Team – Summer Placements

Lucy is an alumnus of the University of Bristol, where she has recently graduated with a First Class Honours in Liberal Arts (with Major in Art History). She entered the arts in acting – regularly performing in theatre alongside working as a Young Practitioner at Chichester Festival Theatre. After enrolling in a Fine Art Foundation course at Brighton City College, she began practicing as a freelance illustrator and fine artist whilst also working at CASS Sculpture Park in Goodwood, Chichester. She is a regular volunteer at both the Royal West of England Academy and Spike Island and has previously interned at Lougher Contemporary Gallery in Westbury-on-Trym. Post graduation, she hopes to explore arts access, facilitation and production.

Ash is currently our in-house graphic designer here at Bricks and hopes to help create a polished and consistent visual identity for continued application far beyond his placement. Ash enrolled in this year’s Creative Workforce for the Future programme and spent six months on a communications placement at Spike Island, in which he spent time developing various bits of visual content, including video pieces for the Instagram grid and the Story function. His educational background includes a BA in Graphic Design at Falmouth University and shortly after that, an MA in Graphic Arts at UWE Bristol. In-between these years of study, Ash worked for WeSUP Paddleboard Centre on Gylly Beach in Falmouth and as well as SUP (stand-up paddleboard) tuition, helped in designing elements of the business plan for future nationwide expansion. Ash’s personal practice is generally typography-centric, with projects ranging from publication to 3D design. Inspired by the potential in the mundane and fuelled by hoarding habits and unrelenting curiosity, Ash has most recently, created a book called ‘shopping lists:’ and designed a typeface to fit inside a cube (@aaalvk).

Beth is a Marketing Communications Management student at the University of the West of England (UWE) starting her final year in September. Beth has joined Bricks as a Summer Intern where she hopes to help Bricks build a more engaging social media presence, which is exciting, accessible and diverse. 

She has experience also working with Bristol Refugee Festival this Summer, helping to share their festival online. Beth has a great interest in Bristol’s art scene having attended many exhibitions at the Arnolfini and Spike Island as well other independent venues. In her spare time, she will be seen altering clothes and practicing making original pieces; sketching creative concepts and photography are other ways Beth will spend her time.

Maia is a recent graduate from Bath School of Art and Design where she studied Contemporary Arts Practice, specialising in Sculpture. She joined Bricks as a Marketing and Communications Intern, focusing on research. Maia previously worked as an Assistant Curator for the Fresh Air Sculpture show in 2019, as well as volunteering for institutions such as Spike Island and Glasgow Tramway. Maia is continuing her practice an artist, currently working within ceramics, from her studio in Bath. Her latest work has been invited to be shown at the 44AD Gallery in Bath this Autumn for their sculpture show, Guts.