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New mural celebrates Bristol City’s legacy
If you wander down Ashton Road it’s hard to miss the huge red mural being painted just outside Ashton Gate’s Atyeo Stand entrance.
The mural, which is titled ‘Pride of the Past: Bristol City’s Legends Through the Lens’, is the latest in a series from Art4Fans, a Bristol fan collective “celebrating individuals who have excelled in a particular field” and their supporters.
Art4Fans and their collaborators have previously created three other murals around the stadium, including one commemorating club legend Chris Garland painted on the nearby Coopers Arms pub.
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At just over 44 feet tall and covering three-storeys, the Atyeo Stand project is their largest to date.
The piece will portray Bristol City’s history from as early as 1909, highlighting stars Alan Dicks, John Atyeo, Paul Cheesley, Terry Cooper, Steve Cotterill, Joe Jordan and Scott Murray.
A collaborative project, the mural is being designed and painted by Bristol street artists Jody and Inkie, while Robins fans have also had the chance to contribute, with people donating to the project getting their names painted alongside club celebrities.
Art4Fans founder Chris Bradfield said that, in this way, the mural will “celebrate the fan as much as the character”.
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Jody, who adorned the Tobacco Factory with a four-storey mural of Greta Thunberg in 2019, said: “If you mix street art and another culture, like football, it makes for incredibly powerful art… it becomes a bit of a shrine for people.”
“Wall space in Bristol is dwindling massively, and there’s an ever-increasing amount of artists… [But] this is a really great wall, and it’s also very easy to photograph.”
The mural will be officially unveiled, weather-dependent, on Thursday 7, with the legends painted (or otherwise representatives) expected to be in attendance.
Main photo: Edie Earle
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