Bar plans for exhibition featuring Banksy canned after objections
By Adam Postans, Wednesday May 12, 2021
Plans to sell booze at an M Shed exhibition featuring works by Banksy and other street-art pioneers have been scrapped after residents and nearby businesses objected.
Organisers applied for a premises licence for the summer event at Vanguard Art Bar, which will celebrate the city’s role in British graffiti culture.
But following objections from neighbours, drinking establishments in Cargo and The Matthew of Bristol Trust, it was abandoned.
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Vanguard solicitor Piers Warne told councillors the application for a bar at the exhibition, which will display works not previously seen and some not shown in public for more than 20 years, including by artists Henry Chalfant, Beezer and 3D, was being withdrawn “gracefully” because of the concerns.