Tag: Ejits

7033. Hannover Place.

Ejits, Hannover Place, Bristol, June 2025
Ejits, Hannover Place, Bristol, June 2025

Hannover Place is probably most famous for the Banksy ‘girl with a pierced eardrum’ piece, which is still there, albeit with some paint damage. Just opposite is this shutter piece by Ejits, that absolutely made a lunchtime walk I took around the Harbourside a couple of weeks back.

Ejits, Hannover Place, Bristol, June 2025
Ejits, Hannover Place, Bristol, June 2025

I rarely walk around this area, so I’m not too sure how long the piece has been here, but it still looks in pretty good condition, so is probably months rather than years old. Ejits has a wonderful cartoon style that works so well on large or small walls. I am not too sure what is going on in this story piece, but it looks like there are many hands manipulating the central character. This might be a reference to the stop-frame animation technique used by Aardman animation studios, which is around the corner from this building. It is always great to find work by Ejits.

Banksy, Honover Place, Bristol, August 2015
Banksy, Honover Place, Bristol, August 2015

6294. Upfest 2024 (49)

Ejits, Upfest 2024, Greville Smyth Park, Bristol, May 2024
Ejits, Upfest 2024, Greville Smyth Park, Bristol, May 2024

A few weeks after Ejits painted this piece for Upfest, I was fortunate enough to meet her while she was painting a larger wall at the Cheltenham Paint Festival. She told me a little bit about her style and that she uses brushes for her work, because although she uses spray paint, her can control is not up to it for fine detail.

Ejits, Upfest 2024, Greville Smyth Park, Bristol, May 2024
Ejits, Upfest 2024, Greville Smyth Park, Bristol, May 2024

This is the second farting character piece I have posted in a matter of days, the other one was by Pl8o, this one however is a farting unicorn, farting rainbows, as they do. I have a feeling that Beep Monkey painted a rainbow-farting unicorn a few years ago. Obviously it is a thing. Ejits has painted this beautifully over a challenging wall with plenty of different textures to contend with. Neat, tidy, fun and cute… nice work all round.

Beep Monkey, Upfest, Bristol, July 2017
Beep Monkey, Upfest, Bristol, July 2017

5991. Cumberland Basin

Ejits, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, April 2024
Ejits, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, April 2024

The tragedy of Bristol Mural Collective paint jams is that all too often the pieces go unsigned and so many of them fail to make it into the pages of Natural Adventures. Fortunately, this piece by Ejits was signed, but she is also an established street artist, and I recognised her work in any case.

Ejits, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, April 2024
Ejits, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, April 2024

This cheeky little character piece is cleanly painted onto a graffiti wall, with part of a Klashwhensober piece behind it. Technically, it might have been polite to paint out Klashwhensober’s piece rather than leave half of it, but I don’t think he is the kind of writer who minds all that much. The adorable character has, it would seem, dropped a fart of toxic gas as described by the skull and crossbones in the ‘speech’ bubble.

5682. Leonard Lane (43)

Ejits, Leonard Lane, Bristol, November 2023
Ejits, Leonard Lane, Bristol, November 2023

Ejits is an artist I associate more with legal festival murals and commissions than with a paint jam in Leonard Lane, and yet here she is rubbing shoulders with all sorts of artists in this central Bristol spot. I suspect that it was painted as part of the recent paint jam in the Lane.

Ejits, Leonard Lane, Bristol, November 2023
Ejits, Leonard Lane, Bristol, November 2023

The stylised cartoon face is typical of Ejits’ work, characterised by dark outlines and solid fills, with no blending of colours. In this piece she has added a whole load of yellow doodles surrounding the face and adding interest to the piece. Annoyingly, the piece has been tagged, although it is not entirely unsurprising in this spot. I would love to see more of her work on the streets in addition to her commissions.

4568. Upfest 2022 (26)

This is one of two pieces painted by Ejits at this year’s festival, the other being a wall over a shop entrance on East Street. Although she doesn’t paint on the streets all that often, she does have one or two prominent murals in Bedminster.

Ejits, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022
Ejits, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022

Although I managed to photograph the piece as a work in progress, I unfortunately didn’t manage to cross paths with Ejits, which is a shame, but maybe next time. Ejits seems to be as comfortable painting on a small board as she is painting at scale and her straightforward solid fill characters are interesting and charming. I would say that her style is similar to that of Roo and Nol, although her characters are quite unique.

Ejits, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022
Ejits, Upfest 22, Bristol, May 2022

One could be forgiven for thinking that her half-finished piece was complete, because it was signed, but the final picture shows you how much impact the additional details make on the overall piece. Watch this space for her other Upfest 2022 piece.

3656. North Street

This wonderful and rather large mural is by Ejits, a Bristol artist and is the fifth instalment of the ‘six sisters’ shop facades opposite North Street Green. Orchestrated by Upfest and Bedminster BID, each of these beauties is painted by a local female artist, showcasing the wealth and breadth of street art in Bristol.

Ejits, North Street, Bristol, April 2021
Ejits, North Street, Bristol, April 2021

The piece is painted not with spray cans, but more traditionally with paints and brushes and features Ejits which Emily (the artist’s real name) describes as ‘a curious and playful bunch of illustrated characters created to brighten up and bring joy to your world’. Well mark this down as an outright success straight away. I will confess at this stage that I didn’t know about the artist before she painted this, but now that she is on my radar, I’ll look out for her studio work and any walls she might be decorating.

Zoe Power, Gemma Compton, Sophie Long and Ejits, North Street, Bristol, April 2021
Zoe Power, Gemma Compton, Sophie Long and Ejits, North Street, Bristol, April 2021

It is probably best to finish off with Emily’s own words about the piece which she calls ‘Rumpus’, taken from her beautiful website:

‘After a long year of lockdowns, I felt it was important to bring something colourful and joyful to this piece of public art. I took inspiration from Where the Wild Things are and Keith Haring to create something with a lot of movement and energy. That’s why the title of this piece is Rumpus!

The Six Sisters are hyped to be the largest mural project in the UK designed and painted by female street artists.

It sits in a prominent and popular part of the city on North Street Bedminster and also features murals by Bex Glover, Zoe Power, Gemma Compton and Sophie Long. Lucas Antics will be the sixth and final artist to add her mural to the line-up.‘