KIT FORM

We have some last minute availability for exhibitions: ✨ 6 - 12th July and ✨21st July - 2nd August If you'd like to put on an exhibition (group or solo) with us then get in touch with Rosie on [email protected] Please share with anyone you think may be interested. We look forward to hearing from you! ~~~ Photo credit @rubyturner.photography ~~~ #ExhibitWithUs

VOLUNTEER WITH US ✨ Link in bio ☝️ #kitform #jamaicastreet #stokescroft #jamaicastreetstudios #volunteering #volunteeropportunities #bristolart #artbristol #artistled

Do you have a book club, class, event, fundraiser, workshop or group that needs an affordable space to meet? Get in touch! We welcome one-off & repeat bookings. Email: [email protected] for more details. We currently regularly host the brilliant @unitedmodels_lifedrawing , @perpetually.stew , @doglifedrawing , @kit.form.studio & @girlscameraclubbristol as well as many wonderful one-off & returning bookings :) ~~~ #hire #EveningHire #space #CommunityGroup #workshop

JSS is pleased to be hosting curator Hettie Judah for 'How to Enter the Art World After...' Sat 23 May, from 5pm KIT FORM Hettie will be joined by three of our very own studio holders Dorcas Casey, Louisa Fairclough and Jessa Fairbrother, alongside Ellie Kerr-Smiley whose work will be showing in KIT FORM TICKETS VIA HEADFIRST hdfst.uk/e153282 --- DORCAS CASEY Dorcas Casey is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Bristol. She is interested in dreams, intuition, folk rituals, memory and stories. She works with many different materials including fabric, plaster, bronze, and ceramics. Dorcas studied Sculpture and Multi-disciplinary printmaking. She is an Academician at the RWA and has a studio at Jamaica Street Studios in Stokes Croft. LOUISA FAIRCLOUGH Returned from a lengthy period of mental illness, sound is at the core of Louisa Fairclough's practice, both analogue (16mm film/ tape loops) and digital. Louisa is currently making sound/live work rooted in her lived experience of psychosis, a project funded by ACE. Louisa is a co-founder of BEEF, a film and sound collective based at Jamaica Street Studios. JESSA FAIRBROTHER Fairbrother uses stories of her maternal line, historical archives and the porous body with photography, performance, embroidery and writing. She completed an MA at the University of Westminster and is currently undertaking a practice-led PhD through Kingston University / Wellcome Collection, funded by Techne, which looks at miscarriage in relation to astrological methods of thinking. Her work appeared in Hayward Touring’s Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood and is held in several national collections in the UK ELLIE KERR-SMILEY Ellie Kerr-Smiley is a self-taught contemporary figurative artist, whose work looks to marry together the real and the imagined. With a strong link to storytelling, Ellie’s work explores the interiority of her sitters by combining traditional portraiture methods with illustrative representations of the internal self. --- Photo 3 credit: Trish Morissey

Pull Back The Curtain! 30th April 2026 @kit.form A big thank you to all who participated in this experiment! We advertised a private view for an exhibition about process and unseen, and people turned up to nothing on our walls. We installed the show based on the collaboration, input and ideas by our amazing visitors and I left so inspired by all the conversations that fluttered around the room. What fun! @georgesprojectlog @tomhodgkinson2 @mackshahini @jazz_potter09 @katesmithcap @lazulimoooon.art @_s.a.harper_ The amazing artists who made the space alive - you are all more brillant than you know. @msglumcakes @dointhangs @eviegbanks Thank you for all your curatorial support and openness - we couldn’t have done it without you! @danihawkes.art I am so lucky to continually work with you. Thank you for all your amazing knowledge and ideas. Much more to come from us I’m sure! 📸35mm by @danihawkes.art

Where else would you get to hang out with Gus the great dane, Gryff the corgi, and Luna the spaniel but a @doglifedrawing class?! Our adorable four-legged models are always the stars of the show – but they also help us to practice different techniques ✍️ Long dogs, tiny dogs, floofy dogs: we always do our best to bring a mix of doggos to each class. In the line-up for our next @kit.form class are a beagle and a griffon 🥹 See you there?

