Project Type: Event Artwork
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Art House at Ashridge House
Upfest headed to the heart of Hertfordshire in 2024 bringing 20 artists for a live painting event in the Grade II listed gardens of former royal residence Ashridge House. The open air exhibition stayed up for a month with thousands of visitors in attendance. Drawing inspiration from Ashridge House’s rich history and stunning location, the…
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650 Paint Jam
Along with the hop scotch 650 celebrations, Upfest set to the derelict shop fronts of the Clifton Triangle and presented a paint jam in a ‘renaissance style’ to celebrate 650 years of Bristol. Each artist was tasked to paint with paint brushes to reflect the painting style of the time 650 years ago. Artists invited…
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Bristol Zoo Project
For Bristol Zoo Project’s Easter activity program ‘Springfest’, Bristol Zoo got Upfest on board to present an art trail in their Tower Meadow. With the trail mown into the long grass visitors could feel immersed in the meadow and drawn onwards to explore the space. Visitors to the trail got to discover a series of…
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Nass Main Stage Live
Alongside our painting of ramps, festival artwork and live painting at Nass festival 2019 we proposed integrating live art onto the main stage programming. This saw us stacking 7, 20ft shipping containers either side of the main stage to create a canvas for the amazing duo PichiAvo. The live painting took part accross the weekend,…
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Subway
Thanks to Arts Council England, we received funding in 2012 through the Grants for the Arts scheme, the money we received was fully utilised in building a full size replica New York Subway carriage by our own production crew for the festival. The subway carriage has been painted and repainted at a number of events.
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Volksfest
Upfest were invited to particpate in one of the largest UK VW festivals, taking over a large refurbished cow shed, the artists provided entertainment for the visotors across the festival weekend.
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Nass
Upfest have been working alongside Nass Festival creative team since 2016. Together we present some of the best names in the game showcasing their styles across ramps, rails, vehicles and walls.
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Bristol Harbour Festival
Joining in all the fun at the harbourside festival by bringing a little bit of street art to the harbour. The Upfest subway train was brought out of it’s home South of the river to be the canvas for some amazing artists.
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See No Evil
Promoted as the creation of Europe’s largest outdoor gallery, Nelson Street, one of Bristol city centre’s busiest through roads, was transformed with colour in 2011 and again in 2012. The Upfest production crew worked on behalf of the See No Evil management team, scheduling artists from around the world, working 24hrs a day for 10…
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Tattoo Convention
This year brought The Bristol Tattoo Convention to South Bristol, we had the pleasure of being invited to take part and brought a live illustration area to their event. Alongside the invited Illustrators and artists we had a posca doodle area with an awesome Andy Council DIno to colour in.