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.
The Island Open Studios 2020
2020 was not a normal year by any stretch of the imagination.
The adaptability, tenacity, and extreme talent shown by each of our tenants was amazing to witness.
In 2020 we moved to a digital format. You can look back at our online open studios event with a virtual tour of the building or check out some of the workshops we hosted online. We hope to welcome you back to classes and workshops in person soon.
Photo series
We commissioned our photographer tenant Chandra Prasad to produce a series of photographs of Island tenants and staff and asked them about how 2020 has been for them.
Take a tour of our 2020 Island Tenants’ Exhibition
Make it full screen, to get the feel of walking around!
Spotlight: Contra Project
Island Circus Training Space members, Laura Murphy and Nicole A’Court-Stuart tell us about Contra Project which they set up during lockdown.
Spotlight: Robbie Cathro
Artist Robbie Cathro talked to us about his latest illustration work and a very special book he’s been working on.
Portrait workshop
Rose Popay shows us how to draw a portrait as part of a series of Artspace Lifespace workshops to encourage everyone to make art and reduce isolation.
Spotlight: Rise Youth Dance
We met with Helen Wilson from Rise Youth Dance to learn how she has built a successful dance school.
Futur Ville
Futur Ville launched on 1st June 2019 as a 5-month programme of arts activity culminating in a two-day summit with international, national and local speakers exploring the complex relationship between artists, creative communities, urban regeneration and cultural policies through talks, panel discussions and group workshops.
The Island Tenants
Circus
Visual Art
Adela Martin
Adela is a graduated Illustrator, currently working with a range of mediums with a focus on colour experimentation.
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.
Double Vision / Noods / SŌN Studios
We are a production company creating art, visuals, film and music for broadcasting and online media platforms.
Music
Skeleton King
Skeleton King is an electronic musician and producer making garage, breakbeat and house music.
Habitus
Dusty Sounds, a recording studio that focuses on the 90's Hip-Hop sounds with tactful Jazzy and Funk atmospheres.
Take a Tour of The Island
360 Tour
- Little Framing Company
- Neat Photography
- Brook Tate
- Graft Works
- Jennie Cave
- Chloe Moore
- Danny Habitus
Guide
Purple – Building Features
Green – Artists Studios
Yellow – Circus & Dance
Red – Gallery Exhibition