Owl (Pink Wisdom) mural by Tech Moon, Clift House Road, Bristol, England
Owl
Tech Moon · “Owl”, also posted as “Pink Wisdom”, painted mural for Upfest, 2022 · Clift House Road, looking out over Coronation Road, Bristol
Photo: Paul Zappa, as published by Street Art Utopia
A magenta owl stares out of a gable wall on Clift House Road in south Bristol, looking out over Coronation Road, half hidden behind grey baroque scrolls, with a billboard sharing the same wall. Bournemouth-based artist Tech Moon painted it for Upfest 2022; Art UK catalogues it simply as “Owl”, while Street Art Utopia first posted it as “Pink Wisdom”. Art UK estimates the mural at about 7 by 8 metres and lists the mural as extant, but gives no date for that. The newest photo with a recorded date was taken on 3 July 2022.
4 things to know
- Painted for Upfest 2022Inspiring City’s round-up of the 2022 festival, published 29 May 2022: “Bournemouth based Tech Moon’s Owl is the latest piece to look out over Coronation Road.” Art UK dates the mural c.2022 and records it as “created for Bristol Upfest and associated events”. Inspiring City, 2022 · Art UK
- Owl or Pink Wisdom?Art UK catalogues the work as “Owl”, and Inspiring City calls it “Tech Moon’s Owl”. Street Art Utopia posted it in June 2022 as “Pink Wisdom”, and a Flickr photo from July 2022 repeats that name, repeating the Street Art Utopia headline almost word for word. We could not see the artist’s own post to settle it. Art UK · Inspiring City · Flickr, Elliott Brown
- About 7 by 8 metres, and it shares the wallArt UK gives estimated measurements of “H 700 x W 800 cm (E)” and describes “a mural with a large owl on a pink, heavily scrolled background”. A commercial billboard sits on the left half of the same gable, and the scrolls run around it in every photo we found. Art UK · Inspiring City · Flickr
- An artist with an owl habitA January 2022 profile in Bournemouth University’s Buzz says Tech Moon has a “big affinity” for animals, and adds: “The 50ft high street art owl in Boscombe is one of his proudest works of art”. Street Art Cities lists that Boscombe owl separately, on Ashley Road in Bournemouth. Buzz, 2022 · Street Art Cities
Check-in guide
- 📍
- On the gable wall of a building on Clift House Road, Bristol BS3 1RT, facing Coronation Road (Art UK, Inspiring City).
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- Look for the big magenta owl’s head on the right of the wall and a billboard on the left; a Clift House Rd street sign stands on the grass in front in Art UK’s photo (Art UK).
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- The Maps button searches for the street and postcode Art UK gives, not exact coordinates. Art UK lists access as “at all times”.
Sightings
- 202229 May
Inspiring City Upfest report
- 20223 Jul
Flickr photo
Every stamp links to the dated source. The green stamp is Elliott Brown’s Flickr photo of the wall on Clift House Road, taken from a car, with the camera date 3 July 2022. The amber stamp is Inspiring City’s Upfest 2022 round-up, published 29 May 2022 with a photo of the finished owl. Art UK lists the mural as “extant” and has nine photos of it by Paul Francis, but gives no date for the record or the photos. Their billboard advertises Sky’s series Sweetpea as “Coming October” beside Netflix’s Bridgerton, and Sweetpea premiered on 10 October 2024 (Wikipedia), so the photos were most likely taken in autumn 2024; because Art UK records no date, we do not count them as a dated sighting. Inspiring City’s Upfest 2024 round-up mentions only one new mural on Coronation Road that year, by Jagung, on a different building. We found no photo of the owl with a recorded date after July 2022.
On the record
Murals of Bristol’s 2022 Upfest Street Art Festival
“Using a bold magenta colour the Owl is looking out through what appears to be the interior mouldings of an old house.”
The street art blog’s walk through the 2022 festival walls places Tech Moon’s owl on Coronation Road, near the festival’s main space in Greville Smyth Park.
Owl · Tech Moon (b.1985)
“A mural with a large owl on a pink, heavily scrolled background.”
The national art catalogue’s entry BS3_PF_S1079: c.2022, paint, about 7 by 8 metres, created for Bristol Upfest, work status extant. Photos by Paul Francis.
