easton arts trail

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New Site-Specific Installations, Performances, Interactions & Workshops

This year the Easton Arts Trail is pleased to announce that we have awarded a number of small bursaries to encourage local artists, makers and performers to create new site-specific work that will run along the Bristol to Bath cycle path as it runs through Easton as part of this years arts trail.

These installations and performances will be situated along the cycle path between the Bruce Road/Gratitude Road slipway and the Easton Community Centre and will take place between 12am-6pm (unless otherwise stated) on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 June.

Mani Wheels
Helen Grant: helonious@yahoo.com

Helen will be creating Easton’s own prayer wheels from reclaimed and recycled materials. She will be encouraging passers by to write their own prayers and to insert them in the prayer wheels before spinning them. This installation will be sited near to the Russell Town Avenue entrance to the cycle path.

Stinger
Tim Floyd: www.timfloyd.co.uk

An installation made from and about ‘Urtica Dioica’ the Stinging Nettle. This piece will consist of a sculpture constructed from nettles found growing on and around the cycle-path, prints on handmade nettle paper, examples of various nettle products and demonstrations: weaving with nettle fibres and nettle cooking using a rocket stove. The aim of this installation is to celebrate one of the natural resources that are abundant along the cycle path and to draw attention to its many uses. It will be sited along the cycle path near to the Easton Community Centre.

A glimpse of the fruiture
Saturday 12-2pm & Sunday 2-4pm
Rebecca Ellis & Peter Hunter: artemisbristol@yahoo.com

This sculptural piece is a collaboration between artist, Rebecca Ellis and artist/film maker, Peter Hunter. The installation is intended to amuse/shock and make the onlooker question the role consumers play in the stock our shops display. The audiences’ responses to this installation will be recorded and then published on Easton Arts Trail website after the event. This installation will be located in the Permaculture Garden at the Easton Community Centre.

Tricyclabot
Jo King, Annabell Neilson & Julie Jones: www.feltesque.co.uk

This sculptural installation is a collaboration between felt textile artist Jo King and blacksmiths Annabell Neilson & Julie Jones. They have joined forces to create the Tricyclabot: ‘a living creature born after the end of civilisation half robot, half organic living matter, she is wise and cunning and mischievous too’. This installation can be found on the cycle path near to the Easton Community Centre.

It’s easier to name a goldfish…
Hazel Hammond & Ceri Clements: hazelahammond@hotmail.com

Come and join in - leave a message for others along the cycle path near to the Devon Road Bridge. Write your answer to a secret question on the flags provided and help make this installation alive and constantly different.. it responds to you and so do ‘the fish wives of Easton!!!’

Key to the hood
Kerbscrawlers: www.graffitibadges.com

Ground level street art designed to make you think about the space between arts trail venues and to encourage you to look for ‘art’ in unusual places by providing a starting point for looking around and considering the interaction of art and nature in an urban environment. These symbols and messages will appear on the cycle path and on kerbside positions on the streets of the Easton.

Slow Here
Rhiannon Chaloner: Rhiannonchaloner@hotmail.com

This text and image based installation will be developed over a period of time during the run up to the Easton Arts Trail, with the results exhibited along the cycle path during the weekend.

Man Block Tree
Daniel Bendel: www.artoose.net

Daniel will be creating a series of sculptures that will be staggered along the cycle path to create the illusion of a man morphing into a tower block and then into a tree as pedestrians and cyclists travel along the path. These sculptures will run along the edge of the cycle path near to the Bruce Road/Gratitude Road slip way.

The Butterfly Effect
Sally Reay: www.sallyreay.com

Sally Reay is fascinated by the way nature continually strives to regain a foothold in urban environments, how it transforms railway tracks, car parks and industrial buildings into small nature reserves. This installation uses recycled and reclaimed materials to represents transformation and regeneration and can be found along the cycle path near to the Bruce Road/Gratitude Road slipway.

Nectar
Ben Dewey – louis.dewey@gmail.com

Ben’s small wind generated automaton are made from recycled and reclaimed materials and will be sited along the cycle path in a strategic location not far from the Bruce Road/Gratitude Road slipway.

Shade - A Guided Tour & Performance
Saturday 21 June, starts 1.30pm

Shade is a collaboration between Jacky Puzey and fellow artists Liz Lambert, Folake Shoga, Hilary Ramsden and Baljinder Bhopal and Transition Easton. To find out more about Jacky Puzey and her work visit:
www.artbathspa.com/research/doctoral-students/jacky_puzey.htm

For the Easton Arts Trail Shade is a performance and guided tour based around the idea of influence and exchange, migration and culture. It’s about beautifully tailored suits acting as passports, getting you into places that you might not expect. It’s also about creating ‘shade’, a slang term from Trinidadian Carnival, meaning to make such a fabulous costume that everyone else is literally in your shade, under your influence.

This performance and guided tour will take in the Cycle Path, East Side Roots Community Garden Centre and the Thali Café, ending up at St Marks Road Baptist Church. If you would like to participate in this two hour long performance and tour please meet on the cycle path outside the Easton Community Centre between 1.30-2pm on Saturday 21 June. Shade performers will meet and greet guests and handout visas for the trip and cups of freshly harvested mint tea and will introduce you to your fellow tourists. The tour aims to set off at about 2.15pm.

Please note: a maximum of 20 ‘guests’ will be able to participate in this tour at any one given time but you may join in or drop out at various stopping off points. Also this is a walking tour and we cannot guarantee disabled access or convenient rest points. In bad weather this performance/tour will be based at the St Mark’s Road Baptist Church so please meet there at 1.30pm instead.

The ‘suits’ worn by the performers during this tour will be on display at St Marks Road Baptist Church on Sunday 22 June from 11am-6pm. A tour route and information sheet about the performance will be available a week before the trail from.

FREE Pedal Powered Family Friendly Creative Workshop
Sunday 22 June, 12-5pm

The APE Project: www.apeproject.co.uk

The APE Project specialises in creative workshops for children and young people, which promote healthy lifestyles and environmental awareness. Established and conceived by Guy Dobson and Rachel Davies, the project was set up to challenge childhood obesity, promote cycling, celebrate the arts and remove carbon emissions entirely and most importantly highlight the value of play.

The APE Project will be running a family friendly spin art workshop powered by a tricycle made entirely from 100% recycled scrap bikes and metal. They will also be demonstrating a zoetrope made from recycled bicycle wheels. A zoetrope is a cylinder with slots cut into it, below which are placed sequential drawings or photographs. The zoetrope is then spun by cycling the trike and the animation reveals itself. You can either enjoy existing zoetrope animations or create your own!

The APE Project will be running this workshop and demonstration on the large green verge that runs along the cycle path near to Devon Road Bridge.