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.

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.

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.