Colourful public art celebrating the city’s past, present and future, The Centre, Bristol, installed September 2025.
Category Archives: art
Appealing
Vintage painting of dog looking winsome and appealing in vintage clothes shop, Bristol.
Moth
A door, hiding in plain sight behind the bubble letters of some street art, down an alleyway off Cross Street, Abergavenny.
Seahorse
One of a pair of horses pulling the trireme of one of the tritons, Cardiff City Hall (1890, now the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University), by Frederick William Pomeroy (1857-1924).
Geometry
Late 19th-century statue of Edmund Burke, late 18th-century Anglo-Irish MP for Bristol, with 21st-century geometric mobile. City centre, Bristol.
Jacobean
Decorative details on a Jacobean tomb in St Stephen’s church, Bristol.
Frog
Undercroft of a Georgian terrace off Park Street, Bristol, with street art.
Potty
In 2009 the artist Banksy (who was born in Bristol) ‘took over’ Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and overnight transformed it by installing – or substituting – artworks which were culturally or politically subversive, such as his Paint Pot Angel (which remains on permanent exhibition in the building’s entrance hall).
Soul
Memorial of angel conducting a soul’s thoughts heavenwards, Downend, Bristol
Memorial
Statue of a warrior queen proclaiming peace. War memorial, Llandaff, Cardiff.
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