Entries by amelia unity

If you go down in the woods today

It was a real treat to spend a day in the woods with my good friend and co-conspirator Rufus Mufasa. We’ve begun lots of chats about developing our combined practice, but life always cuts them short. We walked and talked, sat and talked, listened and observed, absorbed and explored. An abandoned building with potential to […]

September 14, 2017 by

Finally!!

After a long and drawn out process, Cardiff Council has seen sense and will be returning the Millenium Walkway Hall of Fame to Cardiff’s graffiti artists. This hoo-ha began back in March when I set up a petition to stop one of Cardiff’s only legal walls being sold off for advertising: 1,178 people signed the […]

July 28, 2017 /4 Comments/by

The Great Big Walk video diary

From 10th June for 9 days, I walked and talked to community projects from Llanwrtyd Wells to Penarth. I met such inspiring people, and have come through it feeling invigorated. I kept a video diary each day… On the last day a lovely chap from Melbourne, Courtney, followed us about with his fancy-pants camera: Find […]

June 27, 2017 by

Fleurs and Tears on the Great Big Walk

The Great Big Walk was inspired by the Great Get Together, organised by Jo Cox’s family. Jo’s life was taken last year, and her statement that we have far more in common than divides us stayed with me the whole time I was talking to all the amazing people we met on this walk. There […]

June 23, 2017 by

These boots were made for walking…

A while ago I attended an Arts Council Wales training session, where I met an artist called Richard. He told me of a project he was about to start which involved walking from Yorkshire to Wales. This is the kind of project that I always fancy doing, but never do because I need to look […]

June 7, 2017 by

Dydd Dylan…

To celebrate the life, work & legacy of Dylan Thomas I organised a paint jam next to Cardiff Castle, on boards that had been put up to protect the trees from UEFA happenings… Cardiff Council very generously paid for our paint – a Welsh flag colour theme seemed appropriate, and I asked wordsmith Rufus Mufasa […]

May 15, 2017 by

I love Cardiff Council…

This morning I muscled my way in on a site meeting between Cardiff Coucil, Welsh Government and the contractor who looks after Callaghan Square. In a nutshell, they’re happy with the first pieces by myself (unity), Resh and Oner, and will be building us a wall along the ‘West Side’… The new wall will follow […]

April 27, 2017 by

No News = Good News?

I don’t have much to report on the Millenium Walkway Graffiti Hall of Fame, other than I’m hard on the case of the Council Officers who have promised to provide us with a suitable alternative before the advertising goes up. They are working to come up with an interim between the walkway and a new […]

April 7, 2017 /1 Comment/by

Whistle-stop tour…

A lovely man called Paul, who spends his days in Cardiff City Centre on a little buggy, ferrying less mobile folks to and from the shops, sorting out the bollards and such like, gave me a tour of the city this morning. The aim was to find suitable locations for a temporary wall in place […]

March 22, 2017 by