2023 Site Festival film

BITE : Featured Exhibition at SVA Gallery

BITE is an exhibition showcasing four selected artists from Bristol alongside SITE Festival. Artists include Vera Boele-Keimer, Karolina Ptaszkowska, Mahali O’Hare and Adam Hedley. Find out more.

May Darbyshire : Artist Residency

May Darbyshire’s Open Studio is with Mark Darbyshire at 26 Lansdown for Site Festival 2023 - find the PDF directory. See the residency info on the SVA website.

Mair Hughes : Summerfield Studio at SVA

Ann-Margreth Bohl : Sculpture Studio at SVA

Kelly O’Brien : Painting Studio at SVA

2022 Site Festival Film

In this film, artists from 2022 Site Festival share their thoughts, their studios and their work; from established artists such as Chris Bingle and Jo Casling, to emerging artists such as Elena Ferro Kirby.

We've loved this reflection and are grateful for all the contributors to this film, and to the festival. It really summarises why we do what we do, and inspires us to keep going!

Site Festival 2022 in June was captured by Sam Judd.

2022 Artist Films

Imogen Harvey-Lewis

Leading up to Open Studios 2022 we started a series of Artist Films exploring the practices of local creatives, and getting to know the Open Studios artists better.

We asked :

  • What is your favourite art tool?

  • If you could show your work to one person who would it be?

  • What are the rituals that you use in your art practice?

Alice Begg of Humphries and Begg

Beth Quarmby

Evie-Lola Minney

Nettle Grellier

Adam White

Melvyn Warren-Smith

Emily Joy

Aimee Lax

Malgorazato Zajac

Tamara : A Mobile Theatre-Game

South Korean arts group The Strangers presented a location based art project Tamara for Site Festival. The project showcased an exciting combination of an adventurous story, exploration of a space and interactive mobile technology.

The mobile application of Tamara guides individual audience members to walk through an open-air place where they are invited to experience audial and visual interactions of the immersive storytelling. Find out more and download the app.

2021 Films

Site Festival 2021 saw new collaborations, different ways of working, guest residencies at SVA, over 100 artists taking part in Open Studios and fantastic community work.

We feel lucky to have worked with new filmmakers and photographers who captured some of the events, and we recommend watching the films here.