John taking about writing a soundtrack for Xiaolu Guo's film, She, A Chinese...
It's an interesting exploration of different approaches to the subject.
watershed Q and A
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Scott's finished his mural!
Since I started to write about Scott Barden's mural in Bath Road we've seen more examples of the fiery Bristolian temperment in Stoke's Croft. The parallels between the police/hussars are, of course, compelling. A bunch of out of town uniforms bussed in for a bust up, in both cases...though the hussars were admittedly better dressed.
That sense of independence Bristol people feel, that need to assert themselves from time to time, that separation of local authority from what people are really thinking...
Go visit the finished Bristol Riots picture at Bath Road, Totterdown in Bristol or see it here!
That sense of independence Bristol people feel, that need to assert themselves from time to time, that separation of local authority from what people are really thinking...
Go visit the finished Bristol Riots picture at Bath Road, Totterdown in Bristol or see it here!
Monday, 4 April 2011
Scott Barden's Bristol Riot mural
On Saturday the kids and me went down to the Bath Road near the Thunderbolt pub and the paintworks to see Scott Barden's 1831 Bristol Riots mural. Scott Barden's mural
It's massive and I guess as well as being a mural it's graffiti since he just put on a safety helmet and started painting it. I can't see anyone objecting! There's no-one around. This area was destroyed as part Bristol City Council's misguided ring road plans of the 1970s (which were never built), a scandalous story told in Kate Pollard's book Totterdown Rising Shops and cinemas were pulled down and people moved from the Three Lamps area to places like Stockwood on the outskirts of the city. There's a strange resonance to the painting, as you look around the ravaged urban scene now and look up at the Georgian buildings in the painting burning as a result of the anger of Bristolians, protesting about their lack of representation. Thank you Scott for reminding us of our history in Bristol, the kids loved it!
It's massive and I guess as well as being a mural it's graffiti since he just put on a safety helmet and started painting it. I can't see anyone objecting! There's no-one around. This area was destroyed as part Bristol City Council's misguided ring road plans of the 1970s (which were never built), a scandalous story told in Kate Pollard's book Totterdown Rising Shops and cinemas were pulled down and people moved from the Three Lamps area to places like Stockwood on the outskirts of the city. There's a strange resonance to the painting, as you look around the ravaged urban scene now and look up at the Georgian buildings in the painting burning as a result of the anger of Bristolians, protesting about their lack of representation. Thank you Scott for reminding us of our history in Bristol, the kids loved it!
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