A music event celebrating the musical and cultural contributions of black people to British culture. High energy multi genre extravaganza, expect jungle (the father), garage (the son), dub (the Holy Spirit) and much much more.

Tickets: £6-£10 advance, £12 OTD

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

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.

An embodied approach to drawing and mark making. Dance artists Sharon Gimpel and Brenda Waite invite you to join them in exploring how the body and senses engage the imagination and creative potential in the drawing process.

The workshop will guide participants into playful, intuitive drawing in a space that fosters curiosity and experimentation.

This is a day workshop at House of Goblin taught by ceramicist, Phil Root. In this workshop we will be glazing pre-bisque fired pots with wood and plant ash--unleashing the alchemical properties of natural matter!

Artists Angela Findlay and Nick Grellier 'in conversation' between their exhibitions CONVERSATIONS ACROSS TIME at The Vaults and GRAVITY at The Chapels of Rest in Stroud Cemetery during SITE Festival. The artists will discuss their work and relationships with site, materials, the physical and metaphysical, and their methods of making.

The original tour of Stroud Cemetery by its 'only living resident'. Starting at the Lower Cemetery Lodge at 114 Bisley Road, we will explore the history of this special place with a particular focus on the largely forgotten history of the 'Paupers' who were once housed in the adjacent Workhouse and now lie buried in unmarked graves. Facts mingle with poetry, pictures and fiction to conjure up the past. 

An illustrated talk exploring the remarkable life and shocking death of Joan Margaret Legge in the Himalayas, and her great-great-niece Angela Findlay’s journey to uncover the impact this tragedy had across subsequent generations.

Get ready for an exciting in-person event at House of Goblin where you can meet Matthew Shaw & Lally MacBeth from Stone Club! It’s a chance to hear some cool stories, ask questions, and connect with fellow earth dwellers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Retreat to Rowden Wood, a space for deep listening. Once a woodland for Hockney & Furnival’s sketches, now a home for sounds by international maker, Rory.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Offbeat is a one-day, community-led celebration of creativity in Dursley town centre, bringing together artists, makers, performers and local groups for a day of shared experience. Starting at 10am with guided walks, the day opens into a curated “Show & Share” under the Market Hall, featuring creatives, talks and live moments from artists.

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.

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.