This exhibition celebrates master brickmakers Northcot Brick's history - from Battersea Power Station to Antony Gormley
Northcot Brick, originally named Northwick Brickworks, was set up 100 years ago to provide employment and housing locally after the First World War. This thinking echoed Arts & Crafts ideas from C R Ashbee setting up the Guild of Handicraft in 1888 to the establishment of the Rural Industries Bureau in 1925.
The brickworks flourished, famously providing the bricks for London’s Battersea Power Station designed by the renowned architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in the 1930s. The building was listed II* in 2006 and in 2007 work began on its restoration using Northcot bricks once again.
The exhibition will have a wide appeal and include events for families including 'play with clay', opportunities to discover more about the skeletons and ammonites found on the site, and showings of the popular children’s TV programme ‘Rosie and Jim’ on their visit to the brickworks. Also on show will be a video showing Antony Gormley’s visit to Northcot before his recent exhibition at White Cube, London where his installation was created using specially commissioned bricks.
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