4-6pm on the 5th September 2026
Starting at Fremantle House emtrance and visiting each mural.
Performances
Free food and refreshments
Meet the Lord Mayor and artists
Author: Mike
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Come and Celebrate our Mural Project on the 5th September
Bristol Lord Mayor Councillor Yassin Mohamud meeting kids from Dove Street at St Matthews Summer Fair in July 2026 -
Come and Paint Our Entrances!
Help make Dove Street beautiful!
It’s your chance to make your mark, so you can see your painting every time you come home!
No artistic experience necessary
All residents and friends welcome.
We’d love to see you there!
24th & 25th July
10am-12pm
Fremantle House entrance
With Eduard Rice
Barcelona artist Eduard works very closely with communities to express their needs and highlight important issues, using a loose painterly style, full of energy and flow.
26th & 27th July
10am-2pm
Carolina House entrance
With Juno Frenzel
Juno is an illustrator and mural painter with a love for colourful and vibrant illustrations. Their work has a joyful childlike wonder, with happy people and animals dancing across the walls
4 dates coming up where Dove street residents are invited to paint along side artists!
You don’t need particular skills to join in – just enthusiasm!
We will supply aprons, but we recommend wearing old clothes.
The muralists will guide us through it. The designs are based on art created in community workshops.
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Meet The Artists!
We put out an open call for mural artists in April and got so many fantastic applications. It was very hard to make a selection, and we discussed and debated the artists many times, until we made our final choice.
The standard of all the artists who applied was fantastic, and we’re very excited to share the artists who will be working on their murals.
Dove Street will become an open-air art gallery this summer, filled with beautiful and vibrant art… we’re so thrilled!
Inkie
Tom “Inkie” Bingle is a local treasure who has been central to the development of the perception of Bristol as an artistic city. His work adorns many walls across different neighbourhoods and has helped to define the Bristol Style. His work can be seen on many walls across the world.
Hazard One
HazardOne is one of the Top female graffiti artists in the UK and internationally respected for her skillful, stylish and luminous artwork .
She recently came to national attention for her portrait honouring the 100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough.
Sepr
Bristol born and bred, Sepr is a prolific artist whose work can be seen in abundance all over the streets of Bristol and the UK. He has exhibited and painted all over the world, His strange dreamlike characters make you stop and wonder.
Silent Hobo
Silent Hobo is a busy and hard-working artist whose work can be seen across Bristol and the world. He recently completed an awe-inspiring, enormous piece for the Last Chance Saloon at the bottom of Ninetree Hill. His quirky characters and dreamy landscapes will bring smiles to Dove Street!
Marta Zubieta
Marta is a multitalented artist from Sevilla, Spain, who has lived in Bristol since 2015. Her art is highly influenced by 90s cartoons and pop culture, with some hints of dreamy psychedelia. Her disarmingly sweet colour palette hides mysterious stories.
Asmaa Jama
Asmaa is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist based in Bristol, whose work explores themes of myth and heritage. Asmaa is currently exhibiting at the inaugural National Somalia Pavilion at the 61st La Biennale Di Venezia, a huge artistic achievement.
Felix Braun
Felix has been a mainstay of Bristol’s graffiti and street art scene since the 80s. He is a passionate advocate for community and youth work, with years of experience working with schools and local residents. He has developed his own signature abstract style, which can be seen across the city.
Juno Frenzel
Juno Frenzel is a German illustrator and mural painter based in Bristol, with a love for colourful and vibrant illustrations. Their work has a joyful childlike wonder, with happy people and animals dancing across the walls.
Zase
Bristol-based Slovakian artist Zase is widely known for his large-scale, intricate nature-inspired murals, which are becoming iconic local landmarks across the city. We love his dreamlike landscapes and lively paintings of insects, birds and animals.
Dave Bain
Dave creates bold, energetic murals, with uplifting themes full of joyful characters in bright. flat colours. He has lots of experience working closely with communities and schools, and is very excited to work with Dove Street residents. We are very excited to work with him!
Sophie Higgins Wheeler
Sophie co-founded Graft with her partner Rob to work full-time creating beautiful murals with the community. Graft has years of experience working closely with schools and locals to inform their beautiful decorative designs.
