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Conscious Clay Drawing Heads to Auction
Sam Haile Drawing from Conscious Clay Heads to Auction Sam Haile Drawing from Conscious Clay Heads to AuctionThe recent Conscious Clay exhibition featured a never before seen ink on paper drawing by Sam[...]
Feats of Clay by Dr Oliver Kent
Feats of Clay, by Dr Oliver Kent Bristol is a city with clay in its veins. From famous Bristol porcelain to distinctive Bristol delftware, ceramics are woven into its identity. You can, of[...]
Three New Loans | Nicola Mortimer
Welcoming Nicola Mortimer’s Ceramics into our permanent Collection We’re honoured to share that three beautiful ceramic pieces by the late Bristol artist Nicola Mortimer have recently been loaned to our permanent collection. Nicola’s family[...]
Calling Bristol Makers | Applications Closed
Calling local makers! Our Christmas Selling Exhibition returns this November, and we’re looking for affordable, well-crafted work from local artists and designers. If you create stationery, prints, ceramics, jewellery, or woodcrafts, we’d love to hear from you. Submit your work by 30 September for a chance to be part of this festive showcase at our Park Row gallery.
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Help us Win £1,000! The Movement for Good Award is back, and with your support we could receive a £1,000 grant. It only takes a minute to nominate us: Click the button on the[...]
Transcript of Emilie Taylor
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Emilie Taylor in Conversation
Emilie Taylor in Conversation at The Stradling Collection | Conscious Clay In May, we had the pleasure of hosting a talk with contemporary ceramist Emilie Taylor as part of our exhibition, Conscious Clay.[...]
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 free entry to the Collection's exhibitions and the[...]
Bristol Guild closure
It is with enormous regret that we acknowledge the closing of our neighbour the Bristol Guild on 30 May 2024 after 116 years of trading. Its impact has been explored in this BBC news[...]
Gordon Russell table goes home
There are some things you have, and you just know their rightful home is really elsewhere. Until recently, we were the proud custodians of this very large, heavy, beautiful oak library table with carved[...]
New look for our gallery floors in 2024
We are very pleased to be able to announce that, in addition to our ground floor gallery display, we are opening the first and second floors to our visitors. New for 2024, the new[...]
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[...]