Bristol Street Art – Pink Wisdom on Clift House Road
“Getting confused by the SatNav taking us towards Portway Park & Ride in Bristol […] Saw this street art.”
A photographer from Birmingham caught the owl from the road by chance and captioned it with the Street Art Utopia title.
The facts
- Artist
- Tech Moon, born 1985 according to Art UK, based in Bournemouth (Art UK, Inspiring City, Buzz) Checked. Also known as Krishna Malla, according to Bournemouth University’s Buzz (Buzz) Reported
- Title
- “Owl” (Art UK, Inspiring City) or “Pink Wisdom” (Street Art Utopia, 28 June 2022, repeated on Flickr) Conflicting. We lean towards “Owl”: it is the catalogue title and the name used in the festival report, while every “Pink Wisdom” we found traces back to the Street Art Utopia post.
- Made
- 2022, for Upfest (Inspiring City, Art UK) Checked. Finished by 29 May 2022, when Inspiring City published it as “the latest piece” on Coronation Road (Inspiring City) Checked. The exact painting dates are Unconfirmed
- Festival
- Upfest, Bristol’s street art festival; Art UK’s acquisition note reads “created for Bristol Upfest and associated events” (Art UK, Inspiring City) Checked
- Medium
- Paint on a building’s gable wall (Art UK) Checked. About 7 m high and 8 m wide, an estimate (Art UK) Reported
- Place
- Clift House Road, Bristol BS3 1RT (Art UK, Flickr) Checked. Inspiring City lists it under Coronation Road, which the owl looks out over (Inspiring City) Checked
- Design
- A magenta owl looking out between grey baroque scrolls, signed “Tech Moon” below the owl; Inspiring City reads the scrolls as “the interior mouldings of an old house” (Inspiring City, Art UK) Checked
- Our photo
- The photo above, by Paul Zappa, shows the same owl, scrolls and signature as the dated photos (Flickr, July 2022, Inspiring City, May 2022) Checked. It is a close crop without the billboard, and the grass and the visitor are shown in black and white. Street Art Utopia first published it on 28 June 2022.
- Status
- Seen July 2022: Flickr photo with the camera date 3 July 2022 (Flickr, Elliott Brown) Checked. Art UK lists the work status as “extant”, without a date; its photos show a billboard for Sky’s Sweetpea, which premiered in October 2024 (Wikipedia), so they were most likely taken in autumn 2024 (Art UK) Reported. Whether it is still there today is Unconfirmed
Related
- On Street Art Utopia: The Easiest Birdwatching You’ll Ever Do (12 Photos) (11 October 2026), where this owl appears as work no. 10, and the first post about it, “Pink Wisdom” by Tech Moon at UPFEST in Bristol, UK (28 June 2022).
- Tech Moon’s other catalogued murals, from Bournemouth to Southend-on-Sea. Art UK · Street Art Cities
- The rest of the 2022 Upfest walls, street by street. Inspiring City
All sources (9)
This work
- Art UK: “Owl”, Tech Moon (b.1985), c.2022, paint, H 700 x W 800 cm (E), accession number BS3_PF_S1079, created for Bristol Upfest and associated events, work status extant, Clift House Road, Bristol BS3 1RT. Image credit Paul Francis / Art UK.
- Inspiring City: “Murals of Bristol’s 2022 Upfest Street Art Festival”, 29 May 2022. “Bournemouth based Tech Moon’s Owl is the latest piece to look out over Coronation Road.”
Dated photos
- Flickr: “Bristol Street Art – Pink Wisdom on Clift House Road”, Elliott Brown, taken 3 July 2022.
Context
- Buzz (Bournemouth University): “The artist taking over Bournemouth’s street art scene”, Clare Stephenson, January 2022. Krishna Malla, Bournemouth based, the 50ft Boscombe owl.
- Street Art Cities: “Owl” by Tech Moon, 10 Ashley Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth. His other large owl.
- Street Art Cities: Tech Moon, artist page listing his mapped murals.
- Inspiring City: “Upfest Presents 2024: All the Street Art and Murals”, 25 August 2024. One new 2024 mural on Coronation Road, by Jagung, on a different building.
- Wikipedia: “Sweetpea (TV series)”. Premiered on 10 October 2024 on Sky Atlantic; used to date the billboard in Art UK’s undated photos.
- Tech Moon (Technicolour Moon), the artist’s website.
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