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
Alice Sales
Alice is a Bristol based performance designer and maker, working across both set and costume. She aims to create bold, bright and playful work for all ages with a focus on sustainability.
Brook Tate
Visual artist, writer, musician and theatre maker
Double Vision / Noods / SŌN Studios
We are a production company creating art, visuals, film and music for broadcasting and online media platforms.
Elisabeth Deane
Elisabeth Deane is a painter who uses ancient traditional techniques to make work with an entirely contemporary aesthetic. Elisabeth’s colours and detailed brushwork are inspired by Islamic geometry and the miniature painting traditions of India and Iran.
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
James Bragg
I am an audiovisual artist with a particular interest in electronic music, 3D digital landscapes, and how these can be experienced through a person’s senses.
Lizzie Stone
Beautiful marriages of texture and colour, governed by the character of material and paint.
Lucianne Lassalle
Artist sculptor Lucianne Lassalle was born in Paris 1960. She now lives and works in Bristol U.K. and is based at the Arts Mansion. Lucianne shows her work Internationally and Nationally.
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.
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.
RugRebels
Creative wall and floor rugs that are not just functional but also works of art.
Simon Hall
Visual artist working at the intersection of art and medicine
Terry Burke
A painter, illustrator and aerialist.
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.
Dance
Ant Lightfoot
I am a neurodivergent, queer multidisciplinary artist, performer and access consultant. If there’s a form, I will queer it.
Circus
Alex Allan
I’m an Aerialist specialising in Aerial Rope
Bob Woods
Strictly amateur.
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.
Laura Murphy
A genre-defying, award-winning, performance maker from Bristol.
Mariona Vazquez (Mery)
Circus artist specialised in dynamic trapeze, aerial rope and duo trapeze.
Miss Radida
Multi-disciplinary aerialist and circus artist, main skill aerial silks.
Olga Kaleta
Circus and theatre maker.
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.
Ringtones
Ringtones is a solo blackgaze artist + Enter the Noid curator.
Ronnie Christopher Doyle
Ronnie is a film composer, screenwriter and voice actor from the Republic of Ireland. As well as writing scripts for radio and screen projects, he has scores to over thirty films since 2007.
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
Cats Pyjamas Costume
Cats Pyjamas supplies costumes to performing professionals in the form of hire and making.
Lady K Loves
Our aim is to bring you unique style, woven with care and sass and a positive attitude. We’re all about empowering women to feel great about themselves on the inside and out.
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.