The Brut Blog

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…

Swindon has a new studio for outsider art. Studio BRUT opens at Arclite House this August, run by SLART and Harrie Dearing in partnership with Swindon Culture Collective and Hypha Studios. The opening night is Saturday 15 August 2026, 6.30pm to 9.30pm, at Arclite House, Century Road, Peatmoor, Swindon SN5 5YN. Two self-taught artists, one … 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.

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 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.

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?

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.

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.

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.