7049. Stapleton Road

Mage and Piewaste, Stapleton Road, Bristol, June 2025
Mage and Piewaste, Stapleton Road, Bristol, June 2025

This is one of those stacked collaborations that have to be taken as a pair, because separating them might look a little bit awkward. I am not 100% sure that it was painted as a collaboration or whether both artists painted their pieces separately, but you can see that Piewaste’s piece overlaps Mage’s piece above it, and was therefore completed second.

Mage and Piewaste, Stapleton Road, Bristol, June 2025
Mage and Piewaste, Stapleton Road, Bristol, June 2025

Mage has presented a regular set of letters, but with a creative fill that includes a dashed line pattern reversed out. It is great to see an artist reinventing himself in the way he has with a completely new set of letters, although I have to say I preferred his old letters.

Piewaste, who has written WASTE in letters that are close to anamorphic, creating a strong sense of depth and three dimensions, also includes his trademark eyes looking out from the writing like a cartoon forest at night (kind of thing). Nice to see these two pieces together like this.

6741. M32 Cycle path (283)

Piewaste, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, January 2025
Piewaste, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, January 2025

Very occasionally we are lucky enough to find pieces by Piewaste. His work tends to blend in with its surroundings, and it can be quite easy to pass on by without noticing it – unless you are like me, and wired to sniff out such pieces wherever they might be.

Piewaste, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, January 2025
Piewaste, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, January 2025

Piewaste has written three thin-edged letters (WSE) interspersed with two pink-filled letters (AT) to spell out WASTE, but all elements of this writing kind of disappear unless you are concentrating. The three green-bordered letters are filled with an incredible scene, as if you are looking through letter-shaped windows. This is a brilliant piece that is so modestly presented. This is why I like to keep my eyes open and really study what is around me.

A paradox?

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Outside rain crashes

I’m singing in the shower

did I miss something?

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by Scooj

5332. Brunel Way (212)

Lee Roy and Waste, Brunel Way, Bristol, June 2023
Lee Roy and Waste, Brunel Way, Bristol, June 2023

This was my third attempt at photographing this fine collaboration from Lee Roy and Waste, under Brunel Way, because of the rather irritating light and shadow that is cast on sunny days from the left. I got there in the end. I was lucky enough to be there when the artists were painting the piece and I got to meet Lee Roy for the first time, and what a genuinely lovely person he is – we chatted plenty.

Lee Roy, Brunel Way, Bristol, June 2023
Lee Roy, Brunel Way, Bristol, June 2023

The collaborative wall is clever in that each side is a reversed-out colour version of the other, and how different they look, using the same powerful pink and black colour scheme. Lee Roy talked to me about his rather free style and said that he used to write really tight letters, in a more traditional graffiti manner, but that he found it increasingly unenjoyable, striving for perfection and instead has adopted a more liberated style, tending towards anti-style. He certainly seems to be happy with his current work, and has been churning out pieces at a terrific rate so far this year.

Waste, Brunel Way, Bristol, June 2023
Waste, Brunel Way, Bristol, June 2023

I don’t know much about Waste, other than that he is a friend of Lee Roy’s from out of town. I forget where… Cardiff? Swindon? I should have made a note. I like this piece a lot, and note that Waste has made things easy for himself, using the ‘tram-lines’ in the wall to keep his letters regular. All in all a very nice collaborative wall, which fortunately remained undogged long enough for me to get some decent photographs.

Bleak Friday

 

Consumerism

at its mind boggling worst

what hope the planet?

 

by Scooj

 

Putting the bins out

 

Very possibly

it’s my least favourite job

better walk the dog.

 

by Scooj

 

Bin day blues

 

Rotting food street smells

my walk to work polluted;

reality check.

 

by Scooj

Holiday tip trip (or more correctly, recycling centre)

 

Unloved posessions

and accumulated junk;

a Christmas chuck-out.

 

by Scooj