Bath Pig Spotter

Back Chasing Pigs

2008-06-24T07:23:00.006+01:00

Bath Chaps

(outside the Royal Cresent Hotel)

Artist: Paul Dabson

Bath Ladies

(outside 16 Royal Cresent)

Artist: Paul Dabson

The Pig of the West

(Walcot Street)

Artist: Paul Dabson

Paul

(Quiet Street)

Artist: Genna Pethers

Pig-eon

(Wood Street )

Artist: Candace Bahouth

Sunday 8th June Finds

2008-06-08T16:59:00.003+01:00

Pigissimo

(at the town end of Walcot St.)

Artist: Margaret Peckham & Claudia Phipps

Cowpig

(Inside Victoria Park, along side Park Lane)

Artist: Radstock Youth Centre

Outside of the Holborne Museum

2008-06-07T17:13:00.005+01:00

Suidae Sulis

(outside at the front of the Holborne Museum)

Artist: Emily Cant

Happy Pig

(outside at the front of the Holborne Museum)

Artist: Sophie Howard

Saturday Morning Pigs and Poetry

2008-06-07T06:26:00.008+01:00

Heidi the Hippie Pig

(Kingsmead Square in place of Globe Trotter)

Artist: Peasedown Youth Centre

Entry from Issy-

Dear people i am going to write a poem about pigs for you.

PIGS
pigs pigs
wonderful pigs
lovely wonderful
pigs
pigs pigs
happy pigs
pigs.

Flying Kings and Pigs

2008-06-06T12:15:00.006+01:00

King Bladud

On a quick look around for more on King Bladud, an interesting myth arises. It seems one story about Bladud is that he came to a sticky end after constructing wings for himself and trying to fly to the temple of Apollo in London. Poor man apparently crashed into the walls and died. I wonder if this has anything to do with the origin of the 'Pigs can/might fly' saying?

For more info on Bladud you can click on the links below-

Bladud Legend on the King Bladud's Pigs Site

Bladud on Wikipedia

One other story is that is the Bladud was King Lear's father.

Piglit by Night

2008-06-05T22:19:00.008+01:00

Piglit by Ken Grix

Really impressed at how really beautiful Piglit looks at night.

Jigsaw found in Workshop

2008-06-03T20:42:00.009+01:00

white pigs

pigs in progress

Jigsaw

(Jigsaw in workshop)

Artists: Children visiting the workshop (one child per jigsaw piece)

Piguana Spotted on Gay Street

2008-06-03T18:23:00.004+01:00

Piguana

(at the bottom of Gay St. opposite Queens Square)

Artist: John Bendon

Pig Story on the BBC

2008-06-03T07:43:00.005+01:00

Click on the image above to go to the BBC news story on the Pigs. It was from a month or so ago but is still very much of interest (of course!).

This raises the issue of where to find other pigs that are not on the street. After a quick trawl around, there seem to be a number of porcine creations that may be a little harder to spot. These include-

The Bath Rugby Pig
Princess Primavera by Kaffe Fassett

and the 2 pigs that appear in the video above-

The Jigsaw Pig
Pigasus

and which was the poor pig pulled from the canal?

We must track these pigs down!

On a sadder note, I understand that several pigs have suffered attack by the mean of spirit. There is a youtube video of the rescue of a pig from the canal. I think this might relate to such an event. Why would people deface, damage, or chuck a piece of art in a canal? Surely they must question themselves while being so destructive? Beats me! People are going out of their way to bring interest and fun to the city and it can only be the very small minded that feel they are able to deface or damage works of art.

UPDATE

The pig that was rescued from the canal was the result of an accident, and is the pig that Peter Wells is working on. The pig was being transported on a bicycle trailer along the towpath and must serve as a warning to all towing pigs by waterways. The one upside is that it was not an act of vandalism.

