Brickfield Bodmin

Location

The Old Library, IntoBodmin, Bodmin

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Dates

Sat 28th February, 2026 — Sun 1st March, 2026
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Saturday: 12pm - 4pm
Sunday: 11am - 2pm

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About this event

Learn how to mix a clay body using local clay, form a ‘clat’ and create your own Bodmin or Flamm brick by throwing it into a wooden brick mould.

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

Practicalities: The site is wheelchair accessible. This workshop is drop-in and no booking required.

About the Artist

Rosanna Martin is a sculptural ceramic artist, educator and PhD student at Falmouth University. She has specialist interest and engagement in the china clay landscape and industrial heritage of Cornwall. She co-founded Brickfield in 2018, a participatory brickworks and live research site on a patch of ex-china clay extraction land that uses waste clay, quartz sand and mica to collectively make bricks by hand.

Tim Hutton is an established artist with a broad practice that addresses ecological concerns. Through working with wood, clay, and other natural materials he is interested in the stories the land reveals. Through participation, curiosity and making with our hands, we can explore what it is to belong in a place and a community.

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