Bedminster Green Public Art
The scale of development taking place at Bedminster Green provides a unique opportunity for the site-wide delivery of public art.
Scoped and agreed with developers, and informed by a community ‘Hive’ group, the ‘Futureweave’ strategy sets out the foundations for developing a programme of cultural commissioning across the regeneration area, with an aspiration that this leads to ongoing cultural and creative programming within Bedminster Green and surrounding area.
Hive workshop process. Credit: Harriet Hand
Futureweave
‘Futureweave’ (as the strategy is named) is a programme of artist residencies leading to a range of permanent and event based cultural activity and public art commissioning within and beyond the Bedminster Green plots.
The programme began in Spring 2025 with the commissioning of two residencies attached to the ‘Metalworks’ development on Dalby avenue by Watkin Jones. Working alongside Bristol City Council and Ginkgo, Watkin Jones commissioned ‘Common Threads’ by poet Leeza Awojobi and ‘A Rivers Path’ by composter Liam Taylor-West.
The Residencies
Ongoing residencies will respond to three identified themes with relevance site-wide: Shared happening (bringing people together), greening, and connecting narratives and deliver to the following wider priorities: growing skills capacity, communications, legacy development.
Many projects coming out of the residencies will have a physical presence within the built environment or public realm; others will result in enduring memories/experiences which will come out of the opportunities for existing and new residents and communities to engage with artists and their creative practice.
