Bricks are delivering a public art programme for the new Trinity Academy secondary school in Lockleaze, Bristol.
This opportunity supports and celebrates Trinity Academy’s creative ethos of ‘heart, head, soul’ in a creative commission that responds to the multi-academy trust’s cultural ambition for every pupil to have ‘access to enrichment opportunities, in particular in music and the performing arts’.
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
With over 1,200 young people due to make this new building their everyday space for education, creativity, inspiration and productivity, Trinity Academy has the potential to be a much loved hub for not only students, but the surrounding local communities; supporting cultural cohesion and value for local public spaces.
This commission thinks imaginatively and responsibly about the place, people and wider area it is being built to serve.
The key aims for the Creative Commission include:
To enhance and celebrate the school’s civic role
Working with an artist in a creative collaboration
To create a layered programme of temporary and permanent cultural activity
Take accessibility into consideration
Links to wider Lockleaze cultural activity
Build on Trinity Academy’s creative partnerships imaginatively
THEARTIST
We are pleased to announce Synnøve Fredericks will be creating the artwork for this programme, which will be completed in early 2022.
Synnøve Fredericks
Synnøve is a sensory designer, artist and maker.
Creating installations, sets and furniture that communicate emotion, orientation and story through the senses. Trained as a designers and furniture maker she uses a wide knowledge of sustainable materials, plants, light and sound to create tactile and welcoming spaces.
Her artistic works look through craft and landscape to explore belonging and connection. She has researched palaeolithic processes, from fire by friction and green wood work to leather tanning, to uncover the origins of how we consume and design. These techniques reveal our most basic requirements to feel at home and guide the objects she produces.
www.synnove.net | The Edge of Things
She values collaboration, creating new works with directors, dancers, gardeners and schools.
Showing at spaces from the South Bank Centre in London and Tribeca Film Festival New York, to domestic homes, food markets and gardens internationally and for local benefit.
Synnøve will be working with Academy pupils and local people to create an artwork inspired by the work of the school.
We have worked with a Creative Commissioning Group made up of the Headteacher and a pupil from Trinity Academy, the City Council and Bricks, to run an open call for artists, to shortlist submissions and to support the selection of the final commission.
Kerrie joined Bricks in January 2021 as Public Art Producer.
Kerrie leads Bricks’ Public Art Consultancy practice, which is fast becoming a nationally recognised leader in developing and delivering high quality Public Art Projects in collaboration with local communities, local artists, local authorities and developers.
For the last decade Kerrie worked as a Senior Producer, Programmer and Project Manager, in Theatre, Live Events, National and International Touring Music Productions, International Festivals and Television.
Prior to this Kerrie worked for a decade as a Town Planner, project managing multi-disciplinary teams in delivering large scale, mixed use redevelopments across the UK, in urban and rural locations.
Kerrie is a Chartered Town Planner (MRTPI) and has worked with communities delivering projects and undertaking strategic and local consultations as part of the Planning System, Sports Development, Health and the Arts.
Jack is a producer and organisation director with a passion for supporting cross sector creative collaborations and developing the ecology for visual arts practice in Bristol.
Jack founded Bricks and has a dual role as executive lead and an active producer developing projects.
Jack is co-lead of the Cultural Spaces Workgroup of Bristol DIY Arts Network supporting sector wide development.
2010 – 2018 Jack ran nomadic art gallery Antlers supporting Bristol based artists through pop up exhibitions, partnership commissions, consultancy and publishing. Antlers focused on supporting artists to explore a new side of their practice often encouraging some form of stretch.
2017 – 2019 Jack worked on the research and development for Bricks, exploring new models to support artists in Bristol, this work was supported by Arts Council England Grants for Arts, Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy Fellowship & Postgraduate Certificate, University of Leeds, Clore Leadership Short Course and Creative United’s Prosper.
Jack also works as a freelance producer/ curator for organisations including The Architecture Centre, National Trust and Studio Upstairs. Prior to 2010 Jack worked as a studio assistant for Damien Hirst and was a practising artist involved in artist led projects in Stroud.
Trinity Academy, Lockleaze, mid construction aerial view
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Trinity Academy, Brangwyn Grove, Lockleaze, Bristol, BS7 9BY
Kerrie joined Bricks in January 2021 as Public Art Producer.
Kerrie leads Bricks’ Public Art Consultancy practice, which is fast becoming a nationally recognised leader in developing and delivering high quality Public Art Projects in collaboration with local communities, local artists, local authorities and developers.
For the last decade Kerrie worked as a Senior Producer, Programmer and Project Manager, in Theatre, Live Events, National and International Touring Music Productions, International Festivals and Television.
Prior to this Kerrie worked for a decade as a Town Planner, project managing multi-disciplinary teams in delivering large scale, mixed use redevelopments across the UK, in urban and rural locations.
Kerrie is a Chartered Town Planner (MRTPI) and has worked with communities delivering projects and undertaking strategic and local consultations as part of the Planning System, Sports Development, Health and the Arts.
Jack is a producer and organisation director with a passion for supporting cross sector creative collaborations and developing the ecology for visual arts practice in Bristol.
Jack founded Bricks and has a dual role as executive lead and an active producer developing projects.
Jack is co-lead of the Cultural Spaces Workgroup of Bristol DIY Arts Network supporting sector wide development.
2010 – 2018 Jack ran nomadic art gallery Antlers supporting Bristol based artists through pop up exhibitions, partnership commissions, consultancy and publishing. Antlers focused on supporting artists to explore a new side of their practice often encouraging some form of stretch.
2017 – 2019 Jack worked on the research and development for Bricks, exploring new models to support artists in Bristol, this work was supported by Arts Council England Grants for Arts, Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy Fellowship & Postgraduate Certificate, University of Leeds, Clore Leadership Short Course and Creative United’s Prosper.
Jack also works as a freelance producer/ curator for organisations including The Architecture Centre, National Trust and Studio Upstairs. Prior to 2010 Jack worked as a studio assistant for Damien Hirst and was a practising artist involved in artist led projects in Stroud.
