show at the Stradling Gallery in Bristol, is a[...]
New Centre Manager
We are delighted to announce that Lucy Middleweek has been appointed Centre Manager of The Stradling Collection... A graduate in History of Art and Visual Culture from University of Birmingham, Lucy originally joined[...]
A welcome to National Art Pass members
The Stradling Collection is delighted to offer a warm welcome to National Art Pass members now we have joined the Art Fund. Members will receive half price entry to all our exhibitions and events.A[...]
Learning programme news
Collections
7th September - 5th October 2024 The Collections exhibition assembles students’ creative responses to the open-ended question: What is a collection? Join us for a showcase of art and design from students at Castle[...]
The Art of Play 2023
‘The plaything is the first initiation of a child to art’ --- Baudelaire The Art of Play - now extended to 29 July! - showcases amazing work from students from[...]
Picturing Lockdown 2021
The Pandemic Diaries and other projects A selection of the wonderful range of Pandemic Diaries produced by local students. In November 2020 at the start of the second lockdown our Education officer David Beech began[...]
Bristol design stories
Electricity: Emancipating Women
The All-Electric House 19 October - 16 November[...]
Collections
7th September - 5th October 2024 The Collections exhibition[...]
Equinox: Bristol Gallery Weekend
21 March - 24 March 2024The Stradling Collection are[...]
Meet our new interns
We are delighted to welcome three students as interns[...]
Maker spotlight
Geoffrey Whiting: a potter and a painter
Geoffrey Whiting had an important parallel activity as a watercolour painter, but this is a lesser known area of his art. His great knowledge of the natural world underpinned all his creativity. It was there in the coloration of his pots, and in his particular brush[...]