graffiti street art Bowls Club, Greville Smyth Park Bristol

graffiti street art Bowls Club, Greville Smyth Park Bristol

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Dutch artist Nol has two little pieces on the bowls club. Part of a little Nol treasure hunt they have been popping up all over Bedminster

Combining a figurative style with vivid colours and shapes, MMG’s work plays with a kind of complexity or duopoly. It results she says from the “fascination of trying to capture the essence of something as complex as a human being”. The two central images for her piece at Upfest 2022 show fellow artist Nazarena Silva. Images which reveal some of the different parts of them as a person. The two central characters are also representative of MMG’s own personal exploration. Composing the two figures with different colours, it’s about “finding out who I am as an artist” she says. It’s a recent direction that she has been exploring within her recent work. To put that move on full display and to reveal that battle within

An artist from Brighton, Sprite is known for her paintings of the natural world. For Upfest on the side of the bowls club she has painted a sugar glider possum clambering down the wall

A portrait inspired from Jamel’s Arabic heritage. The portrait he says “represents my fascination in people and the human mind”. Saying that with his work he wants to try and “capture glimpses under the surface through the surreal images”. In the background Arabic writing behind the portrait reads ‘A True Friend will see the pain in your eyes while everyone else will only see the smile on your face

 Upfest regular Andrew Burns Colwill is one of Bristol’s original street artists from the 80’s. He is known for his political and environmental work. The man seen in the mural is a figure he comes back to in his paintings. He is representing the climate danger we find ourselves in. This time he is crouched on hot coals. The planet beneath his feet is burning up. The watch he carries has the time 2 minutes to 12. The time is almost up and he knows it