Way back in 2013, Nick Park’s Academy Award-winning character was unleashed on the streets of Bristol in the first Gromit trail. Over 10 years, 500 sculptures and £20 million raised for Bristol Children’s Hospital later, Gromit Unleashed is back in the city for 2025. The Grand Appeal will once again team up with the Bristol-based animation studio, Aardman, for Gromit Unleashed 3.
Building on the success of previous trails (Gromit Unleashed, Shaun in the City, and Gromit Unleashed 2) where we’ve seen interactive sculptures, famous faces, big brands, and more, this year’s nine-week public art trail looks to only be bigger, better (and more crackin’) than ever. With 53 “star-studded sculptures of Wallace, Gromit, Feathers McGraw, and brand-new character Norbot the Smart Gnome” popping up in Bristol and beyond.
When is Gromit Unleashed 3?
Hot off the heels of Wallace & Gromit’s second-ever feature-length film, ‘Vengeance Most Fowl’, Gromit Unleashed 3 will offer Bristolians a summer of sculpture-spotting fun from June 30 to August 31, 2025. Wallace, Gromit, Feathers McGraw and Norbot are all being reimagined by international film studios, film directors, classic British cultural treasures, celebrities and brilliant local artistic talent.
We now know that Gromit Unleashed 3 will take trail hunters from Brabazon to Broadmead, College Green to Cheddar Gorge, and beyond, as the locations of all 53 sculptures have been revealed. This includes iconic locations like Ashton Court, Clifton Suspension Bridge, St Nicholas Market, Underfall Yard and IKEA.
What sculptures could I see?
This year’s trail will see a Wednesday-inspired Feathers McGraw (signature deadpan look included) welcoming visitors to Bristol at Temple Meads; The Big Friendly Wallace inspired by Roald Dahl’s The BFG, at The New Inn Blagdon this summer; and a no-nonsense Norbot, straight from Vengeance Most Fowl, on Park Street, outside the Freemason’s Hall.
This is on top of Gromit as the Ringmaster of the Greatest Dog Show on Earth outside Bristol Children’s Hospital and an extraterrestrial Gromit, Beagle 3—sponsored by Trail Partner Rolls-Royce plc and created by Tim Sutcliffe—which will be found at Aerospace Bristol this summer. Plus, Wallace in Roman armour, Gromit as a disco ball, and Feathers McGraw as the Jack of Diamonds.
Other sculptures include:
- Wallace reimagined by artist Mister Hope as Robin Hood
- Victoria Richards’ glamorous, roaring 20s-style Gromit
- Illustrator Paula Bowles’ Norbot as a swashbuckling pirate
- Emily Ketteringham has turned Norbot’s towering hat into a fairytale turret
- Simon Tozer’s cinema-inspired Norbot complete without popcorn, sweets, and a drink!
Where can I find the Gromit Unleashed 3 sculptures?
- Aardman Animations, Gas Ferry Road
- Aerospace Bristol
- Ashton Court, Long Ashton
- Ashton Gate Stadium, Ashton Road
- Beauford Arms, Hawkesbury Upton
- Brabazon, Patchway
- Bristol Bus & Coach Station, Marlborough Street
- Bristol Children’s Hospital, Upper Maudlin Street
- Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Queens Road
- Broadmead
- Cabot Circus
- Cheddar Gorge and Caves, Cheddar
- Clifton Observatory, Clifton
- Clifton Suspension Bridge
- College Green
- Cribbs Mall
- CrossFit Henleaze, Henleaze Road
- Flaxpits Lane, Winterbourne
- Freemasons Hall, Park Street
- Gardiner Haskins Interiors, Straight Street
- Hargreaves Lansdown, Anchor Road
- IKEA Bristol, Eastgate Shopping Centre, Eastgate Road
- Kingswood Park, High Street, Kingswood
- M Shed, Princes Wharf, Wapping Road
- Narrow Quay
- Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm, Wraxall
- North Street, Southville
- Puxton Park, Hewish
- Quakers Friars, Broadmead
- St Mary Centre, Thornbury
- St Mary Redcliffe, Redcliffe
- St Nicholas Market, The Corn Exchange
- Temple Meads Station
- The Kendleshire, Coalpit Heath
- The New Inn, Blagdon
- The Rose & Crown, Pucklechurch
- The Wave, Easter Compton
- Thunderbolt Square
- TOUT’S, Main Road, Cleeve
- Underfall Yard, Cumberland Road
- Valentine’s Bridge, Temple Quay
- Victoria Park, Windmill Hill
- Victoria Rooms, Queens Road
- Victoria Square, Clifton Village
- Wai Yee Hong, Eastgate Road
- Warmley Waiting Room, Bristol and Bath Railway Path
- We The Curious, One Millennium Square
- West Country Water Park, Frampton Cotterell
- Whiteladies Road, Clifton
- Willow Brook, Bradley Stoke
- WWT Slimbridge, Gloucestershire