Awarded Saltire Society 90th Anniversary Commission | To See Oursels
I’m delighted to have been selected for the 2026 Saltire Society’s To See Oursels commission, one of eight contemporary artistic commissions. I’ll be developing a new site-responsive work, Confluence; Memory…
Shortlisted | Inches Carr Craft Development Award 2025
After a whirlwind few days with this amazing group of talented makers sharing huge congratulations to @erin.mcquarrie and @scottsmith.design as winners of the 2025 #inchescarr award – it has been a delight to meet and…
Awarded the SoB Maureen Duke Education Award 2025
Delighted to announce I have recently been awarded by the Society of Bookbinders this years Maureen Duke Education Award 2025. This is a wonderful opportunity to take 4 days of…
‘Holding Conversations’ Exhibition | presented by VAS in partnership with Tea Green Events at V&A Dundee
‘Holding Conversations’ a handling exhibition, making the space for an audience to hold works on display, to interact and and enjoy the sensory experience of the work and for the…
Making History Exhibition
Roots + Crowns | Radicalis et Corona, vital for life The Signal Tower Museum, Arbroath 9th August – 3rd November 2025 I was delighted to be awarded a Making History…
Making History | Home Start Angus Workshops
Home-Start Angus Workshops | A Diary of Making and Memories I developed a series of workshops for the Home-Start Angus Monday Group, to make ‘Roots and Crowns’ books with the…
Making History Residency Diary | Arbroath Abbey & Hospitalfield, June 2024
Making History Residency Diary | Arbroath Abbey & Hospitalfield, June 2024 In early 2024 I was delighted to be awarded a Historic Environment Scotland and Craft Scotland funded Making History…
ADJUST / ADAPT showcase!
I am very pleased to be showcasing my work as part of Adjust / Adapt, a new digital exhibition created by Scottish Furniture Makers Association (@scottishfurnituremakers) in partnership with Visual…
OPEN ONE | Process Gallery
Selected from an Open Call | OPEN ONE Process Gallery Opening November 8th 2019 I am delighted to have been selected from an Open Call to show in the inaugural…
Tools for Survival Exhibition | Hawick Museum
Date & time: Sunday 20 October 2019, 2 – 4pm Venue: Hawick Museum, Scott Gallery, Wilton Lodge Park, Hawick TD9 7JL You and your guest are invited to the opening…
Unconformities | Developing at Batch : 2 in August 2019
Throughout the month of August this year as part BATCH:2; a series of contemporary dance and movement experiments curated by choreographer Claire Pencak, I was invited to develop an installation at…
Tools for Survival Exhibition | The Briggait, Glasgow
‘Tools For Survival‘ an exhibition by Jenny Pope, Liz Douglas and Felicity Bristow Exhibition Preview: Thursday 8th August, 6-8pm Exhibition continues: 9th – 30th August For this exhibition the artists…
‘Up on the Mountain & Down by the River’ | Felicity Bristow & Susie Leiper
30 June 2018 – 20 July 2018 Upright Gallery, Edinburgh ‘Susie loves being up on the mountain. Felicity enjoys walking down by the river. Both artists share a fascination with…
Artist Book Exhibition | bound : unbound | 20 January – 28 February 2018
20 January – 28 February 2018 &Gallery, Edinburgh Please view online catalogue. ‘The members of bound : unbound come from a variety of disciplines: Felicity Bristow and Lynda Wilson share…
Mapping the Borders | ‘Being Human Festival’, Jedburgh – 19th November 2017
Venue The Bakery Studio, Rear of 11A Exchange Street, Jedburgh Date Sunday November 19th Time Sunrise (7.53am) – Sunset (15.57pm) Note: The artists will work from 7.00am…
‘Beyond the Page’ Exhibition | Craigard Gallery, Wigtown
Delighted to be contributing with the artists in the Bound : Unbound collective to the exhibition ‘Beyond the Page’ curated by Sarah Stewart of Craigard Gallery, based in Scotland’s National…
Art Walk Porty ‘edgelands’ commission | Bristow + Wilson
This weekend and next! Join Bristow + Wilson | Venue 51 | at this years Art Walk Porty – we are really looking forward to it, the nature reserve is…
ECA Masters Degree Show 2016
From the series of works ‘The Banks of a River’ Copyright © Felicity Bristow 2016 This year as part of my MA in Contemporary Art Practice at ECA I have focused…
How do Contemporary Artists using the book as a multi-media cultural form address current ‘time-space compression’ (D.Harvey)?
In this critical essay I will reflect on the theme of ‘What is Contemporary Art?’ covered in the Methods Seminar series (Semester 1, 2015/16), then focussing on the analysis of…
Why ‘Book’ now?
Over the Summer I had to make a decision on what I would do next as I had essentially run out of time on my Part-time Degree course (if only…
End of a Festival, a rainbow of emotions…
#HiddenDoor this year was amazing – clearing out the #Lockerroom today gave me some time to reflect on what a huge success the whole event has been. While feeling a…
Learning Curves & Salty Coffee
What was anticipated and what actually happens with art work which invites participation from an unknown audience can be very different things. This should have been obvious to me, and…
#HiddenDoor2015 Opens – Phew!
#HiddenDoor opens today, Friday 22nd May, with ‘…a unique mix of visual art, music, theatre, dance and cinema.’ What is Hidden Door? Hidden Door is a not for profit arts…
My Grey Spell – continuing the set up for #HD2015
I have a sore back today, grey speckled face and wrists and a niggling worry about hanging my work in the #lockerroom off the #blue corridor in the #secretcourtyard –…
#HD2015 in the deep end of process
As the set up days for #HiddenDoor Festival 2105 rapidly approach I am physically involved in dunking, dropping, mixing and ‘draw-ing’ tests to see what works as I scale up…
#HD2015 – ‘Draw’-ing(s) in fluid progress
‘Draw’-ing(s) from the secondary meaning of the word Draw: 2. To bring, take, or pull out, as from a receptacle or source: to draw water from a well. Following the site specific work…
#TYA a dedicated artist book
I was so excited to receive my image book from PhotoBox, although too late to submit for college I now have a visual record of the process I went through during…
‘…getting involved becomes involving.’
My Working Perspectives Residency with #TYA: ‘From the very first visit time I met the very enthusiastic Dave Hodson, Manager, from Tweeddale Youth Action I quickly learnt that #TYA was…