Weekend Of Pigs

2008-06-02T08:47:00.007+01:00

My daughter Issy(6) and myself set out to spot as many as possible of the King Bladud's Pigs, this last weekend. After printing the list from the website we set off with a camera and wandered the highways and byways of Bath. Below are the pigs we found and hopefully the notes below each one are correct.

I will try to keep the list updated as new pigs arrive. Given there are so many of them it will take a little while to get everything up to speed and correctly labelled... I'll also take a few pictures again as Issy is not happy with the quality of all the shots.

Abi

(to the right of the abbey main entrance when looking from the front BA1 1LY)

Artist: Annette Smith

Barking Mad Pig

(on the green behind the Royal Cresent)

Artist: Mark Lovegrove

Bath Pig

(Inside the Roman Baths, but can be viewed from the resturant. Bath residents can get in free to the baths and other museums with a DISCOVERY CARD available from the council)

Artist: Francis Mosley

Bubbles

(sited outside the front entrance of the new baths in Hot Bath Street)

Artist: Rachel Wilcox

Cochon de Rue

(on Moorland Road. This is outside of the city centre and if walking may take 20 minutes to reach)

Artist: Richard Burel

Cosmo

(bottom corner of Queen's Square)

Artist: Naomi Selman

Dinopig

(just above the children's playpark in Victoria Park)

Artist: Simon Smith

Globe Trotter

(bottom of Kingsmead Square)

Artist: Sonia Fellows

Golden Lily

(above the door of the framing shop in Walcot Street)

Artist: Anna Gillespie

Grimaldi

(In tree in Queen's Square)

Artist: Simon Smith

Hogsnort

(opposite the fountain in Walcot Street)

Artist: Bronwyn Williams-Ellis

Panoramic Pig

(Along St. Margaret's Buildings)

Artist: Al Greenall

Pig Headed

(inside and near the back of the Podium shopping centre)

Artist: Hayesfield School

Pig in Clover

(outside the entrance to the Assembly Rooms)

Artist: Helen Nock

Pig in Prada

(Above the door of house leading away from The Circus)

Artist: Brandon Mably

Pig Leaf

(Outside the front of Greenpark Station (Sainsburys))

Artist: Felicity Roma Bowers

Pig Noir

(Outside The Little Theatre Cinema)

Artist: Charlotte Moore

Pig of Paradise

(Abbey Green - in tree)

Artist: Irma Marks

Pigasso

(At the bottom of Milsom St)

Artist: Susan Hunter Jones

Piggery

(Royal Avenue north side by Gravel Walk)

Artist: Teresa Foster

Piggles

(In the Shires Yard between Milsom St. and Broad St.)

Artist: Cherry Beath

Piglit

(This is way out of town... Bath Brewery, Toll Bridge Road)

Artist: Ken Grix

Pignacious

(St Michael's Church Broad St)

Artists: Belinda, Harriet & Philip Bouchard

Pigs will Fly

(Queen Square)

Artist: Jo Russell

Prince Ropork

(The Circus)

Artist: Kate Rattray

Roger

(Laura Place, by the fountain on Great Pulney St.)

Artist: Josh Wiley

Serrano

(The London bound platform at Bath Spa Station)

Artist: Beechen Cliff School

Spring Pig

(Kingsmead Square)

Artist: Paul Draper / Steve Edwards

The No.1 Pig

(Outside betting shop on Lansdown Road)

Artist: Patricia Volk

Top Pig

(The Circus)

Artist: King Edwards School

Velocity Pig

(On the green behind the Royal Cresent)

Artist: Bodywork Ltd

Vidar the Forest Warrior

(outside the framing shop on Walcot St.)

Artist: Bronwyn Williams-Ellis

Walterloo

(Next to the Rebecca Fountain by the abbey)

Artist: Natasha Rampley

Widcombe Warbler

(Widcombe Parade)

Artist: Corrie Schrijver

Unknown Pig (to be attributed)

(on the grass area between the old Empire Hotel and the abbey)

Artist: TBC