Aspirations for 2014
Happy New Year from Hotwells Arts, and here’s what we’re thinking about for 2014!
Cumberland Piazza is finally getting it’s trees this year, eight Acer Rubrum Armstrong, to be planted in a group – a variety of red maple that has an upright columnar form- and we’ll celebrate by renewing the tired old planter bags with something made to last.
We’re engaging young people in the space through a summer festival exploring how a wheels space could work on site and link with another site near the Festival Way Path by Ashton Meadows. We’re talking to yr 6, 7 and 8 kids at the moment, and producing a short film telling their stories. Helping us are a few grown-up skaters, a designer, some artists and musicians, but we’re on the look out for any adults and kids who want to work together on this!
We’re also keen to get some signage and interpretation in to the space to profile all the amazing local heritage. If you’ve seen any great examples in other places, send them in or let us know and also send us your ideas.
The painting that we did last year is amazingly still in tact and no graffiti has been added to the space since, so we feel it’s time to paint those pillars properly and while we’re there, wouldn’t it be lovely to do something on some of the flat surfaces? For the future, we have a wish list of artists and projects whose work we’d like to see influence the space and we’d love to have your suggestions and ideas as well. Here’s some examples that are inspiring us:
- The High Line utilises an old high railway in New York and is a fantastic example of a community led regeneration scheme which incorporates art amongst other things.
- Jaime Gili‘s project worked on a 1961 landscape park. he has a particular interest in concrete architecture of the 60s – there was a lot of it in Caracas where he grew up. More of his work can be viewed at Saatchi and here.
- Lothar Goetz
- Gordon Young has done some interesting urban landscape projects – including an iconic gateway for Blackpool which also functions as a climbing wall
- Exyzt
- Dave Bain is a Bristol based artist and illustrator
- Oli Timmins is a Hotwells based artist and graphic designer
- Situations have links to many public art projects- check out their fantastic ‘The New Rules of Public Art’
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Come to our public meeting 19th Feb at Young Bristol 7.30pm (dockside opposite Mardyke Arms, Hotwells) and discuss options for the Piazza.
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