Tag: Writer

6937. St Werburghs tunnel (499)

Kid Krishna, St Werburghs, Bristol, March 2025
Kid Krishna, St Werburghs, Bristol, March 2025

We’re back to this wall at the entrance to St Werburghs tunnel, where photography is difficult when a single piece occupies the space, because of the street furniture and also the light conditions, which are often quite challenging. This is a roundabout way of saying that I don’t think that these photographs do justice to the outstanding piece by Kid Krishna.

Kid Krishna, St Werburghs, Bristol, March 2025
Kid Krishna, St Werburghs, Bristol, March 2025

The organic writing, spelling out CRIE, seems to be ‘bubbling’ or oozing out of the wall, and Kid Krishna has worked on this effect by accentuating the brickwork of the wall around the piece. The range of colours and starbursts fill the abstract piece with energy, providing a feast for the eye. Kid Krishna is on a roll!

6936. M32 roundabout J3 (681)

Hypo, M32 roundabout, Bristol, March 2025
Hypo, M32 roundabout, Bristol, March 2025

It is a great thing that Hypo has made more time for his graffiti writing over the last year or two. His regular appearances, painting the letters HYPO are more than welcome, and he has upped his game considerably over that time.

Hypo, M32 roundabout, Bristol, March 2025
Hypo, M32 roundabout, Bristol, March 2025

This is another piece in which he uses colour to the maximum, something he is really accomplished at, and he presents his letters with what looks like a water mark running horizontally through the letters. With subtle white highlights, his letters have a superb 3D effect, leaping out from the wall. This is a blinder of a piece.

6935. Cumberland Basin

Todoaciem, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, May 2025
Todoaciem, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, May 2025

I believe that Todoaciem has moved back to his native Spain, which would explain the absence of his outstanding calligraffiti on Bristol’s streets in recent months. I think he makes the journey back from time to time, probably to see his Bristol friends, and when he does he drops a piece, and this was a recent one from Cumberland Basin.

Todoaciem, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, May 2025
Todoaciem, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, May 2025

As ever, the writing is inch-perfect, spelling out CIEM, with incredible precision and discipline. The horizontal depressions in the wall make it a little easier to gain the uniformity of the letters, but that doesn’t take away from the skill needed to paint with this level of accuracy. Todoaciem’s fills transition beautifully in horizontal layers, and create a kind of metallic sheen for the piece. It is always great to find a piece by Todoaciem, especially as they are fairly infrequent these days.

6934. Dean Lane skate park (833)

Jee See, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2025
Jee See, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2025

It was a genuine pleasure to catch up with Jee See just as he was finishing off this piece in Dean Lane. Jee See was the second street artist I made contact with, back in 2017, after meeting Decay in the Bearpit, and I have been enjoying his work ever since.

Jee See, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2025
Jee See, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2025

This is a SEISMIC/Mr Nobody combination piece, which includes the phrase “H is for…”, and according to what Jee See told me, H is for Heterosexual who Hates Homophobia, and for cisHet ally.

Jee See blends his trademark seismic writing with the cartoon face and the Gothic ‘H’, bringing all the elements together successfully in quite a small space. It was great to catch up with the artist, as he doesn’t get out to paint much these days – a serendipitous moment.

Nice One

A gallery of outstanding writing, portraits and landscapes by the brilliant Bristol artist Nice One.

All photographs by Scooj

Nice One, Stapleton Road, Bristol, April 2025
Nice One, Stapleton Road, Bristol, April 2025
Nice One, Montpelier Park, Bristol, April 2025
Nice One, Montpelier Park, Bristol, April 2025
Nice One, Stapleton Road, Bristol, February 2025
Nice One, Stapleton Road, Bristol, February 2025
Nice One, Purdown, Bristol, February 2025
Nice One, Purdown, Bristol, February 2025
Nice One, Greenway Bush Lane, Bristol, January 2025
Nice One, Greenway Bush Lane, Bristol, January 2025
Nice One, Greenway Bush Lane, Bristol, January 2025
Nice One, Greenway Bush Lane, Bristol, January 2025
Nice One, Stapleton Road, Bristol, January 2025
Nice One, Stapleton Road, Bristol, January 2025
Solar and Nice One, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, June 2024
Solar and Nice One, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, June 2024
Nice One, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2024
Nice One, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2024
Nice One, Greenbank, Bristol, October 2024
Nice One, Greenbank, Bristol, October 2024
Nice One, Montpelier Park, Bristol, June 2024
Nice One, Montpelier Park, Bristol, June 2024
Nice One, Brunel Way, Bristol, July 2024
Nice One, Brunel Way, Bristol, July 2024
Nice One, Dean Lane, Bristol, August 2024
Nice One, Dean Lane, Bristol, August 2024

