The Brut List: Meet our First 5 Artists
SLART and I are thrilled to launch The Brut List, Studio BRUT’s new directory celebrating outsider artists working across Swindon and Wiltshire. Outsider art (or art brut, “raw…
Harrie Dearing
Introducing The Brut List
Making Swindon’s Outsider Artists Impossible to IgnoreI’ve lost count of the number of conversations I’ve had with project facilitators, curators, and organisers who all say some version of…
Cass Art: BRUT is Proud to Call You a Partner
Cass Art has come on board as an in-kind sponsor of Studio BRUT, donating art supplies to help kit out our Swindon outsider art studio. Here is why that matters.
We’ve Got a Space. Now What? Designing Studio BRUT Around Accessibility
Step-free access, adaptable easels, a workbench on wheels and Frankie’s bed: how Harrie and SLART are designing Studio BRUT around accessibility from day one.
First Day in the Studio
Day one at Studio BRUT: bare walls, boxes of canvases, a blessing of the space, and lunch by the lagoon behind Arclite House. The studio diary begins.
The Threads That Stretch: Moving 300 Paintings Out of My Home
Moving 300 paintings out of the house and into Studio BRUT turned out to be the hard part. Not the logistics, the feelings. On strings, change and growth.
Announcing Studio BRUT
Bold Raw Untrained Talent: Harrie Dearing and SLART are co-founding Studio BRUT, a new outsider artist studio at Arclite House, Swindon, with Swindon Culture Collective.