2025 Festival Programme

One Day Studio Experiment
Sunday 5th July 2025
Location : Stroud District
Art, collaborations, creative whims. Venue location released in June.

Faces, Forms & Forgeries
A group exhibition showcasing work by local artists training in the classical atelier tradition. Exhibiting: Lucinda Acton, Peta Bunbury, Kathy Cambell, Lizet Dingemans, Tania Fullerton, David Godding, Ela Koncka, Michael Sykes, Lynsey Smith, Sharon Turley.

Dance and movement collaborations at SVA
For 2025 we’re collaborating with movement artists and dancers to create new connections between them and visual artists. Visit SVA on Sunday mornings during Open Studios to see Brenda Waite and Sharon Gimpel, to see how movement artists interact in the SVA studios.

Open Studios Weekend 2
In 2025 81 artists open their studio doors in 40 locations in the Stroud Valleys :
In 2025 81 artists open their studio doors in 40 locations in the Stroud Valleys : Saturday 21st - Sunday 22nd June 11am - 5pm

World Refugee Day : evening event at Hill House, Amberley
Come and celebrate the skills and contributions of refugees at Hill House with an evening of art, music, food and conversation. Sanctuary Breaks at Hill House. Wander the gardens and enjoy freshly baked bread from our clay oven, recently built by our Resident Artist Sam Mukumba and volunteers.

Pecha Kucha
Come to the 6th Pecha Kucha Night at SVA.. 8 visual artists present their diverse practices in this brilliant format: 20 slides x 20 seconds. It's hugely engaging, an emotional ride and a rare glimpse into the minds and workings of artists. Don’t miss it!

Dance and movement collaborations at SVA
For 2025 we’re collaborating with movement artists and dancers to create new connections between them and visual artists. Visit SVA on Sunday mornings during Open Studios to see Brenda Waite and Sharon Gimpel, to see how movement artists interact in the SVA studios.

Open Studios Weekend 1
In 2025 81 artists open their studio doors in 40 locations in the Stroud Valleys :
Saturday 14th - Sunday 15th June 11am - 5pm

The Refugee Art Exhibition at Hill House
This exhibition of artworks by refugees, along with Sam Mukumba’s artwork and bread oven hand-built for SITE, celebrates the work we do and people we work with.

Fresh Work from GPC
The GPC (Gloucestershire Printmaking Cooperative) is a fantastic Stroud based printmaking facility that facilitates imagemakers in Gloucestershire.
We have planned a diverse exhibition for SITE Open Studios 2025 throughout the studios and gallery, consisting of original prints that embrace different themes and processes.

Hue and Eye - Approaches to Colour in Painting
This exhibition showcases the paintings of Vanessa Clemente Vincerò and Mick Mills. While both artists emphasise the value of abstract formal elements, such as line, tone and composition to inform their visual language, the expressive use of colour is at the core of their artistic practice.

PaintPrintClay
Three women artists: paintings, printmaking and ceramics in a historic house PLUS cream teas served in the garden (weather permitting)! What’s not to like?

Studio 3 : Open Studio
Studio 3 is a collective of artists sharing skills, teaching techniques and creating mixed media artworks. Myrn Fisher, Alice Lovegrove, Marta Mistrzyk and Hannah O’Kelly.

The Studios Collective
The Studios is home to a collective of multidisciplinary artists who work independently from their own spaces exploring a range of mediums in clay, glass, mosaic, stone and textiles. Dawn Almasi, Millie Beaumont, Johannes Steuck, Natalie Case, Anna Palmer, Marion Mitchell and Helen Rogers.

THISS 2025
Ten artists from across the south west and London respond to the theme of adaptable matter at The Hide’s outdoor sculpture exhibition, now in its fourth year.
Artist-Curator Alice Sheppard Fidler is joined by Jessica Akerman, Barbara Bayer, Flora Bradwell, Luke Chin-Joseph, Will Cruickshank, Liz Elton, Chantal Powell, Valentino Vannini and Andrea Wright.

Dance in Nature : Bodyscape Dance
Come and enjoy film, artwork and live improvised dance in nature by Jemima & Harvey Bennett and members of Bodyscape Dance. No set times.

Tapestry : Union Street
The artists of Union Street present a new show ‘Tapestry’, incorporating jewellery, textiles, ceramics, folk art sculpture, painting, illustration and animation. Artists; Heidi Hockenjos, Clemency Calkin, Lorraine Robbins, Tom Sears, Georgina Olley, Jim Pilston, Lucy Inder.

Coach House Collective
Three independent dance artists with differing approaches, all centred around a deep understanding of the moving body. Visitors are invited to dip into a rolling programme of film, writing and live practise and performance.

The Dreaming Ancestors
Patricia Brien & Louise van den Muyzenberg : Mixing metaphors, visitations and projections, this collaborative and independent project pursues near-ancient kin as if they existed once, or will in the coming times.

Hundred Heroines Photography Museum
The Hundred Heroines Museum is the only museum in the world dedicated to women in photography. “Poisoned Futures” is our flagship exhibition for summer 2025.

Audio postcards & Kitchen Kunst’fessionals : Meg Dunford
Playful audio work & podcasts, specially created for SITE 2025 in collaboration with artists & festival producers. The work will be presented in various locations for visitors to encounter.

Drifters (1929) Monumental silent film with live score by Jason Singh
Sound artist, nature beatboxer and composer Jason Singh performs his live soundtrack to John Grierson’s monumental silent documentary film Drifters at The Goods Shed for Site Festival.

Close to the Edge
Close to the Edge explores the limits, restrictions and value of boundaries within the landscape.

Just When You Look The Other Way
The mirror stands, whilst events unfolded, as a witness, silent, mute, emotionless. It keeps no record and makes no judgment.

Caribbean Atlantean : Risée Chaderton-Charle
Risée Chaderton-Charles, our guest artist from Barbados presents ‘Caribbean Atlantean’, a new series of digital collage pieces created by merging photography, digital illustration, text, and watercolour.

She says alot of things by Ruth Batham
She says alot of things by Ruth Batham. Paintings about people held in Rough Hands.

Congruent Sym : Marek Tobolewski
Aleph Contemporary exhibits Congruent Sym, a solo show by Marek Tobolewski. His freehand abstractions balance symmetry and space.

The Shape of Sound
The Shape of Sound : An exhibition of Abstract sculpture and painting by Alexandra Harley and Noela Bewry at Adderbank Gallery.