Brickflats
I spent a good part of my life in big cities where shitty living conditions are the norm if you are not rich.
With this Street Art project I create handcrafted stories that play on the global housing market.
Damaged walls with a missing brick seemed like a niche no-one has claimed. So I am using these holes in walls as building space for my own little flats.
Craft
Brickflats are always replacing something missing; we never demolish anything for a brickflat.
They are handmade and cast in resin making them look basically a solid glass cube.
Community-Created Adventure
Fans of the project made a google map to track London brickflats.
From this, one of the most unexpected and wonderful aspects of the project emerged: people began creating their own Brickflats tours.
Saturday café-hopping turned into Brickflat-hunting, friends planned walks from one installation to the next, and some even mapped out running routes connecting as many Brickflats as possible.
The project had started to exist beyond the artworks themselves, becoming a small, self-organised way for people to discover and experience London.
