Green Capital 2015: Art winners announced

Eight new neighbourhood arts projects have been commissioned by Bristol 2015.

Among the winning projects are bins that reward young people with music when they add litter, large recycled puppets that stem from local folklore and a beautifully designed map that will encourage residents to discover green spaces.

The programme is a year-long series of arts engagement projects which has worked across Bristol’s fourteen neighbourhood partnership areas.

Each commission is for £10,000 in total which includes fees, materials and expenses.

Neighbourhood Arts Programme Manager Emma Williams said she was “thrilled” that all 14 artists have now been selected and “they can start working in their respective neighbourhoods, engaging residents on identified issues”.

“Some of the projects will leave a lasting physical legacy but others may be more about driving behaviour change or bringing communities together,” she added.

Henbury, Brentry & Southmead
Make Some Noise About Litter by PAPER Arts will see local children take part in music workshops using litter as their instruments. The team will then attach sensors and small solar powered speakers to the inside of surrounding bins, rewarding those who use the bins with the recorded sounds made through the workshops! The project will also look at litter behaviour change at The Ranch in Southmead.

Filwood, Knowle & Windmill Hill
The Lost Toy Compendium by Knowle West Media Centre invites people on a journey of social archaeology to rediscover and repurpose the playable gems hidden among the dusty piles of forgotten ‘junk’ lurking in attics, garages and sheds. Using play, story-telling and art, these re-discovered artefacts (from rusty bike wheels and old sledges to dusty console controllers and forgotten Furbies) will be remixed and reborn as new participative games that bring everyday streets alive and build connections between people. 

St George
Discover St George by a project team comprising illustrators Dave Bain, Hannah Bailey, Dawn Cooper, Lucy Davey and Zoe Power, designer Chris Woodward and digital designers Dan Hayman and Peter Horsham will result in an accessible, beautiful and informative map that will encourage a broad spectrum of residents from the St George area to enjoy and take pride in their local green spaces for many years to come.

Horfield & Lockleaze
Flagged Up by Deborah Weinreb (+D) will bring an exciting array of creative workshops to Horfield and Lockleaze resulting in a colourful visual trail designed to motivate people to get out, walk, explore and discover.

Avonmouth & Kingsweston
The Real Goram Giant? by artists Alan May, Dee Moxon and Ruth Ramsay will see a Goram Giant being created from natural and recycled materials in each of the villages of Avonmouth, Lawrence Weston, Sea Mills and Shirehampton and then paraded at the Goram Fair in Avonmouth in September.

Henleaze, Stoke Bishop & Westbury-on-Trym
Murmuration by Zoë Cameron will invite residents of Henleaze, Stoke Bishop and Westbury-on-Trym to participate in public workshops where they can sculpt their own birds, culminating in a celebratory procession and mass installation of 1,000 ceramic starlings to highlight the recent decline in the population of this previously common garden bird.

Greater Brislington
Sailors Walk by APE Project will engage the residents of St. Anne’s Woods in a series of arts and play workshops, culminating in a grand finale in the form of an arts and play trail in November for the whole community to come together and enjoy.
 
Stockwood, Hengrove & Whitchurch
The Ivor Project by Once Arts and Ceremonies will see Ivor the puppet getting to know Stockwood over the next few months and hosting events such as picnics and bus tours where people from different generations and sections of the community can get to know each other. Through these conversations, Ivor will uncover and connect some of the Green Capital themes at the heart of this community.

More information about the projects can be found on the area’s webpages or on the Bristol Green Capital Facebook page.