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

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…

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.