The organisers of this summer’s Unicornfest trail have explained why it has missed out almost all of South Bristol. They said the location choices were chosen by the sponsors of each painted sculpture, but local councillors in South Bristol said it was ‘a shame’.
The Unicornfest trail got under way this week, with 60 individually-painted unicorn sculptures spread around the city and beyond - some as far afield as Weston-super-Mare and Cheddar. Within Bristol, the vast majority are in and around the city centre, and into north and eastern areas of the city.
But south of the river, the sculpture trail only goes as far as North Street in Southville. There are four sculpture locations south of the river - two on North Street, one at Ashton Gate Stadium, and another at the start of East Street in Bedminster. There are no sculptures in the city any further south than North Street, with Totterdown, Brislington, Knowle, Hengrove, Whitchurch, Hartcliffe, Withywood, Bishopsworth, Bedminster Down and Ashton Vale missing out.
