Bricks has been commissioned to deliver a public art programme for the new Trinity Academy, Lockleaze, Bristol BS7 9BY. We are excited to receive artwork proposals from individual artists or creative collaborations who have a passion for the creative arts – including music, theatre, visual arts, dance or others. Artists…
This is an ongoing open call for artists interested in working in the public realm. By filling in the short form below you can flag up your work to us and join the email list we will send open calls to. This is not for a specific project, its more…
Bricks seek to commission five new public artworks for Moxy Bristol at 55 Newfoundland Circus, St Pauls, Bristol, BS2 9AP We are excited to receive proposals from emerging and established artists who have strong personal connections to St Paul’s, St Jude’s and the local area, including visual artists, writers and…
Our talks programme will resume again later in 2021. Have a look below at the recordings of our weekly talks with a range of Bricks Associate Artists. Jemma Gunning Artist Talk In this talk Jemma will talk about her current projects – documenting our fading heritage, WWF collaboration and…
For the past few months, delighted to be awarded a Bricks micro commission, I have been focusing on bringing to light my long standing ideas about storytelling in relation to visual art. I proposed to explore a different domain to my usual forms of expression and worked predominantly with…
Annabel Other as Scorching Horse Annabel Other explores how it feels to miss the closeness and comfort of friendship during periods of isolation, through conversations about horses with her friends. Produced by Rowan Bishop, co-produced by Jack Gibbon and Jessica Akerman of Bricks. Original music by …
Mahali 0:00 Do you think horses hum to themselves? All 0:02 *laughing* Annabel 0:05 Oh God, Yeah. Course they… Do you think they’re quite musical? I mean, they do that kind of dressage Mahali 0:13 That kind of clippy cloppy thing, that rhythm. Annabel 0:14 They’ve got rhythm,…
As many of the pieces I’ve been sharing over the past few months have been a work in progress, I thought it would be a nice way to end the blog with a collection of some finished pieces. Here’s the rock weave that I first covered in the Natural…
I’ve played around with replacing the loom with an object previously in my Natural Materials post. Continuing on from this I decided to make some structures to allow me to make a particular weave whilst also pushing the weave into a more sculptural piece. All the materials used to…
I touched on reducing the need for consuming in my previous post about scraps. Following on from this I began to save materials that were destined for recycling and refuse which has really taken a toll on my studio space! I built up a lot of packaging materials this…
[00:00:00] Atmospheric street noises recorded outside 27 Harcourt Road. Cliff Andrade: [00:00:10] (Sighs) I’m feeling anxious. What am I actually anxious about? Now that I am standing here I am not sure this is going to work. Maybe I should have just said I couldn’t do this podcast anymore. You’re…