Spike Island open studios - the Matt Davies piece features two blank audio tapes which are played by two tape-players.  The loose tape is pulled over the dismantled piano strings creating abstract noise.  A photo's obviously never going to work for this time of piece but it was really effective in person.

Matt Davies


Solveig Settemsdal


Ian Chamberlain




Richard Woods


Seamus Staunton


Richard Broomhall


Patrick Haines


Aaron McPeake

Deams, Soker, Deams, 45RPM, Shab1 and Lokey


Andy Council


3Dom


Hemper


45RPM, Deams and Silent Hobo


Aspire


Soker


Deams

Boswell


Wasp (Boswell), Senz (Xenz), Pert (Lokey) and Feek from 1998 and Young from 2014
(Just to be clear, Young didn't go over any of the old graffiti; there have been several new pieces on the bottom of this wall over the years)


Bill Posters/Brandalism


Misfit, 45RPM and Richt and Paul Insect/Brandalism


Jaho and Pony


3AA

'Exploration' group show at Antlers Gallery featuring Jemma Appleby, Geoff Diego Litherland and Karin Krommes. 

"Exploration brings together three contemporary UK based artists that examine human technology and its encroachment on the natural world.  Using traditional notions of landscape as a departure point, the three artists bring in technological marvels; passenger-less drones, modernist architecture, the Higgs boson collider. With human advancement at the forefront of this exhibition each artist challenges notions of discovery, pursuit and exploration."

Karin Krommes


Jemma Appleby and Geoff Diego Litherland


Jemma Appleby (left) and Karin Krommes (right)


Karin Krommes


Jemma Appleby

I've got the price list, so I'll message you a copy.

Stanley Donwood


SPZero76


Cheba and Lokey


Rowdy


Limbo, Kace, Banksy (you have to look very closely) and Midas


3Dom, Sepr, and Dead (gave up trying to get a photo without cars in front)

BV Art Studios open day - By far my favourite work was Kathy Hinde's 'Piano Migrations' piece which can't really be captured with photographs, so here's a video of the installation piece which gives a vague idea of what it was about.  It was absolutely fantastic in person.


Simon Ledson


Ben Goodman and Sophie Woodrow


Nikki Allford


Amanda Chambers

Conifer looks good!.

Dan Kitchener


Dale Grimshaw


Shabs1


Lady Culpa and Stewey


CKOne, Jahoer, Eddie Murphy and Angry Face


Hoax


Shaun C Badham

Dale Grimshaw


ASK, Lews and Amber Run




Soker and Cheo


Irony


Monet

Cheo and Soker


Old Master, T.Rex, Ryder and Forge


Shab1


Sepr and Kleiner Shames




Haka and Ceos

The 3Dom and one of the Deams pieces above, as well as the long wall and Khoi piece below, are all tributes to Matt 'Mibsy' Hibbert who sadly passed away last week.  Mibsy used to run King of Paint and, amongst other things, put on shows by Stik and David Walker. Rest in peace.

Ryder, T.Rex, Deams, Epok, Sepr and Smak


Rago and Mos, Serif and Khoi


AcerOne


DANK


Stenz


45RPM and Richt

Sickboy


Ded Posh


Rashe and Atak


Deams and Epok




Meows, Limbo, Rukus, S&S, Sok and Ryder

(It's nice to see Banksy's images appropriated for something with the same message and ethos as the original work for a change)

A year or two ago I uploaded photos of how all the Banksy's around Bristol are doing and I thought I'd repeat the exercise (with a bonus from Cheddar Gorge) for anyone who's interested.  Unfortunately, there's been a spate of them disappearing lately; Modern Lovers has come and gone since I did this last, Grim Reaper was recently cut off the side of the Thekla, the sunset collaboration with Inkie died a natural death and Quak Attack has very recently been largely painted over.  Here's how they looked shortly before they disappeared:


It's a real shame to see the Quak Attack piece go after all these years.  It was 17 years old and, apart from being the last Bad Applz piece left remaining, I think it was also the oldest piece by Banksy, Tes, Kato or Lokey (EDIT: Now I think about it, this piece was probably the oldest in Bristol).  In all fairness to Elms, some kid had already painted over the left half of the piece but apart from some light dogging it looks like Zynk's dub was the first thing over Tes's letters and half of Banksy's characters.


The cafe which is in the old Rollermania shop keeps the shutters up these days and the photo below is from a little while ago now but the piece is still there. The Planning Permission piece will be behind Portacabins while the basement of the library is converted into a school but, again, it's still there and Designed Picnic Area has faded some more.  But here they all are:








And here's how some of the pieces which aren't by Banksy, but which regularly get mistaken for Banksys, are looking .  SPQR from 2008, Dotcom and Slim from 2004ish, Jefrow from 2005ish (one of my all time favourite pieces) and Inkwel from 2012: