Local memories, artefacts and photographs as well as a BDFI report, ‘Avon Street Gasworks and Bristol Gas Industry’ informed the work. Ravenscroft in his handbook Town Gardening (1883).”21”Īvon Street Gasworks and Bristol’s Gas Industry A Bristolian history of innovation with lessons for our digital future En febrero de 2020, el hijo de la princesa Ana y su mujer, Peter y Autumn Phillips, anunciaron sus planes de divorcio, después de 12 años de matrimonio. “The fumes, or products of combustion, of coal-gas have a more injurious effect upon plant-life than anything else,” wrote B.
Gas was associated with air pollution which posed a constant threat to horticultural activities. “It was recommended by some horticultural experts to give plants the protection of a Wardian case (used for transporting plants from across the globe) if there was a gaslight in the room. It inspired the artwork through the history of the gas works researched by Dr James Watts who writes: ASCOT, ENGLAND - JUNE 22: Peter Phillips. The Wardian Case represents innovation and all the wondrous possibilities and harmful impacts it can bring. Queen Elizabeth’s eldest grandson, Peter Phillips, and his wife Autumn have decided to divorce, a spokesman for the couple has revealed in a statement. The artwork invites reflection on the past, present and future of innovation in Bristol through the symbol of a Wardian Case, a terrarium-like wooden crate used for transporting plants in protected environments across the British Empire during the 1800s.
Fear of the new, of change and hidden or unseen implications have always gone hand in hand with socio-technical innovation. The artwork explores the relationship between innovation and societal change prompted by the history of the gas works. The sculpture was fabricated by Jack Stiling of Stiling’s Workshop. The work was commissioned by the University of Bristol’s Bristol Digital Futures Institute for permanent display in the new innovation hub housed in the Victorian Gas Works on Avon Street. Injurious Effect, a public artwork by Bristol-based artist Ellie Shipman has been unveiled.
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