for happier, healthier cities
By Rowan Hanson-Iles If you live anywhere remotely urban, you will have seen the explosion in popularity of murals and street art. Large mural commissions are now commonplace on our streets and artists compete for placements at dedicated street art festivals. A sudden spawning of murals on building hoardings can even be a precursor to…Continue reading Public space is for play. Cars and ads can go away
📍Mina Road roundabout, St Werburgh’s, next to Chaya Veggies (maps)🗓️ Saturday 18th April, 1pm-4pm. Join Adblock Bristol at our community arts billboard on Saturday 18th April, 1-4pm, to paint the colours onto a beautiful new artwork by Bristol artist Matilda Smith. Featuring snails, woodlice, flowers, which we’ll fill in with bright colours, the piece is…Continue reading Family paint-a-billboard day in Bristol
Bristol’s Burg Arts board – a former billboard now used to showcase community art – has hosted a lot of artworks over the years, but usually they come one after the next. …Continue reading Community collage for Bristol arts board
A photograph of six Bristol Waste workers has been installed on the Burg Arts community billboard this month, as a way of saying thanks to the people who keep our streets clean and tidy. Colin Moody submitted the photograph to Adblock Bristol as part of the ongoing Burg Arts project on the disused billboard in…Continue reading Celebrating the people who make our neighbourhoods better
Lauren is a Bristol based artist and printmaker whose creation “Story” has been installed on the Burg Arts community billboard in June and July. Here she explains the background to her creation, the techniques that provide opportunity to reinvent advertising space, and the ideas she hopes to inspire… “For the last few years I have…Continue reading Burg Arts Featurette by Lauren Curl