Bricks

Listen to artist Dorcas Casey as she shares the thinking and making process behind her new public artwork, Crocodile, created for the Welcome Building in Bristol (March 2025). This episode features contributions from the 100 local hands that helped bring the artwork to life. Special thanks to Octavia Casey, Nola Hersey, Sal Caseley, and the Dings Community, as well as the St Anne’s House community...

Join Bristolian artist Claudia Collins and Australian artist Heather Matthew in this episode of #BricksPodcast as they embark on a journey through the labyrinth of ADHD and the artist's path.  Expect unexpected twists and turns as they delve into the enchanting world of straying off course. Just like the trails left by curious snails, their conversation meanders through procrastination spirals and...

Join Chloe, Naomi and Jenny from The Art and Energy Collective on this episode of #BricksPodcast as they take us on a journey through climate action, collective creativity and the surprising ways in which we can learn from moss.   With extra contributions from Bryologist Matt Stribley and Executive Director of The Climate Coalition Helen Meech, as well as a collection of voice messages from the Ta...

In this Bricks podcast episode, artist Ellie Shipman and curator Elita Robertson discuss exhibiting social practice, working creatively with communities and bringing the personal into the participatory around Ellie’s solo show RE:COLLECTION - Regathering Social Practice at St. Anne’s House, 2 - 11 Nov 2023.   Artist Ellie Shipman and curator Elita Robertson discuss working creatively with communit...

Tim Ryan's podcast ‘Something Close to Nothing’ takes us on a 24 hour tour of the Feeder Road in mid November, through storytelling, interviews with fishermen, and his own personal reflections.  The podcast is a love letter to coarse fishing in general, viewed through the lens of the Feeder Road, Bristol. A unique space, capable of visually articulating its own history. Its industrial failure and...

In this Bricks podcast episode, Rowan Bishop meets with Synnøve Fredericks and takes a walk around the beautiful trees of Bristol's Ashton Court estate, discussing the process of creating the Trinity Vortex, her practice, her love of nature and the outdoors, and her hopes for the impact that the work will have.

Madame Ceski (Francesca Simmons) is an artist with a special interest in folk and craft traditions, and in this podcast she explores these questions through the lens of how we busied ourselves during lockdown. Through interviews with those who discovered a new found hobby or passion during the pandemic, and with a focus on Francesca’s current work exploring using touch to create sound within craft...

In this podcast we explore the stories, memories and myths of St Anne’s, a hidden corner of Bristol with an intriguing history. You can listen to conversations and contributions from local residents, aged under 10 to over 90, where they speak about the histories of St Anne’s House and the surrounding area. The episode also shares restored archive recordings from Bristol MShed’s industrial and mari...

Kayle Brandon is a Bristol based artist who often works with local communities making artworks that look into how people relate to place, environment and social politics.   This podcast explores the development of a new work of Kayle’s in Stoke Gifford, Bristol, where she worked with local residents and herbalist Chris Roe to produce an edible food mapping plaque.

Dr Myles-Jay Linton, figurative artist, psychologist and academic, has created a new neon artwork for the Moxy Bristol hotel lobby’s library area. This podcast explores his development of the commission through conversations with friends and colleagues about the artwork. It talks through the process of what began as a digital line drawing, which then became a physical neon artwork through partners...

This podcast explores the process of producing a new mixed media public artwork set in the ground floor windows of the Moxy Hotel, Bristol, by artists Lawrence Hoo and Chaz Golding. Four jewelled shapes are cut into the windows, overlaid with a poem dedicated to St Paul’s and its people. As the viewer peers in, a combination of lights and mirrors reflect their own face back through the artwork, si...

In this podcast artist Jonathan Kelham takes us to the year 2040 to reflect back on the stratospheric rise of the fictional club Super Duper St. Anne's F.C. Kelham invites you to muse on the slow demise of amateur football with a range of guests across the local football scene.

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.

A walk to a place long forgotten becomes the basis for a rumination on memory, place, and the creation of personal identities. Cliff Andrade’s internalised audio adventure into the unique mental state entered into when walking.

Ben Hartley examines the parallels between Ruderal plant species and their expert ability to colonise disturbed lands, and the processes of gentrification and urban regeneration.

In this episode, 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. 

Olivia Jones's podcast is centred around a recent journey to Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel. Speaking with artists, geologists and those working to protect the island's wildlife, the recording explores the island's volcanic history and how those living on Lundy have engaged with the material of the island over time.    Produced by Rowan Bishop, co-produced by Bricks. Original music by  @rowan...

Bo Lanyon explores how artists working now have responded to the legacy of the St. Ives school, speaking with Lucy Stein, Hannah Murgatroyd and musician Gwenno on painting, the British Modernist tradition, ancient Cornish fougous, living with the dead and the lasting influence of his grandfather, Peter Lanyon.