IM THROWING MY FIRST EVENT After 10 beautiful years in Bristol, it’s time to go back home... But of course I couldn’t leave without throwing a massive party!!!! So here you go, you’re invited to my first (and final) event ever!!!!! 5-MIDNIGHT AT @kit.form IN STOKES CROFT There will be work exhibited by yours truly, as well as the incredible stunning talented and gorgeous Stephanie Kelly and Molly Casares. Our ears will be graced by some live music courtesy of the amazing Ziggy 2000 and Anna Colette. Our eyes and senses will be tantalised by some live drag and burlesque performances from Nikkie Stones and Miss Emilienne. And finally we have a gaggle of incredible DJ’s to take us into the night! Johnny Sandwich will be doing a rare DJ set to welcome you into the event. DJ Nigel Grace will have you dancing to the best city pop and euphoric queer anthems you’ve craved all winter. And finally, our headline, Luna Tunes will be giving us everything gay, trance and hardcore that we could ever wish for. This will be a night to celebrate me, art, music,queerness and to start the summer right!!!!!!! 120 Tickets available, all profit will be used to pay artists expenses and venue costs. No one turned away for lack of funds, a small selection of tickets has been reserved for people who would like to attend but cannot afford the ticket price. I can’t wait to see you there :)) Poster by @remymelee

// The Enchanted Surgery X Mondo Assurdo // Wednesday 10th June // 20:00 - 22:30 ✷Bristol Experimental Puppetry Festival✷ brings you a very special and enchanting evening of ritualistic puppetry, worship of creation and imagination, sounds and shadows, cardbaord and foam, featuring puppet gore and puppet surgery. With presentations from The Enchanted Surgery from London, and Mondo Assurdo from Italy, with an interval in between more on their performances below. ✷The Enchanted Surgery✷ is a continuously evolving, immersive, interactive and ritualistic performance, featuring colourful characters, songs, masks and puppets. ✷MONDO ASSURDO✷ acts as an explorative collective moving by all means of creation and imagination. A showcase of imaginative forces through sounds, images, shapes, dance, puppets, shadows & lights of reality. Entry requirements: 18+ More info & tickets through link in bio. #puppetry #performance

Disruptive Verse // Sunday 24th May // 19:00 - 21:00 Disruptive Verse is a night of poetry that seeks to tackle and make sense of the times we live in. Come and listen to poets new and established, from Bristol and further afield, as they use poetry to explore the issues of today. Everybody is welcome to come and listen, regardless of whether they are fans of poetry or not - the aim of the evening is to provide an emotional outlet and a sense of communality. Join us at KIT FORM on Sunday 24th May and secure your space by booking a pay as you feel ticket. All proceeds help us cover venue costs. Ticket link in bio.

How to Enter the Art World after a late start, a first career, illness, raising children, a crisis of confidence, leaving it in disgust... With Hettie Judah Saturday 23rd May Doors: 17:00 Start: 18:00 Join us in KIT FORM to hear from Bristol-based artists (TBA) about their practices, and from renowned critic and curator Hettie Judah The presentations will be followed by a relaxed hour-long Q&A with Hettie. We will be seated in a circle, and everyone is invited to participate and ask Hettie their questions. The end of the session will be an opportunity for conversation between participants, and a book signing. ---- You will also be able to view the current KIT FORM exhibition; LIKE. Featuring work by Ellie Kerr-Smiley, Ellis King, Flo Lee, Heidi Clawson, Jasmine Rosten-Edwards, Katie Jones, Lucy Pass and Michelle Heron, the exhibition brings together distinct practices spanning painting and mixed media. ---- If cost is a barrier to attending, please get in touch with [email protected] as we have a small number of tickets available to those who would not otherwise be able to attend. ---- Hettie Judah is a writer and curator. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Frieze and The Times Literary Supplement, and writes a monthly column for Apollo magazine. Her writing on art can also be found in Art Quarterly, Art Monthly, ArtReview and other publications with 'art' in the title. Between 2016 and 2024 she was the chief art critic for the British daily newspaper The i.

WE’RE OPENING UP THE VAULTS! 🤩🪐🔭🌙🚀💫 FLATWORLD AND FRIENDS ALL-STARS TAKES FAN FAVOURITES FROM THREE YEARS OF OUR INDIE ANIMATION NIGHTS AND PACKAGES THEM INTO A 1.5HR MEGAMIX 🎞️ MAIN SCREENING + ART STALLS + LIVE MUSIC + DJS FOLKESTONE @dockerbrewery - MAY 23rd 🌊 BRISTOL @kit.form - JUNE 6th 🌃 Each showcase also includes shorts unique to their area, highlighting local animators and artists ✍️ Pre-sale discounted tickets available now! More details rolling out soon ⭐️

Join us for an induction session & become a member of KIT FORM DARKROOM. Once you're a member you can hire an enlarger & use the DARKROOM! The DARKROOM is open Monday, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. DARKROOM induction sessions are £5 and run from 18.30 - 20.30 on the following dates: ✨ Monday 11th May ✨ Monday 18th May ✨ Monday 25th May ✨ Monday 8th June Limited spaces! Please email [email protected] to book your place. KIT FORM DARKROOM is your space to print, experiment, and develop. ~~~ Photo credit: Ruby Turner @rubyturner.photography #DARKROOM #enlarger #KITFORMDARKROOM #Induction #analogue