Colourful public art celebrating the city’s past, present and future, The Centre, Bristol, installed September 2025.
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Geometry
Late 19th-century statue of Edmund Burke, late 18th-century Anglo-Irish MP for Bristol, with 21st-century geometric mobile. City centre, Bristol.
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).
Worshippers
Checking off the golden unicorn from the list, Bristol Harbourside. Part of a multi-site installation marking Bristol 650, a year-long celebration of all things Bristol six and a half centuries after it was given the status of a city and county by the Crown. A pair of unicorns feature as ‘supporters’ of the city’s coatContinue reading “Worshippers”
Steadfast
Anthony Gormley sculpture, Birmingham
Thinking
Gallery balustrade figure of a fantastical classical warrior, seated with beast’s head helmet, almost life size, Glynn Vivian gallery, Swansea
Everyman
Figure by Anthony Gormley, Leeds Art Gallery
Vanquisher
Memorial, Leeds, including statue of St George and the Dragon
Minutiae 