00:00It's always been and always will be about kind of the artists meeting each other and
00:04getting together and stuff. But yeah the festival itself has grown sort of
00:08exponentially over the last sort of like 18 years and this year we'll see
00:12around about 80,000 visitors over the 17 days. We've got 300 artists in town over
00:18that period, 150 of those are painting on the streets, the wall murals. So the
00:23things on the wall I think you know almost deserves to change. It's almost
00:27like redecorating your house. You know actually everybody wants to refresh every
00:31now and again and suddenly it makes you feel better and sort of also gives new
00:35artists new opportunities to sort of put you know new messages out there or look
00:40at sort of like emerging artists or you know comment on sort of like social
00:43messaging and you know that sort of thing. It's about diversity, it's about
00:47seeing artwork and styles, various styles from around the world and bringing
00:53them here to Bristol which obviously becomes synonymous with sort of like with
00:56street art. Keep that elevator, keep Bristol in the mind of people around the
01:01world for for what it is you know a creative city, progressive city, a city
01:06that sort of talks about you know the social commentary and the kind of the
01:10world issues and that sort of thing. This is actually a glacier calving it's
01:14representing a glacier calving which is like the process of when the ice melts and
01:19breaks off and falls into the ocean then most of my work has like a visual
01:23storytelling element to it and then you'll see that it's paired with some
01:27words don't let me go which for me represents like my personal connection to
01:33landscape and in this like this era of climate change and trying to understand
01:39what it means as a human. There's a lot of ways to transfer a design that you've
01:44created like small scale onto a wall and I chose to do a doodle grid for this one
01:50because it was just the quickest way for me to transfer the design and find the
01:54map so the symbols actually don't mean anything and they represent I guess the
02:01best way to say it would be a map. I came up with the concept based on the
02:05shape of the wall it's a slightly odd shaped wall so what I really try to
02:09explore in my work is movement so once it is all up there that you'll be able to
02:15see there's a bit of a pull and push kind of movement which I've tried to
02:18capture coming up the wall. This really light color palette though is new for me
02:23because I've kept it in line with the existing mural next to it so it will
02:28still complement it without overpowering it either so that has actually been
02:32really nice to play with.
02:33Peter just kind of painted birds throughout kind of human history really so I'm just
02:36kind of doing that in like a modern context I'm kind of trying to do that
02:40blood scale with spray paint on the street and just working out you know that
02:46interaction with you know kind of nature and you know kind of like a built up
02:50kind of concrete environment and just kind of I guess just showing showing you
02:54what's really there showing you the nature that you know exists around but
02:57just kind of just blowing it off large.
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