Entries from December 2007

December 24, 2007

End of Station Road, Montpelier

Not sure if this little pedestrianized lane has a name, but it runs on from Station Road and onto St Andrews Road. This wall in particular used to be a prime spot for graf, but nowadays they’ve repainted the wall and planted trees in front of it. If they’re demonstrating that they really don’t want [...]

December 23, 2007

Bonhams contemporary art auction Feb ‘08 - the Banksy lots

Probably the last thing on most of our minds right now, what else to spend a large amount of money on, but for a certain group of folks, February will see some major spending on yet more contemporary art.
There are loads of Banksys in this one, and you can check out the full catalogue here, [...]

December 23, 2007

Station Road, Montpelier

This is an odd little road, running up to Montpelier Station. Used to have lots of interesting graf on it (and an awesome chinese cash and carry) but sadly both are now gone.
You can see from this shot just some of the work done up here to remove graf

Here’s another one of the same stencil [...]

December 23, 2007

Cheba print

I was kicking myself for not getting this Cheba canvas at the Guerrilla Galleries show, and am now kicking myself more, as it’s been turned into a top notch print.
Get to Guerrilla Galleries to get yourself one!

December 23, 2007

Those Stokes Croft buildings

Man, are these places the home of some graf over the years. Got photos of that to share at some point, but was told about the existence of this video a while ago, and have just found it on youtube.
Rowdy/sweet toof/cyclops doing their thang super size on the famous buildings, in pieces that still dominate [...]

December 22, 2007

An old skool Banksy

So, i guess a lot of traffic to this blog recently has been from people interested in Banksy. Now, as i said in the ‘about’ section, this blog is in part about showing people that Bristol is about more than Banksy. But have recently been sent some pics by various readers that have taken me [...]

December 22, 2007

Banksy vandalised

This story’s been around a few days now, but still amusing. As part of the Santa’s Ghetto thing in Bethlehem at the moment, Banksy put up some stencils around the streets, making, many thought, some amusing yet poignant statements about the situation in the West Bank at the moment, a donkey having its ID checked [...]

December 22, 2007

Reader interaction?

Was amused by something i saw this morning. In this previous blog i put up some photos ofclimate chage campaign style graf in chalk, and said
“Why did the artist think that choosing a building at the top of one of Bristol’s highest hills made the point about rising sea levels more plausible? Wouldn’t Thomson’s in [...]

December 21, 2007

Venue’s moving

Ended up walking past the Venue magazine building on north/overton road today, and was reminded of something covered by the Bristol blogger, Venue has left the building.
In a way, Venue is as much a part of Bristol life as mizzley rain really, covering what has been going on and what’s coming up in this fair [...]

December 21, 2007

More graffle pics

So it seems the blog was getting loads of traffic yesterday from people looking for pics of what’s available at Graffle.
As it happened, i was going back to the 12 days show tonight anyway, so took the opportunity to grab pics of what’s there at the moment.
It’s worth mentioning at the top that according to [...]