The Cycle Festival Headquarters on College Green

Flower bike by Cap’n Bikebeard

One of Tim Floyd bike ghost sculptures

Jet and Jen arrive with with their instruments and amps by bike, of course.

Sylvie and Kevin setup the bike powered generator.

Ryan’s lovely bike library

My ‘bunted’ BSA shopper under Cap’n Bikebeard’s decorated cycle wheels and artwork from the Papergirl project.

Tim Wheatley’s Cyclotrope.

Photos by the Pinhole Pedallers

Jet fires up the Casio keyboard

Jet and Jen perform music composed during their year long cycle tour from Bristol to india.

Jen uses found objects – jars and coins – to make music

Another of Tim’s bike ghost sculptures

The bike library gets popular

More of my portraits on display in the projection room with bike powered music

Films of Tim Wheatley’s Cyclotrope were also shown

The Boneshaker tallbike looks small in context with the extra tallbike

And the evening wouldn’t be complete without some penny riding in the park

It was a great launch. Many thanks to everyone involved – especially Ruth, Sylvie, Kevin, Jet and Jen and all the other exhibitors and organisers!

Yesterday, I installed 10 prints from the Bristol series of Bike Portraits in the Showroom on College Green. The rest of the series will be shown via a pedal powered projector on the launch night.

I will be sharing the Festival Showroom with bike ghost sculptures by Tim Floyd, cyclotrope by Tim Wheatley, boneshaker prints and artwork from the papergirl project. There will also be a bicycle library and place to sit and read… exciting!

The launch is on friday 16th from 6.30pm.

I’m very pleased to be invited to be part of the upcoming Bristol Bike Festival -‘a festival that celebrates the wonderfulness of bikes made by the people for the people of Bristol’.

I’ll be showing some of the Bristol Bike Portraits I took during my fieldwork this year. This will be the second exhibition of Bike Portraits – the first was in Hackney last month in five bike shops and cafes throughout the borough. The event was launched the event with a Private View Bike Ride. More here.

This time, a selection of printed portraits will be displayed in the main Festival HQ – The Showroom (old co-op shop) College Green. I am hoping to project more of the images via a bike powered projector (as per the rough sketch below). I am also very excited to announce that Jet McDonald who recently returned from a year long cycle tour from Bristol to India and who features with Jen in one of my portraits.

The exhibition opens on Wednesday 14th September and runs until 25th September.
The launch is 6pm Friday 16th September.