Bristol City Council's Public Art Strategy - Public Art Online
Bristol City Council's Public Art Strategy - Public Art Online
Bristol City Council's Public Art Strategy - Public Art Online
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The policy statement encourages the<br />
commission of public art and advises<br />
external organisations, including<br />
commercial developers, architects and<br />
the people of <strong>Bristol</strong> of the city council’s<br />
priorities.<br />
It raises awareness of the value of public<br />
art within all council departments;<br />
makes strategic links with other<br />
corporate policies and provides a<br />
consistent and coherent approach to<br />
public art across the authority.<br />
It aims to encourage and support public<br />
art development within all appropriate<br />
developments especially regeneration<br />
projects and environmental<br />
improvements works.<br />
It will provide a link with the statutory<br />
development plan and <strong>Bristol</strong>’s<br />
Community <strong>Strategy</strong>.<br />
It outlines how <strong>Bristol</strong> <strong>City</strong> Council will<br />
profile and support the commissioning<br />
of public art through the Development<br />
Proposals for the entrance and reception area of the Wellspring Healthy Living Centre, Barton Hill<br />
by lead artist Marion Brandis.<br />
city centreouter neighbourhoods<br />
Control process, respective development<br />
briefs, the use of planning conditions<br />
and Section 106 planning agreements.<br />
A vigorous application of this <strong>Public</strong> <strong>Art</strong><br />
Policy aims to:<br />
- initiate and support commissions for<br />
artists and makers;<br />
- invest in the arts and support the<br />
local creative economy;<br />
- involve artists both conceptually and<br />
practically in the development of<br />
<strong>Bristol</strong> Legible <strong>City</strong> and<br />
Neighbourhoods of Culture;<br />
- commission public art to enhance<br />
civic pride and <strong>Bristol</strong>’s status as a<br />
major European city;<br />
- create unique identity in areas of<br />
renewal and regeneration;<br />
- improve the built environment,<br />
encourage business relocation and<br />
economic development;<br />
- attract additional funds for<br />
regeneration to complement and<br />
extend existing budgets;<br />
- create and develop new audiences<br />
for the arts;<br />
- enhance community involvement<br />
and empowerment, to build capacity<br />
and respective skills;<br />
- promote a critical approach to the<br />
development of the urban and built<br />
environment.<br />
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