Art Street 2017
For 2017 we moved the focus of the festival arts into the town centre with Art Street – six artist commissions especially created to bring great art into the outdoor spaces of the town centre for six weeks during June to July. These included bright lampshades installed outside the shops and in the Minster grounds, ‘To Let’ signs that featured stunning photos of local people and their stories, three huge tile murals in and around the market co-created with artists and local people, an interactive light installation above the shops fronts, and a flower garden bursting out of a filing cabinet on Church Street. We also had the fun performance of ‘Toni and Tony and their Trusty Trike’ popping up throughout July to entertain shoppers.
In the middle of July the weekend arts and music festival, renamed ‘Big Weekend’, happened along London Road. Two days of fun and creative activities, including Acoustic Café, the mainstage, and all the festival artists appearing.
In the middle of July the weekend arts and music festival, renamed ‘Big Weekend’, happened along London Road. Two days of fun and creative activities, including Acoustic Café, the mainstage, and all the festival artists appearing.
Alice Cunningham
'Let by'Bristol-based artist will use traditional ‘To Let’ signs to challenge the dominance of property markets on the look and feel of a town centre. Instead Alice will be engaging with real people from our community to present a different view of who shapes our streets. What will people want on their ‘Let By’ sign? Something which represents humanity, community, cherished possessions, things we value…
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Laurel Gallagher
'Follow the Birds'Laurel promises to bring her “sense of wild fun” into the centre of Stoke turning the urban environment of the town into a 3D interactive painting. The location of the birds will ensure that you can catch a glimpse of them whether you are walking, cycling, traveling by bus or car through the streets. Where will you spot them? Where will you wander? Where will they fly away to?
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Adam Pryce & Nic Wynstanley
'Proud of Stoke'Adam and Nic will create a stylish ceramic tile mural that celebrates the places, history and people of Stoke. Picking up on the traditional colours of former Stoke-based pottery Spode, but adding a completely up-to-date twist interweaving responses from local people to the question ‘What makes you proud?’ It will be a beautiful, quality and classy tribute to Stoke.
The murals are presently installed in and around Stoke Market. |
The Cultural Sisters
'Inside Outside'For their Festival Stoke commission titled Inside Outside artists Deb Rogers and Fiona Waddle will create a colourful craft-bomb installation of up-cycled domesticity around Stoke town. Look out and look up for the curious, up-cycled artworks in different locations and listen out for the voices of local people.
Rachel Ballard
'Greening Church Street'
Rachel created a garden for Church Street using old office furniture and planting a lawn for the street. It lasted for a whole six months, brightening up Church Street.
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Oliver Sherlock & Samuel Freeman
'Flow'Oliver and Samuel are bringing their interactive light sculpture to the centre of the Stoke along Church Street. A beautiful and amazing light awning which contains hundreds of overhead LED lights will flow above your heads, like birds interacting with one-another and with passers-by along the street. You can wander and wonder with the flight and flow.
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Scratch & Sniff
'Toni & Tony'‘The Great Arty Party Throwdown Art-off Show with Toni and Tony and their Trusty Trike’
There’s going to be some colourful and crazy fun around the town when Toni and Tony get out and about on their tricycle. Watch out for them popping up in unexpected and ordinary places to make you chuckle with their antics. Any resemblance to recent TV competitions will be completely accidental of course! |
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