6932. Greenbank (158)

Normally, when Haka paints one of his graffiti writing/character combination pieces, I recognise the character from a children’s picture book. This time Haka has stumped me – I am not familiar with any books containing a lizard, and can’t tell you too much more about it.

Some classic HAKA letters sandwich the lizard, although I note that only the right-hand side has been decorated with stars. I wonder if that is an omission, or whether it is the lizard that has emitted the stars from its claw. The lovely piece was difficult to photograph on such a sunny afternoon, something that has been a constant problem during our glorious spring.

6930. M32 roundabout (680)

Lupa, M32 roundabout, Bristol, April 2025
Lupa, M32 roundabout, Bristol, April 2025

I’ve said it before and I will say it again, there is an authenticity I really like about Lupa’s work. Her modest pieces stick to her general formula, and her letters are unpretentious and fun.

Lupa, M32 roundabout, Bristol, April 2025
Lupa, M32 roundabout, Bristol, April 2025

In this piece she has pushed herself to incorporate an intricate grey and white box background pattern which must have taken ages to do. It has worked really well and raise the interest level in the piece considerably. Her letters are nicely filled with a combination of colours that are easy on the eye. A very nice piece of graffiti writing from Lupa.

6928. Brunel Way (314)

Sait Bare, Brunel Way, Bristol, May 2025
Sait Bare, Brunel Way, Bristol, May 2025

I have to be a little brief this morning. I am staying with family, and I think breakfast is ready…

I have noticed that Sait Bare likes to paint in this area by the river, and would guess that he probably lives nearby.

Sait Bare, Brunel Way, Bristol, May 2025
Sait Bare, Brunel Way, Bristol, May 2025

Perhaps the most notable thing about this lovely piece is the colour selection, which reminds me of a stick of rhubarb, and once seen that way, it can’t be unseen. The letters SAIT are nicely filled in the base colours and liberally decorated with colour- matched dots. The whole thing is nicely rounded off with a black and white stripy drop shadow. An attractive piece of graffiti writing.

6925. Dean Lane skate park (832)

Hire, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2025
Hire, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2025

It is a little disappointing that I have missed a couple of pieces by Hire this year, which is a real pity. You have to be quick off the mark in this game, and if you snooze, you lose. However, it does feel like Hire’s pieces, a bit like Kid Crayon’s pieces, tend to get painted over rather quickly. I am not sure if this is deliberate targeting or simply bad luck, I would like to think it is the latter, but whatever the reason, it makes their work feel even more precious.

Hire, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2025
Hire, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2025

This is a slightly strange piece by Hire, which I think is meant to represent a pile of poo, with some excited insects making the most of it. Certainly it is an unusual composition in brown (why is everyone painting with brown this spring?), spelling out ODIAH, letters which Hire likes to use from time to time. How much better the piece looks with the subtle green glow on the edge of the letters, without which it would all look a little flat. Unusual and interesting work from Hire.

Lemmings that pivot

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Winds of change blowing

charter for sycophancy

to be seen to do

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by Scooj

  • I have been around the block a few times in my job as a public servant and civil servant, and observed the ‘change lust’ that occupies Ministers, their Special Advisers and organisational seniors. It is a sight to see, where ‘yes men and women’ unquestioningly make change, because ‘change is the new norm’, and who would dare challenge or suggest alternatives.
  • All Governments and Government Departments do it. It causes disruption, but the surge in activity looks like something is being done, and ‘that’s what the voters want to see’. What the voters don’t see are the inefficiencies of change, the costs of change, and that top-down change rarely results in the outcomes hoped for, but hey ‘at least we were doing something’.
  • I’m an old cynic. It is my job to question and to call out what I think is wrong. I am no pragmatist or ‘human resource counter’, I am a brilliant employee who has to go through and try to survive another huge change, but survive I will. And all the others who are caught up in this flurry of excitement will move on and take their disruption with them.