Exhibition, 03 Sept – 15 Sept 2021, St Anne’s House Palace International Film Festival presented //Queer & Indecent//, an archival exploration of the historical lack of access to public spaces that queer people have faced. Simultaneously, it is a celebration of queer space, community, and expression amidst adversity. Credit: NickyTakesPhotos In…
Flash exhibition, 20 – 22 September 2021, St Anne’s House Hosted in RELAY project space at St Anne’s House, our graduate intern Amy Matthews produced a two day group exhibition. The selected artists were art graduates who didn’t have a final degree show due to covid restrictions in summer 2021.
2 artists with studios at St Anne’s House (Esther Hesketh, Skye Turner) and 2 Cardiff artists (Alice Banfield, Sophie Lindsey) meet in each city for a weekend of making together and side by side. We provide a context to generate new work and start conversations, supported…
18 November - 11 December 2021
Artist Richard Allen will move into RELAY project space to explore, research & make.
In 2020 Bricks commissioned Finn Dovey, through our pilot Bricks Artist Programme, to create an interactive game. This became a futuristic dystopian art gallery for artists that responded to his open call for works. Far removed from the standard white box virtual gallery, Finn’s environment and the artworks it houses…
Delighted to be awarded a Bricks micro commission I was able to create this interactive horror story ‘The Food Must Come in or the Fire Be Put out’. It’s a cross-disciplinary piece, something between a visual essay, performative text, drawing and painting with lots of jush given by…
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,…
The Bricks Podcast follow Bristol’s contemporary artists, on journeys within the city walls and beyond, along the ley lines of the South West, up the A roads north, and through their unique observations on the world. In this episode, inspired by Proust’s idea that true recollection can only occur…
Vase No.1 by Ben Hartley. Waste plastics, electrical wire, dried palm fronds, 2020 In Episode 4, artist Ben Hartley explores the parallels between Ruderal plant species with the processes of gentrification & urban renewal. Focusing on a specific area of wasteland adjacent to Ben’s…