Brickell Brac: a bricolage of impermanent imperfection

Brickell Brac is as instructive as it is liberating, irrepressibly funny and filled to the brim with surprise and possibility.Inspired in essence by groundbreaking New Zealand potter Barry Brickell, Brickell Brac is itself an experiment in breaking ground – carried forward with an ever-flexing band of artists and makers across Aotearoa.Observed, experienced, and recorded from the inside, the book traces the wild adventures of the Brickell Brac crew alongside the author’s own wrestlings with writing, making, and letting go. Featuring disparate stylistic contributions from the participants of this silly art movement, Brickell Brac becomes a celebration of collaboration in all its abundance.Created with extremely serious silliness, Brickell Brac happens when expectations, boundaries, and preconceived ideas about what art can and should be are stripped away.It’s brickells in your undies, in a cyclone, on Pot Rock at high tide. It’s not conceding to the disease of convention. It’s a bricolage of impermanent imperfection. It’s life as art.It’s not the thing but how.“Gnarly magnificence. Brightness, good humour and spirit(s) aplenty.” – Greg O’Brien Read more