In this podcast artist Megan Clark-Bagnall tries to find a working methodology for the new art world based on learnings taken from the demise of Little Chef restaurants in the UK. The Bricks Podcast follow Bristol’s contemporary artists, on journeys within the city walls and beyond, along the leylines of…
DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THE JD HERE (Version 4/ 23-11-20) BRICKS PUBLIC ART PRODUCER JOB DESCRIPTION Position: Public Art Producer Responsible to: Jack Gibbon, Director Bricks. Salary: Competitive, commensurate with experience. Hours: 24 – 40 hours per week. We are currently…
Bricks Artist Talks are programmed every Wednesday, 13.00-14.00. Join us each week on Zoom – no booking required. Talks will be recorded for future broadcast. Contact us on 07709 264 201 if you have trouble accessing Zoom. In this talk Jemma will talk about her current projects –…
Megan Clark-Bagnall [00:00:00] Before you listen to this podcast, I’d like to make a suggestion. This episode ended up being quite a lot about context and seeing as context is the key. I think the best way to listen to this episode would be driving in a car. But perhaps you don’t…
Alice Sheppard Fidler in conversation with Bricks artist Nick Grellier, October 2020 You sent me an image of your new work; shall we talk about it? Yes, I showed you the first element of a new installation piece I have started developing for the Bricks micro commission. You mentioned…
Bricks are looking for an animator to collaborate with our St Anne’s Artist Producer, Jo Bushell, to create a 3 min animation for projecting onto a 3 story building. The animation would combine moving and shape-shifting forms representing community/community activity and mutual aspiration with text and will be used as…
Rodney Harris [00:00:07] There’s something romantic about an island isn’t there, there’s something sort of magic. Or certainly a small island I think. Yeah… Olivia Jones [00:00:27] At the far western point of the Bristol Channel where the flowing waters meet with the Atlantic Ocean stands a small defiant island…
Olivia Jones’s podcast is centred around a recent journey to Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel. Speaking with artists, geologists and those working to protect the island’s wildlife, the recording explores the island’s volcanic history and how those living on Lundy have engaged with the material of the island over…
INTRODUCTION Bricks has kindly commissioned me to develop my work for the next couple of months. For the past 5 years my work explored camera-less photographic processes. This includes camera obscura installations, sculptural light prints, and photograms of…
Artist and St Annes resident David Alesworth has been commissioned through a micro commission open call to produce his participatory artwork St Annes Museum of Miscellaneous Things. The St.Annes Museum of Miscellaneous Things now invites the submission of artifacts for the collection. These should represent your ideas about life…
Hannah Murgatroyd [00:00:00] You have to destroy your father or your mother, don’t you. And that’s what it’s about. You could love them, but you have to destroy them in order to be an artist. I just think you have to be critical of your gods you know. Bo Lanyon…