Ralph Hoyte

Bristol-based poet and text-based artist Ralph Hoyte created an exciting text-based work that captured and celebrated Bristol and the development of Cabot Circus. This major artwork, on the hoardings around the Quakers Friars area of the site, is one of the longest, site specific, text-based pieces in the country. The project, ‘Past-Present…Fuschia’, intends to engage with the communities around Quakers Friars, its past and present history, and personal artistic concerns. Ralph has also created a series of five text-based pieces depicting his interpretation of the name ‘Cabot’, which coincided with the announcement of the new name for the development. Other recent or ongoing work includes ‘TALK TO ME’, three large-scale (5m x 4m) permanent text-based wall mounted works as part of the fabric of the new Bristol Metropolitan College; a collaboration with Michael Fairfax on a collection of eight metre high glass archways with embedded text and word inserts into paving as part of environmental improvements in Heavitree, Exeter; and a commission to design ‘THE GARDEN OF THE FOUR JEWELS’ in St Paul’s Bristol with Scott Farlow. Ralph Hoyte is also intensively developing new material inspired as a result of an arts council-funded professional development trip to Japan, following in the footsteps of the 17th century Haiku Master, Matsuo Basho (previewed at Tate Modern 2005), the first fruit of which is a book ‘HANA NO KAGE/SHADOW OF A FLOWER’. Previous work includes: poet-in-residence for the Bristol Capital of Culture 2008 bid; launch poet for Legible City Bristol (where he and Colin Pearce created ‘WALKIETALKIE’, a 600m long 'city epic' literally glued to the fabric of the city in the form of a long leyline of text); creator of ‘1831 RIOT!’, the world's first located voice-play for mobile phone technology in an intelligent environment based on the Queen Square Reform Riots of 1831; and writer-in-residence for English Heritage at Tintagel Island, North Cornwall.

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InSite Arts projects

Cabot Circus, Bristol

Artists: Neville Gabie, Nayan Kulkarni, Susanna Heron, Timorous Beasties, Vong Phaophanit & Claire Oboussier, Esther Rolinson, Ralph Hoyte, Claire Morgan, Blackout Arts

At the heart of Cabot Circus is an ambitious and innovative series of site-specific public art works, the result of one of the largest and most diverse public art programmes of its kind in Europe.

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Cabot Circus temporary programme

Artists: Ralph Hoyte, Claire Morgan, Blackout Arts

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Images

Past Present Fuschia - Cabot Circus, Bristol (Bristol Alliance)

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