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Art 2030′ – The Eastern Road Bollard Art Project

Friday, March 12th, 2010. Published in Architecture & The City, Art, Craft & Design by

One of Southseas most prolific artists Mydogsighs has another fantastic project on the go. Known for always thinking outside the box and being an all round nice guy, mydog always has something up his sleeve. I love this idea.

“OK. So I drove home from work on this road ( the Eastern Road Portsmouth A2030) every day and it is always gnarled up. 10-15 mins everyday I sit stuck in traffic looking a a row of about 150 wooden bollards stood along the road. they must get tens of thousands of slow moving cars crawling past them everyday. the ultimate canvas!!!! They aren’t big. 3-4inches wide and ranging in height from 10-20 inches. They are of course exposed to the weather.

So, here’s my plan. you lot make some art on something waterproof. I’m thinking flattened cans, bits of wood, sheets of metal. – whatever you can get hold of, and I take them down and nail/screw them into place as a pretty long term art exhibition, take shed loads of pics, maybe get the PCM involved and offer passengers of the traffic jam wine and nibbles a’ la opening night!! This is a chance to get seriously high profile with your work!!! Keep it small, make it tough!

I’m happy to accept as many entries as you want to get to me and promise to get them all out. If you’re interested. Email me and I’ll sort out a postal address for you to send work.”

You can contact Mydogsighs at mydogsighs@hotmail.co.uk and join the Flickr Group HERE.

I ride this route pretty much daily on my commute from Southsea to Havant and would love to see this happen. Hopefully I’ll be able to get something done for the project as well.

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6 Comments to Art 2030′ – The Eastern Road Bollard Art Project

  1. Such a good idea

    Paul on March 12th, 2010

  2. Looks awesome, i love what PCM did by sainsburys commercial road. Its these little arty things that make me glad to live in portsmouth and know about this blog :)

    tom on March 13th, 2010

  3. Great idea – just dont yarnbomb it though, cos that really is rubbish.

    Colin Sidup on March 13th, 2010

  4. great work!

    stu barker on March 15th, 2010

  5. cheers for the heads up tristan!

    yes everyone, get involved!!!!

    mydogsighs on March 15th, 2010

  6. Brilliant!Thanks for the smiles during the miles!

    Oz on May 10th, 2010

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PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

Friday, January 27th, 2012. Published in Art, Craft & Design, Features, Photography by

We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:

- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.

- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.

- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!

- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.

- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.

Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.

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It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Friday, October 28th, 2011. Published in Community, Features, Local Events by

Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.

You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.

Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Poster: Tristan Savage

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