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...
by PRSC | Thursday, January 20, 2011 | Art
While in later life Godwin was a creative polymath, the first twenty years of his career were focused on architecture and much of that work was done in Bristol. 1848 At the age of fifteen Godwin was articled to William Armstrong, City...
by PRSC | Tuesday, January 18, 2011 | Art
There is, as far as I can see, no online directory or compilation of Godwin’s many different works. Images and information are scattered across many sites, in various museum collections, private ownership and antiques galleries. Following the principle of “if you...
by PRSC | Monday, January 17, 2011 | Art
Stokes Croft is, as you will know from the sign in the central reservation at the southern end of the street, twinned with St Ives. I wonder whether Tite Street in Chelsea might be a better match? On first glance the connections may not be entirely obvious. Tite...
