2022 Environmental Keywords Project
Participatory workshops in Barton Hill, Easton, St Philips & Hartcliffe, bringing together academics from multi disciplines, community organisations, including the Bristol Disability & Equality Forum, Eastside Community Trust and Heart of BS13 with creatives to determine how research can support communities equitably with climate change impacts and the cost of living with the Centre for Environmental Humanities& Earth Sciences Dept, at the University of Bristol
2020–2021 ‘Wishing Everyone‘ Mural– co-created with local artists: Amy’s beautiful herons lettering is by, Julia and Rosie, and swirls and colours by Mhari. This is part of our Hotwells Voices series as part of Art under the Flyover and will progress with outlines of characters holding banners with positive statements written by local people
2020 Build Back Better, TAPS NOW at Kosar Gallery, as part of a group show with The Artists Project Space
2020 Forevolution at the Centre of Gravity with Bristol Artist-Led Forum I devised Unlocking Bristol, The Sun Will Rise and so Will We and an installation for Finding Common Ground. I also facilitated younger artists and performers to participate and presented a talk called Alternative Approaches to Architecture. Here’s a little film I made as a provocation for Bristol DIY proposing the value of ‘artist-led’ initiatives.
Strength in the Community 2019–2020 is a public art piece destined for the corner of a housing development in Southmead, created through engagement with over a 100 residents of north Bristol. Commissioned by United Communities in collaboration with Grace Kress of Shelby X Studios and Luke Palmer of Collaborative Painting UK.
2019 PRESENTE is an art/documentary film, made for Inhabited Spaces, a group show in The Island Gallery in Bristol, curated by Maria Jose Carvalho and Amalia Pascal. I use archive footage and contemporary interviews to describe how people (in this case people close to me) migrate and integrate into communities and how those neighbourhoods change.
2018 Entitled an exhibition of contemporary women artists at Spike Island Open Studios
Sharing Communities is the name I gave to my Bristol 2015 Neighbourhood Arts Programme commission running from April to October 2015, as part of Bristol’s European Green Capital year.
The brief was to work across the Cabot, Clifton and Clifton East Neighbourhood Partnership area of Bristol engaging people in re-use, re-purposing and recycling.
It’s such a diverse area, taking in the leafy heights and former slave trade residencies of Clifton to council estates in Redcliffe with issues of disengagement and racism.
2008-2010 West Bristol Arts Trail was a response to local desires for an Art Trail and as the Community Development Officer for Hotwells and Cliftonwood Community Association I set this up with invaluable support and hard work of local volunteers. In 2009 I ran the trail as a free-lance volunteer and handed over in 2010
Anna Haydock-Wilson 