The massage parlour was written upon last week… Fair enough… However, it had to go, so we tidied it up… Would it not be better if the community received the money that the Council pays the Anti- Graffiti team, and allows us to look after ourselves?
How times change… Stokes Croft can’t seem to keep itself out of the media these days… Last week, the Casualty TV crew filmed around Stokes Croft, and drama ensue on Stokes Croft… Hardly anybody noticed, because these kinds of scenes have been fairly normal over the past years…
For those interested, the show will screen at Halloween, and some exclusive footage will be just on the web…
Something amazing is happening in Bristol. The people are voting with their feet, making the City Museum Banksy show the hottest show in the Country.
The Selling Gallery will open its doors on Friday 24th July at PRSC HQ.
This will be a rolling exhibition that will run all summer, showcasing and selling the work of local artists, thus generating income for local artists, and for PRSC to continue its work.
On Thursday afternoon Roy, who is caretaker of Elim’s sheltered housing on the corner of Hillgrove and Jamaica Street, alerted me to the fact that yet another fine specimen had been laid at his doorstep… A regular occurence.
For an area full of pubs, clubs and street drinkers, the lack of nearby Public Toilets has meant that Turbo Island’s sub-station has been an open latrine for many years.
Whilst he was up a ladder cleaning off the damaged Banksy Mild Mild West, Chris Chalkley of PRSC was handed this letter from Denise James, Project Officer for Bristol Clean and Green.
Banksy’s Mild Mild West was got at again last night 23rd June… Looks like it was the same person(s) who did the piece down at College Green.From the look of it, it was done with paintbombs or from a paintball gun… It was easier to tidy up than the last attack, mainly because there was much less of it.The piece still looks OK from a distance, but is beginning to show the strain of repeated attacks, on closer inspection.
PRSC will open their workshop doors for the Jamaica Street Open Studio Weekend. We will be lithographing China mugs. You will have the opportunity to decorate your own mug which we will fire for you… The cost will be £10.
Last day… The remaining paintings will be almost free… A few beers and they will seem like a sound investment… See you Thursday.