Making Ground is an Arts Council funded collaborative interdisciplinary project exploring site-specific making at a disused brickworks in Sussex.

Sourcing materials from this post-industrial site, basket-maker Annemarie O’Sullivan and ceramic artist Elaine Bolt will work together to; Carry out a pilot project through research and collaboration, Produce a series of collaborative works, Investigate how a continuing collaborative journey emerges and Involve other artists/specialists to enrich the collaborative process.

This research and development project will focus on a sense of place, changing seasons, and how being closer to the source of our materials, and working together can affect our making. We’ll be investigating how a collaborative journey emerges and we’ll be involving other artists to enrich our collaborative process.