Community
Bath Artists Studios is more than a place where artists work, it's a place where art meets the wider community. Through workshops for children, art therapy sessions, our ongoing Patchwork Project and our graduate residency programme, we work collaboratively with our partners across the city to ensure the arts are an integral part of life for the people of Bath.
Bath Spa University & Emerge
Residency Program
Bath Artists' Studios runs its graduate residency in partnership with Bath Spa University and Emerge. Every year, a Bath Spa Fine Art Student is awarded a 6 - 10 month residency at the studios, with many staying on longer to continue developing their practice. Our artists enjoy mentoring and supporting graduates and early-stage career artists, and several of our members lecture on degree curses at the university.
Bath Spa University Intern Placements
In recent years we’ve worked with the university to offer work experience opportunities. In fact, Fine Art student Emma Mathews helped with the development of this very website!
The Patchwork Project
In association with The American Museum
Patchwork Project 26 invites the people of Bath to help create a community patchwork quilt that reflects life in the city today.
Through free, artist-led stitching workshops for adults, participants will design an individual fabric square and add words, ideas and reflections to a growing collective artwork that captures a moment in time. All materials and guidance will be provided.
Inspired by America 250 - the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the project reflects on the hopes and needs that connect people across generations. While the world has changed dramatically, many human concerns remain constant: belonging, security, friendship, family and the opportunity to create together. The finished patchwork will become a community time capsule, shaped by the voices, memories and imagination of Bath residents.
Curated and led by Emma Reichenbach of Bath Spa University, supported by volunteer artists from Bath Artists’ Studios, and developed in partnership with the American Museum & Gardens, the project also aims to involve as many charities, community groups and civic organisations as possible, helping to build a work that represents a broad cross-section of Bath.
If you or your organisation would like to take part, please contact Emma Reichenbach at patchworkproject26@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram @BathPatchworkProject
Graduate Residency 2026 - Amelie Wray’s closing exhibition “To Withstand and Withold” at The Roper Gallery
Bath Artists’ Studios New branding and logo design 2023. Project Managed by Simon Taylor (Development Officer (2021-23) and Artist) in collaboration with Mytton Williams
Design Concept
In May 2023 we are launching a new fresh identity for Bath Artists' Studios. We want to reach out to the community in Bath and further afield to promote our space for making, networking and developing creative opportunities.
I have been leading this project through artist conversations and discussions; What is an art studio? What is an art community? What is needed to have a sustainable creative practice? The artist's research led to several reoccurring keywords, Community, Creativity, Space and Opportunity. These words acted as the catalyst for mapping out a vision. Last summer, Mytton Williams, a leading creative design agency based in Bath, kindly got on board to channel the research into a visual concept. The open conversations led to a vital question, what is an artist's creative art space? It is more than a physical studio space. It is the virtual space, the external working spaces and the artist's headspace. The result was to have a visual communication that acts as an umbrella for all the different art practices and captures the versatility and flexibility of a creative community.
Simon Taylor
Development Officer