katie shipley - stoke-on-trent

Katie May Shipley's beauty spots - the allotments on the corner of Wellesley Street and College Road.

A beautiful patch of daisies: you know it's summer when...
The church at the end of College Road.
These photographs have a really lovely saturated quality - like photographs from the 70's. Thanks for those Katie.

michael callan - stoke-on-trent 3

Michael Callan has been out and about in the sun he says 'I hiked over to Bedford Lock, in Shelton on the Cauldon Canal. It was a really hot day. I could remember a piece of very witty graffiti on a nearby wall from a year or so ago. As I got there the City Works' truck was just pulling away having finished pointing the wall and scraping it clean!
Rather than waste the trip I took these.'

nic hilditch - manchester

Nic Hilditch's images represent the 'There is Beauty in the City' magnets first project outside of Stoke-on-Trent - yes, we have travelled to Manchester!
Nic provides us with some of her favourite spots around Manchester - how exciting!

kate lynch - stoke-on-trent

Kate Lynch has sent in four images of the Campbell road allotments which she describes as definitely her favourite place in the city. She says
'The images show the contrast between the urban environment and the allotment plot, for example the use of plastic orange roadwork mesh to support runner beans!'

michael callan - stoke-on-trent 2

The one above shows the green fist grafitti, which can be seen from the canal - and also when taking the train into Stoke from the West.
This one is the toddlers' play area in Hanley Park which Michael says of this one 'I liked this because the water motif on the fence reminded me that when I was a toddler in the early sixties this area was a paddling pool.'
The above (Steel Arch) and below (Steel Graffiti) images are taken of the sculpture outside of the Kings hall in Stoke, by Artist Liz Lemon.

'Sweet Knives' was found on the railway bridge that goes over where the Green fist is.
'The narrow straight alley at the rear of Twyfords running from the canal towpath near the Etruria Industrial Museum to Garner Street. The end is hidden behind trees so not many know it's there.'
And 'Buds of May.'
Above is 'Twyford's Back Alley, and below is 'White Star - Stoke' which was taken on the day the pub opened, Kingsway Stoke (formerly The Gordon.)

andrew branscombe - stoke-on-trent

Andrew Branscombe - the other half of the AirSpace gallery team has been out and about in Hanley finding his chosen beauty spots. This one looks like the staircase to the new sun terrace at the Sugarmill.
Above - an alleyway in Hanley and below a very unusual doorway.

Above - another alleyway and below - an advert for the Circus of horrors!

The cannon above looks like it could be one of the brass ornaments in hanley's best pub for a real ale - The Unicorn!
And finally Andy catches some ladies outside the gallery on a Saturday night.

dave bethell - stoke-on-trent

AirSpace Director Dave Bethell has been out and about, armed with his mobile phone and one of the Beauty in the City Magnets, here are his Beauty spots:This one is the Bethesda Chapel Garden, which has recently been renovated, and is now a great community space. Dave says this reminds him of the Longhouse professional artist's development programme he went on during November, 2007. This was a brilliant opportunity involving 11 artists visiting Stoke-on-Trent with a view to coming up with proposals for art which responds to the public realm spaces of the city - the artists proposals can be seen via the Longhouse website, and the publication to document the event will be launched at AirSpace on May 16th.



The three images above were taken at the Victoria Hall on Wednesday, 30th April - during the One City event. This involved some great community engagements, as well as a chance to watch video art by some fantastic local and international artists. Dave has found parts of the hall which he feels are beautiful and then you can see Colin from Axis Festival, and Katie May Shipley and Andrew Branscombe from AirSpace.

This is Dave's girlfriends posterior. Good work Dave - good idea to use your mobile phone!

anna francis - stoke-on-trent : Lost Ted

This Lost teddy was spotted on Clough Street, which is now a demolition zone as part of Stoke-on-Trent's regeneration programme.

lester kong - stoke-on-trent 2

Lester Kong has sent us some more photographs of his beauty spots in Stoke-on-Trent.First He has given us his magnet attached to the Oatie Mostons sign. He must really love Staffordshire oatcakes! Yummy!

Here Lester has attached the magnet to a shoe advert - so he must really like yellow wellies. He must have used some blu tak - magnets don't stick to plastic! That's another good idea.

And here Lester has superimposed the magnet onto a picture of the demolition going on around the Clough Street area of Hanley. Thanks Lester - keep 'em coming in!

lester kong - stoke-on-trent 1

This is Lester Kong's beauty spot - a nightclub sign in Hanley, or maybe he just means Stoke-on-Trent in general?

michael callan - stoke-on-trent 1

So we are really pleased to announce that the first sets of photos are now in.
Michael Callan - poet from City Voices has been out and about with his magnet, and has come up with an ingenious way of using it - he has attached it to a paintbrush and can then put it in front of his chosen beauty spot and snap away - this means he doesn't have to rely on finding a magnetic surface!This first set is the view East and North East from Hartshill Park - click on the image for a closer view.

This one you may recognise as the A500.

And this set of three show the Canalsides of Stoke.
Michael took these photographs with a 'throwaway camera.' showing that you don't even need to be digital to join the project. Looking forward to seing the 'Green Fist' photograph that Michael will be adding later.

Magnets In Situ

Magnet attached to lock near the Etruria Industrial Museum

Magnet In-situ on Festival park sign post trail which runs along canal in Stoke-on-Trent.

Magnet balanced on catkins on canalside - between Festival Park and Burslem.