Tagged: bristol-savages
A Longer-than-it-looks Walk With Lisa
06 Jun 2021
The track on the map doesn't tell the whole story of this walk with Lisa around and about Clifton, Berkeley Square, Brandon Hill and the harbourside, because the batteries on my GPS ran out while we were on the roof of Trenchard Street car park, it seems. Oh well. I think I did most of the area I was interested in finishing off around the University; there were only a few new bits around Brandon Hill that won't be on the track, and I can easily do them again.
Still, technology woes aside it was a nice walk, albeit a bit warm for climbing all those hills, and sat on the harbourside watching the world go by for a while, too. It was good to see the Bristol Ferry Boats carrying people around again, especially.
The "wigwam" is actually a structure along the lines of a Gloucestershire tithe barn.
The building I was interested in is the one with those skylights. It's the "wigwam" of an artists' collective that was until quite recently called the Bristol Savages and used native American imagery quite strongly in its branding, and also didn't let women in, apparently.
They were somewhat roasted for this behaviour and have now emerged as Bristol 1904 Arts instead.
I have no tomahawk to grind here; I was merely interested in a former member, Donald Hughes, who painted some interesting scenes of Bristol and whom I believe may have been a member of the Stella Matutina, a long-defunct secret society I'm interested in. (It's a long story.)