Red brick

'Red Brick' was created while I was Artist-in-Residence at Marlborough College. I wished to work with a material connection to the College, and when I drilled into the white wall of the College’s Mount House Gallery (causing vibrant red dust to spill out) I knew that this was material I would like to investigate further. I imagined that the College bricks, had, through the years, absorbed the sounds of Marlborough, and, in this way, resembled the life-blood of the college. I began to break the bricks (some of them two hundred years old) into dust at Barton Farm, where the use of a steam roller made the process a great deal quicker. I worked with the dust in Norwood Hall, where the dust resembled a carpet in a stately home, and echoed the orange rug in the portrait hanging above.