• People dancing and socializing in a dark nightclub with colorful purple and blue stage lights.
  • Crowd gathered outside a historic building with ornate architectural details, colorful banners, and decorative umbrellas in a public event with yellow and orange sticks in the foreground.
  • An indoor art installation features a colorful fabric sculpture resembling a cone or sail, decorated with various printed images and patterns, supported by a wooden pole, within a modern building with large windows and high ceilings.
  • A live music performance with three musicians on stage under colorful lights, including a young man playing trumpet, a person with headphones operating electronic equipment, and another person focused on a laptop.
  • People playing an outdoor musical instrument installation made of yellow pipes in a city square, with historic buildings and a crowd of onlookers, and British flags in the background.
  • A group of people wearing headphones and jackets, sitting outdoors on a sunny day with trees, grass, and a river in the background.

2025 FESTIVAL

LEVIATHAN

Mark Pozlep

SPILL’s flagship international commission presented an imagined dialogue between Suffolk’s fishermen and the colossal Leviathan, a mythological sea creature and witness to ecological collapse.

Conceived and developed during a 100-kilometre walk along the Suffolk coastline, acclaimed Slovenian artist Mark Pozlep created Leviathan with the participation of the North Sea fishermen who operated out of our county’s ports and fishing villages.

The story of fishing in Suffolk has been shaped by technological change, geopolitical forces and the shifting relationship between humans and the sea. This reflective audio-visual installation invited us to consider what remains when the sea no longer gives back.

Supported by Suffolk County Council, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovenia.

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Our large outdoor work for SPILL Festival 2025 was Steli, by Italian company Stalker Teatro. Friends and families gathered on Ipswich Cornhill to play their part building a huge wooden structure out of brightly coloured sticks.

A bridge between contemporary art and performance, Steli was a fun, interactive and colourful event for everyone.

Supported by Suffolk County Council and Ipswich Central.

STELI

Stalker Teatro

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A film crew recording a scene inside a rustic, stone-walled building with three children in costume watching. One person is holding a boom microphone, and there are tires and blankets on the ground.


MONSTERS

MONSTERS is a film project made in collaboration with school children from across East Anglia, creating a fictional documentary that will use the familiar tropes of Hollywood monster movies as a way for young people to reckon with ecological change.

Image credit: Pine Agency

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Black and white photo of elderly man and woman smiling and laughing together, holding hands against a plain white background.

Image credit: John Ferguson (2024), commissioned by SPILL as part of THE ICA PROJECT


The ICA Project

The ICA Project revisited the former Ipswich Caribbean Association building on Woodbridge Road through specially commissioned photography, newly collected oral histories, and archival materials made public for the first time.

Take a look at the ICA Memories website to view the exhibition materials, and submit your own.

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