Early morning on Friday 14 July 2006, a jack-knifed lorry shed its load of 25,000 flowers onto the harbourside in Bristol. As the day wore on, passers-by began taking the flowers, until they were dispersed across the city.

As Bristol enters a period of significant regeneration, how can we collectively reimagine what the provision of public art looks like in the future? How can artists playfully disrupt and create thrilling new place-based work that is non-permanent and has deeper, more rich community engagement.

Cast your mind back to the cold, dark days of December. We filled an empty shop in Redcliffe with wonderful sounds, words and images that explored how Bristol is changing as part of a new residency called Confluence.

Culminating in a weekend programme of film, photography, live performance and installation 1-3 December, Confluence has been the collaborative effort of four fantastic artists, one of whom is Verity Standen. For the blog, we did a quick artist profile on Verity and spoke about her upcoming Confluence project There You Go, Lovely.

Culminating in a weekend programme of film, photography, live performance and installation 1-3 December, Confluence has been the collaborative effort of four fantastic artists, one of whom is Travis Alabanza.

Confluence has been the collaborative effort of four fantastic artists, one of whom is Ryan Convery-Moroney. For the blog, we did a quick artist profile on Ryan and discussed his upcoming project.

As part of Confluence’s weekend programme, multidisciplinary artist Asmaa Jama will be presenting A Song for the Slippages - a live performance exploring the idea of a hidden or parallel world and converging tales in the city. For MAYK’s blog, we did a quick artist profile with Asmaa discussing their project.

In geography, a confluence occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join to form a single channel. Bristol is a city of literal and metaphorical confluences. Each day our lives merge.

Bristol is a city which seems to be in a perpetual state of physical reinvention. Cranes dominate the skyline. We are constantly being asked to reassess our relationship to the topography of the city as new buildings spring up.

Four artists explore the ever-changing landscape of Bristol city centre in new residency programme, ‘Confluence’.