Preview: Throughout
Dates: Throughout
Times: n/a
Location: Bath (stemming from Walcot St)
Artists: Artists may include: Kate V. Robertson, Emma J Holloway, Sheila Broun and Jill Smith, Naomi Smith, Marcus FitzGibbon, Pat Jamieson, Katie Marr, Alex Stevenson, Hal Camplin, Rebecca Swindell

Curator: Hal Camplin/ Kangaroo Kourt
Website: www.kangarookourtart.com
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The idea has some origins in the sight of a number of elaborate, kitch roadside shrines in parts of Europe and even random bunches of flowers by the side of the road in the UK. These are often bizarre shrines to murder victims or more frequently victims of roadside accidents.The project has been focused in Bath which has dubbed 'beige city' for its legendary conservation policy designed to preserve the spa-town tourist disney land. Youth culture and street art have never really had a prescence -no surprise. But as in other repressive environments the temptation is just too great.

Some artists clearly like to remain with the traditional religious roots of the shrine but Kangaroo Kourt would like to hear from artists who present their own art through religious communication devices. Shrines might reference simple everyday objects or events or be more political.By street we mean anywhere viewable from the outside. Some are worth getting permission for to allow the work a bit more staying power but this project brings the fringe a surprise element.

The StreetShrine project aims:

-to attempt to use street spaces not even thought about are
-to distract from Bath's 'beige city' image
-to make work that is discrete at first glance
-and also to make impact work by chosing a site/object that might be recurring or repeating the same work in many different locations

Now there's maybe a sense in which these aims conflict i.e. to be discrete will allow the work to last for longer but this plays into the Bath's image makers' hands and helps to conserve its 'beigeness' (blandness?) So short term big impact may be more important to achieve, such as introducing big bright colours.

Please feel free to contact us at kangarookourt@blueyonder.co.uk if you want to get involved.