Green Capital / Feature
Green capital 2015: LitterARTI
What happens when you bring litter and art together?
In Bristol you get LitterARTI, an arts collective who use art, performance and make music out of reclaimed material to get people working together and thinking about how we use waste.
Supported by Bristol 2015 the group have planned a series of events throughout Bristol designed to bring together residents, businesses, students and organisations to create sculptures from reclaimed materials and draw attention to the problem of waste.
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One of the projects which the group is focusing on is reducing the amount of plastics getting into Bristol’s waterways and ultimately out into the seas. Last month LitterARTI used plastic waste to turn the stature of Neptune into a piece of art to draw attention to World Oceans Day.
LitterARTI curator, Annali Grimes, says a key part of their work is getting everyone involved “with our accessible public art and performances” which help people “think about rubbish, how it ends up in our waterway and how we can reduce its environmental impact”.
Supported by Bristol 2015 the group will be working with schools and communities across Bristol all summer creating art out of litter and, in the autumn, LitterARTI will work with community groups in Avonmouth, Shirehampton and Seamills to create benches made from waste looking out to sea. This will include litter picks – the litter gets stuffed inside plastic bottles to be used as bricks – which is covered with clay and decorated.