Stokes Croft paints its own future
thus enhancing its sense of identity, its sense of community.
Because of the economically challenged nature of Stokes Croft,
there are many locations where there are gaps in the normal commercial landscape.
This can be seen as a disadvantage, a gap-toothed smile.
PRSC sees only opportunity, the opportunity to flavour forever the visual nature of our quarter.
Historic Detail on the skyline of Bristol News, 41 Jamaica Street, Stokes Croft
There remains little of the signwriting and painting that emblazoned all of Stokes Croft in its heyday.
We believe that the use of the surfaces of buildings as a canvas, which is demonstrably part of our heritage,
should inform and direct the overall appearance of Stokes Croft as the Cultural Quarter of Bristol.
PLEASE NOTE:
PRSC believes that the only way forward is to do things ourselves, without top-down planning.
No work must damage the essential fabric of any of the property involved.
We work to gain permissions where possible forworks, but reserve the right to direct action
where normal rights are deemed to have been been abrogated
by either the owners of properties through neglect, lack of concern or through self-interest.
It is the belief of PRSC that local government has lost the right to determine, from its lofty heights,
the future of our area, after decades of lack of interest and lack of service.
We welcome the support of government agency, but this support will have to meet our terms,
as decided by ourselves through public debate...
Above: The Apothecaire, a shopfront refurbished without any permission,
work which has subsequently been retained by the owner.
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Currently, in 2011, we often liaise with owners of properties, who are increasingly receptive to the street art in Stokes Croft.
The local populace have increasingly taken on a curatorial role towards their Public Spaces.
The last four years of painting and positive direct action in the public realm has created a much more receptive attitude.
Bristol City Council Clean And Green Anti Graffiti teams no longer routinely buff out pieces of work
(Though we know that some of them would like to).
Things seem to work much better when they leave us alone.
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"LIST OF SITES TO PAINT" (Compiled in 2007)
The catalogue of available walls in Stokes Croft (BELOW) is now out of date.
This collection of images offer a snapshot of how Stokes Croft looked in Early 2007,
at the time PRSC started its campaign of direct action.
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