by PRSC | Friday, May 6, 2011 | Art
PRSC will have an Open Doors Day on Saturday 7th May, where tea, cake and the occasional biscuit will be on offer all day, free of charge, (Donations Welcome). It’s a community effort so please bring cake, biscuits and or yourselves between 9am and 9pm. In...
by PRSC | Wednesday, May 4, 2011 | Art
In a masterstroke of urban design, Bristol City Council has finally realised that what Stokes Croft, City Road and the Cheltenham Road need are more adverts. Refusing to bow to pressure from more aesthetically impoverished neighborhoods like Redland and Clifton who...
by PRSC | Sunday, February 20, 2011 | Art
It took me a long time to actually take a look at the Dove Street flats. Out of the corner of my eye I had seen them, three 1960s towers poking over the top of the buildings on the west side of Stokes Croft, or catching a glimpse of them down the long staricases and...
by PRSC | Monday, February 14, 2011 | Art
If you are free at 8:45 PM on Wednesday 16th February tune in to Four Thought on Radio 4 (though the programme will be available for a week or two on iPlayer too). As the blurb from the BBC puts it David Goldblatt argues that current models of urban redevelopment are...
by PRSC | Sunday, February 6, 2011 | Art
In his early architectural work, especially on churches, Godwin took a close interest in tiling, and his sketchbooks include many plans and designs for the floors of Northampton Town Hall and other buildings. In an interview with the magazine Woman and Work, he...
by PRSC | Thursday, February 3, 2011 | Art
(A knock at the door) Driftwood: Yes? Woman: Is my Aunt Minnie in here? Driftwood: Well, you can come in and prowl around if you wanna. If she isn’t in here, you can probably find somebody just as good… Woman: Well, can I use your phone? Driftwood: Use the...
by PRSC | Thursday, February 3, 2011 | Art
Better late than never – the latest work from Stokes Croft Murals in the communal rooms at Kings Square Studios – artwork by ASK: 3-Dom, sepr and epok ...
by PRSC | Tuesday, February 1, 2011 | Art
The Bear Pit (aka the sunken pedestrian precinct in the centre of the St James Barton Roundabout) is not just ugly and neglected – it is contagious. Unloved, neglected and dismal it is infecting the buildings and the space around it. The shops on its south side,...
by PRSC | Tuesday, January 25, 2011 | Art
For most of the 1870s Godwin was designing high-end wallpaper for some of the country’s leading paper stainers and art furniture houses. Only a tiny fraction of Godwins’ work has survived as wallpaper, but over fifty completed designs can be found...
by PRSC | Tuesday, January 25, 2011 | Art
Stokes Croft is changing, visually, culturally and economically; compared to even to a couple of years ago there is now more street art, more artists and exhibitions, more businesses and punters. So far, the forces of anodyne commercial development have been kept at...
