FOUNDATION

"What a load of rubbish" – Daily Mirror, 1976

That was the reaction to Carl Andre's Equivalence VIII. It was accompanied by questions around why a bricklayer can't be seen as an artist and why those bricks were worth so much.

Nearly 50 years later, and in the year of Andre's death and we have an answer.

We took 4,000 bricks and make a series of sculptures, transforming the bricks from industrial objects into art objects. We then gave them away. They are now part of construction projects big and small. Some have been kept as ornament, or souvenir, others are supporting walls in museums, and lining gardens.

This is a project about transformation and context. About enabling art to be seen in the very spaces we live in. It is sculpture and architecture.