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 creative producer and CEO with a passion for supporting cross sector creative and community collaborations and developing the ecology for visual arts practice in Bristol.
In 2018 Jack founded Bricks and has a dual role as executive lead and an active producer developing projects. Notable Bricks projects include building Bricks Public Art & Creative Infrastructure Consultancy and developing St Annes House as a creative community hub through codesign with the hyper local community of St Annes and the regional creative community of the West of England.
2010-18 Jack founded and ran nomadic art galleryAntlers working with artists through pop up exhibitions, partnership commissions and publishing. Antlers worked with predominantly early career artists supporting them to explore some form of stretch forward in their practice.
Graduating in 2007 with a BA Photography prior to 2010 Jack worked as an artist studio assistant 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
Riah joined Bricks in October 2021, as Public Art Producer while Kerrie Burke-Avery is on maternity leave.
Before joining Bricks, Riah worked as the Strategic Lead, Creative Industry and Arts with an economic development agency in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her background spans diverse roles across public art management, cultural policy, community arts, public programming, event production, curation and education in local authorities and museums. She held a two-year position on the board of Museums Aotearoa, New Zealand’s national museum sector organisation, and has developed and overseen award-winning public art events.
Riah is concurrently working on a PhD in Public Art at the University of Leeds. She also holds a Masters in Museum and Heritage Studies, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons).
