Bristol arts centre Spike Island has relaunched its creative co-working space following a refurbishment.
While the centre's public gallery spaces were forced to close for the majority of the last year, the organisation has been redesigning its working space for creative businesses.
The space has also been rebranded from Spike Design to Spike Island Workspace.
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According to director Robert Leckie, the change of name coincides with a wider project aiming to bring "clarity" to the many different aspects of Spike Island’s offer to the creative sector.
He said: “Although Spike Island is best known for its galleries and artists’ studios, the building has also been providing affordable workspace for small creative businesses since 2007 in our co-working space.
"We have a long history and experience of supporting Bristol’s cultural and creative industries. As we navigate out of the pandemic, we recognise that people may feel differently about how they want to run their business."
Mr Leckie said Spike Island chose to relaunch its workspace with a new name to reflect the fact it's not just for designers.
"We get a broad range of creative industry businesses in here," he explained.
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“We believe that we offer the most flexible and affordable creative workspace in Bristol, and we look forward to seeing familiar faces and new ones joining us to grow their business and be part of our dynamic community.
"We’re excited to support Bristol’s creative businesses and play an important role in the recovery of the city’s vibrant arts and creative sector.”
Spike Island - formerly known as Artspace Bristol - is one of Europe’s largest studio complexes and is home to more than 70 artists, over 35 creative businesses, 160 associates and hundreds of MA and BA Fine Art students of UWE Bristol.
Artspace Bristol was founded in the mid-1970s by a group of painters, sculptors and printmakers who sought out and administered affordable studio spaces for artists in the city.
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