Art and the Public Realm Bristol

Sarah Staton artist talk

Sarah Staton creates spaces and objects that seek to enable revelry and reverie. Her work combines a sculptor’s sensibility with design, landscape and architecture. Staton’s practice draws inspiration from graphic and furniture designers, architects and cultural critics with whom she collaborates. Staton’s recent work has explored interaction between audience and environment where her artworks have become habitable or capable of supporting life. Staton is interested in the tactile qualities of our built environment, an idea she returns to repeatedly in her work.

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Marvin Gaye Chetwynd talk, Bristol: 19th October

Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (b. 1973, London, UK) studied anthropology at UCL before studying Fine Art at the Slade School of Art and Royal College of Art in London. Chetwynd’s work spans performance, sculpture, painting, installation and video each of which the artist infuses with elements of folk plays, street spectacles, popular culture and Surrealist cinema.

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Dream it, Build it project launch 24th September: 1.00 - 4.00pm

muf architecture / art and Studio 7 present 'Dream it, Build it': An afternoon of music, food & den building to celebrate the completion of the Gainsborough Square Pavilion on Saturday 24th September 2016.

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Bristol Arena Public Art Programme

The Bristol Arena will be a new world-class 12,000 capacity entertainment venue for Bristol. Located on the former diesel depot site adjacent to Bristol Temple Meads station and within the Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone, this £91M venue will host over 100 music, sport, exhibitions and events a year. As part of the development, and in keeping with the Council’s public art policy, a budget for the development of a public art strategy and commissions programme has been agreed by Bristol City Council.

31.12.2018

A Thousand Seasons Past: Rehearsal (Act 1)

Rehearsal (Act 1) was an interactive rehearsal to create a unique playlet. The event invited the audience onto the stage to rehearse, direct and participate in a unique experiment to consider the possibilities for public rehearsal and audience participation. This work was a rehearsal for a rehearsal; an experiment into the possibility of rehearsal as a space of agency in which questions, histories, and behaviours can be addressed, posed and unfolded.

01.06.2015

The PCP art programme for Bristol Primary Schools

Bristol City Council’s Primary Capital Programme (PCP) is designed to include artists in the development of primary schools in the city with artists both involved in the design of these important educational spaces and contributing works specially made for their communities. Framed within the parameters of Bristol City Council’s innovative public art strategy, The Primary Capital Programme is the most extensive programme of commissioning contemporary art for school environments in the UK.

12.12.2012