Visualising Stokes Croft

This project emerged from a workshop run by IC Visual Lab in Bristol along with the Spanish artist, Julian Baron. The aim of the original workshop was to visualise the housing crisis using both archive and original material, and the application of Baron’s practice of art creation through the use of photocopiers. There final work was a mural on the public gallery wall of the Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC), a community activist group and social space, in Bristol. During the installation the founder of PRSC, Chris Chalkley, offered to give me an archive of images that he accumulated in the intervening 10 since its establishment to produce a piece of work that reflected the nature of PRSC’s presence in the area. Central to PRSC is street art and they have systematically painted a number of sites in the immediate area of their centre, documenting the sites over time, as new painting was added or covered over, and the changes that occurred in the area more generally. This visual chronology was so extensive that I felt it an appropriate collection to apply techniques that I had utilised in previous projects, in order to create a visual representation of the time and space that the collection represented.