BRICKFIELD 

2018 - ongoing

Brickfield is an experimental participatory brickworks set in a disused china clay quarry near St Austell, Cornwall. Brickfield explores how the heritage of Cornish brick making can generate contemporary approaches to the material. Our aim is to use the process of collective brickmaking as a tool for creating new connections, with each other, with materials and with the local landscape.

In 2020 we received funding from The Heritage Lottery, with which we worked closely with John Osborne, the last man to fire the last working beehive kiln in Cornwall. Together we built a mini-beehive kiln and commissioned a film, a series of photographs and a publication. You can access a free pdf of the publication via the link below. 

THE BRICKFIELD GUIDE TO CORNISH BRICKMAKING

BRICKFIELD BRICK COLLECTION

The photos used in the publication and of the brick collection were taken by Oliver Udy.