Gravity is Nick Grellier’s solo exhibition of drawing, sculpture, text and textile works, and experimental film made with Anna Cady. While ‘gravity’ suggests a weighty seriousness to the work - a tethering to the earth and it’s pull- there is a material and linguistic playfulness throughout Nick’s practice.

Showcasing artwork created by some of the South West’s freshest creative minds. Join us to explore a wide variety of visual work produced by our students throughout the academic year.

A special collaborative exhibition at Prema with Helen Hardaker, Helen Blencowe, Lucy Inder and Amanda Gee.

Helen Hardaker's narrative-fuelled paintings, drawings and prints describe ambiguous human landscapes, some furious, some funny. Lucy Inder is a landscape painter whose paintings are full of colour and pattern reminiscent of the Fauvists.  Amanda Gee’s new intuitive work is a series of recent paintings using acrylic paint on canvas. Helen Blencowe is an abstract artist based in Stroud. She makes intuitive paintings that feel calming and joyful, using gestural brushwork and mark making.

Artist talk and Artwork Reveal
Wednesday 10th June 7.30pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
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Join Sickboy to discuss the benefits and challenges faced making use of empty shops on a meanwhile basis. Sickboy is passionate about community and inspiring people to create, this topic will be discussed from an artist’s perspective. Highlighting to property owners the benefit of activation and the ease of collaborating with artists to bring the community together and support local businesses operating in the town centre. 

Artwork on show until 21st June

At Lansdown Gallery representing the 2026 routes, the SITE Exhibition features all artists taking part in our Open Studios. It’s a unique opportunity to see artwork from each artist, arrange visits to suit your interests and get a preview of what to expect.

Join Painted Palms in Five Valleys Shopping Centre for an exciting variety of workshops. Painting, ink drawing, candle painting, lino printing, Gelli printing and more.

Nik Ramage is a mechanical sculptor, bringing odd ideas to life with moving parts and found objects. For his residency at SVA, he will show Double Take, a two-week show of mechanical oddities and everyday objects having unexpected encounters.

Showcasing 12 Stroud-based artists, whose sculptural practices incorporate multiple mediums, from bronze to feathers. Including work by Daniel Chadwick, Abigail Fallis, Kim Francis, Nick Grellier, Rachel Howard, Emily Lucas, James Merry, Polly Morgan, Colin Reid, Lorraine Robbins, Alice Sheppard Fidler and George Taylor.

SVA is working with Zerodig Farm and Curriculum For Life to lead a creative engagement programme that brings together young creatives, families, and artists to explore the intersection of science, farming, and global stories through participatory art. Sophie Ferrier is a multi-media, interdisciplinary ecological artist/ craftsperson near Hay on Wye and is our resident artist at Zerodig for Open Studios.

Before starting his career as a curator at Arnolfini in 1974, Clive studied printmaking at Bath Academy and subsequently taught. This exhibition shows mostly unexhibited prints made by him in a variety of techniques, alongside a drawing by Michael Craig-Martin who taught him at Bath.

Painswick Rococo Garden Plein Air Exhibition is a collection of work by artists who have painted in the Garden during 2025/2026. This has been as winning or highly commended participants in the annual Plein Air Competitions and/or as Artists in Residence.

An Exhibition by Gloucestershire's most exciting contemporary artists. We invite you to immerse yourself in this feast of colour. Showcasing the large-scale enigmatic & captivating paintings of Liz Boyce, Nancy Grayley, Sarah Granville & Vanessa Clemente Vincerò.

Stroud collective PaintPrintClay - Maggie Howe, Mandy Scott and Elizabeth Lee present a new series of works including paintings and drawings, printmaking and ceramics. The expansive theme is what inspires us as artists - whether it’s capturing light and shadow in landscapes, telling stories or celebrating our art heroes.

Multidisciplinary works by Angela Findlay trace forgotten chapters and lives lingering in the spaces between what is known. Memory falters, but the heart remembers. Retrieval binds real and imagined – the artist as plumber, reassembling fragments to restore flow. Check website for events accompanying this exhibition.

After her mother’s passing, Rita Long gathered fragile plants from the garden they once tended. In intimate, carefully lit photographs, petals and stems slowly collapse, reflecting lineage and inherited memory. Decay becomes remembrance. The garden becomes an archive. Photography carries forward what can no longer be held.

Expressive and self-reflective works of art and writing by adults with learning disabilities, mental health issues, and dementia, following on from our successful Being Human exhibition at the SVA last November.

Fluid Memory explores themes of childhood and nostalgia, reinterpreting personal memory through a combination of paint pouring and figurative realism. The paintings are characterised by organic streams of cellular and vacuolar forms that merge seamlessly with realistic figures.

A series of oil paintings by artist F. John Owen harnessing the raw presence of standing stones. From Carn Euny to Boscawen-un, Owen’s paintings are inspired by the megaliths of Cornwall and their geological and ceremonial significance.

'‘Roaming Rites’ is a solo exhibition of reconstructed landscape paintings by James D. Wilson at This House. Developed during his 2023 artist-in-residence, the works transform fleeting views into layered compositions, capturing movement, memory, and the quiet rituals of passage through landscape.

Bex Burch joins us for a dive into the ‘unknown’, taking apart her techniques and instruments through deep listening to expand her practice in this special Stroud residency.

A multi media disciplinary programme featuring a photographic work reflecting on the alienating experience of growing up black in the Cotswolds.

With Hawkwood discover the art of writing about people, places and wildlife with award-winning tutors Stephen Moss and Gail Simmons. Whether you’re beginning your writing journey or refining your craft, this interactive course will help you capture experiences, emotions and ideas on the page.