SLART

“What if we find a sponsor to give us a 3d printer 🫣”Harrie, Sunday, 5.14pm “Sure, I’ll send some emails”Steve, Monday, 10.21am That is the entire conversation that started this. Like most good things here it began with Harrie having an idea, and with the fact that asking for things is terrifying but she asked … Read more

In 1993 I was eleven. Sitting in class one day I drew a black and white cartoon strip about an environmentally friendly earthworm. It went into the Earthworm Cartoon Quiz, a national competition run by Friends of the Earth. Raymond Briggs and Quentin Blake were two of the judges. The Quentin Blake. My earthworm was … Read more

A week off my feet, seven voice notes, ten poles from Screwfix and a first cube built and sat in. Building the answer to last week’s question, one pole at a time.

Art as space and sculpture: SLART on lit cobwebs, Musashi, hunting for materials, and building the first cube structure inside Studio BRUT.

SLART on flowing water, Robert Irwin, and the question driving his first project at Studio BRUT: what would a small calming space feel like?

SLART’s gear is in and the temporary walls are up: studio, gallery space and storage for Swindon Culture Collective. A walkthrough of Studio BRUT taking shape.

9 April 2026: a first walk around Arclite House at Peatmoor, the curved glass building that would become home to Studio BRUT.