Located in a red and white striped building on the first floor of East Quay, Studio 10 functions as a multi-use project space that hosts responsive, more immediate projects alongside our wider exhibition programme at East Quay.

The space gives us the opportunity to introduce our audiences to new mediums and contemporary practices, while platforming emerging and underrepresented artists and developing connections within the local community.

Please contact Millie Laing-Tate at millie@containsart.co.uk for more information.

Click on the links below to find out more about the exhibitions and projects:

- 2025:
HELD IN THE GRAIN; Craft As A Way To Preserve Nature's Story
‍Jeffrey Hart, Craftsman in Residence

Coating
‍A solo show by Anna Chrystal Stephens

Exmoor Farms: A Year on the Moor
‍A collaborative project between the Exmoor Society, the Exmoor Hill Farming Network, and local GCSE students

‍- 2024:
In Search of Lost Time
‍A trio show by Mike Bradshaw, Vanessa Clegg and Andrew Davey

‍Closing the Loop
‍A solo show by Joe Preston

‍UNWRAPPED: Fast Fashion
‍A group show by Sixth Form Students from West Somerset College
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Danesfield End of Year Art Show
‍A group show by Years 5, 6 7 & 8 from Danesfield C of E School
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Artwork from the Multiverse
‍An NFT Project by Danesefield D of E pupils‍

Beside the Lake, Beneath the Trees
‍A solo show by Arushee Suri‍

‍Mind of Wonk
‍A community project led by Lottie McCarthy, with Bridgwater Art Group‍

‍DIAGENESIS
A solo show by Elizabeth Woodger‍

- 2023:
‍Together Apart
‍A collaborative project by the West Somerset Welcome Hub, with Georgina Towler and Melanie Deegan

‍The Woods Echo Out To UsA duo show by Elaoise Benson and Annie Watkins

‍Studio 10 Artist Residency
Somerset-based artist Jenni Dutton takes over Studio 10

‍Souvenir
A solo show by Beth Fox

Out of the Box
A group show celebrating 10 years of Contains Art‍

Slow Time
A group show by the Somerset Solargraphic Society, led by Janette Kerr in collaboration with John Gammans

- 2022:
Watchet Sur La Mer featured the work of six architecture students from the Masters of Architecture (RIBA Part II) course at Oxford Brookes University, each project inspired by Watchet.

Jenni Dutton occupied Studio 10 as an artist in residence throughout August 2022, working on her climate activism, particularly focusing on the current dire state of the oceans. ‍

Somerset Art Weeks festival 2022. Studio 10 showed the work of six invited artists: Sarah Easter Collins, Sarah Fox, Helen Jones, Georgina King, Dot Kuzniar and Veronica Wilbourn, as part of Somerset Art Weeks festival 2022.

The space has also previously been transformed into a sanctuary for artists Joanna Briar and Jill Davies. Commissioned by Somerset Art Works, their project featured over 400 postcards made by participants from Somerset and beyond. You can find out more about it here.