500cm x 220 cm // Acrylic & ink on canvas // 2022
Procession is a monumental scale painting commissioned by Bricks for the new £16 million, 214 room Moxy Hotel Bristol, as part of a bold and ultra-local programme of public art.
The artworks celebrate the culturally rich neighbouring communities in St Paul’s, along with the rich history of the site itself. The programme responds to the historic moments that the site and local people have witnessed, whilst looking ahead to the future and what that might hold for the area and those who use it.
Procession is an explosion of colour and vibrancy, drawing on images from St Paul’s Carnival as well as motifs from local built heritage. Working alongside organisers of St Paul’s Carnival to source photography from across its decades of annual celebrations, the resulting painting draws on figurative shapes and key colours to evoke the atmosphere of the carnival procession, with layered areas of detail that become clearer the nearer you stand to the surface.