Blog: Commissions

Gather St Anne's was a project which collated information about St Anne's House and its history, and how it contributed to the community around it.

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 …

1. INTRODUCTION Bricks has kindly commissioned me to develop my work for the next couple of months. For the past 5 years my work explored camera-less photographic processes. This includes camera obscura installations, sculptural light prints, and photograms of…

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…

Skeleton sketches in non-traditional anatomical poses. My proposal for the Bricks Micro commission is all about developing visual ideas of anatomy in motion via sequential drawings and animation. I want to think about how to step away from traditional static poses used to represent the body within medical art and…

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…

Introduction I’m delighted to be working on a micro commission for Bricks over the next couple of months, centred around combining painting and animation, using projection. I consider myself primarily a painter, although most of my work has involved painting and screen-printing to date. I’m drawn to transitory, familiar materials that…

In this podcast artist Megan Clark-Bagnall tries to find a working methodology for the new art world based on learnings taken from the demise of Little Chef restaurants in the UK.  The Bricks Podcast follow Bristol’s contemporary artists, on journeys within the city walls and beyond, along the leylines of…