Eduard Rice
Barcelona artist Eduard has been living and working in Bristol and London for several years. He works very closely with communities to express their needs and highlight important issues, using a loose painterly style, full of energy and flow.
Fowsachi
Fowsachi is a resident of Dove Street. His bold stylised work takes inspiration from 80’s action and sci-fi movies, rap music, video games and day-to-day experiences living life in the inner city. You can see an example of his mural work on the walls of Armada House.
Mike Stuart
Mike lives in Dove Street and is one of the co-founders of Dove Street Community Forum. His murals can be found by Carolina Park and at the top of the steps above Francis House, created in collaboration with Camille Libby and the residents. He is a firm believer in improving the area to benefit the whole community.
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Dove Street Community Festival – 6th and 7th June 2026 – 4-6pm
Exciting news about the Dove Street community murals project! After a fantastic response from Bristol’s artistic community, we now have 14 incredible Bristol mural artists signed up to paint murals on garage blocks and lower entrance ways of Armada, Fremantle and Carolina House!
Meanwhile, three creative sessions have taken place with lots of people of all ages attending to share their ideas, memories and hopes for the estate. This great work will be used to inspire the artists to design murals.
On Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th June 4-6pm, the mural artists are coming to meet residents and everyone is welcome to attend and be part of this. There will be an exhibition of art produced so far, more opportunities to get creative and share ideas with the artists, and lots of free pizza!
Find out more about Bristol Community Festival here: candobristol.co.uk/bristol-community-festival-2026
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How we created the Let Us Breathe mural
In March of last year, we painted the ‘Let us Breathe’ mural outside Fremantle House, bringing together dozens of residents and passersby. It started off with a group of us organising design sessions in Carolina House community room. We made drawings in response to prompts about climate change, nature, and community. Chatting about green spaces really highlighted their importance, and how keeping them safe, especially for children, is essential.
‘Let Us Breathe’ became the central idea, potentially referring to the problem of air pollution in Bristol, the desire for more freedom and autonomy, and the need for moments of calm. The left side focused on problems, showing the threat of extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change, that are a reality for many people in the world. Problems of litter and air pollution are also represented. The right side focused on nature and community, focusing on urban nature and depicting people planting trees together with the Dove Street tower blocks in the background. This grounded the design in the area, which was important for residents, as well as representing the multicultural community of Dove Street.
Mike and Camille worked together to produce the final mural design using ideas from the design sessions. Victoria worked hard to organise the community painting days, coordinating help from St Matthew’s Church and pizzas for the evening. Maddie offered face painting to excited kids on the first painting day.
The combination of this, the painting, food, and chats brought a bubbly and joyful community atmosphere. There were many stages of the process including getting permission, priming the wall, and tracing projections of the design with charcoal. After all this work, it really came together when people of all ages started painting the walls.
To celebrate the completion of the mural, we hosted a celebration event where we had drumming from Kabbo to lead up to the unveiling of the mural. It was amazing to celebrate what we had achieved. The Mayor of Bristol even made an appearance and we were interviewed by Bristol 24/7! People commented that the mural brightened up the area, that the painting days brought joy to their children, and that it was lovely seeing people gathered together talking to each other. What made it really special were the creative ideas that residents had, the enthusiasm and ambition from everyone, and the fact that we followed through even when challenges arose. We’re excited for more community events to continue, and for more walls to be brightened and green spaces to be enriched.
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Come and celebrate Dove Street with us!
Join us for a welcoming afternoon to celebrate our community.
We’ll share recent achievements, including the creation of the new Dove Street Community Forum, and the upcoming projects and developments in the area.There will be refreshments, hot drinks, nibbles, and cakes. You’re very welcome to bring and share food, or simply pop in, say hello, and enjoy the afternoon with neighbours. Everyone is welcome.
- Where: Fremantle Community Room
- When: Saturday 14th of February, 4 pm to 6 pm
- What: We’ll present the new Dove Street Community Forum and two upcoming exciting projects redesigning one of our local parks and creating new community murals.
