Unbrick dissects the core components of ‘brick’, through a queering of materiality to create non-fuctional replicas, and examines the industrial decline in Scotland, particularly across Edinburgh and East Lothian.

Each found brick (and each agar replica) has been stamped, indicating it was made in brick works in the local area and all were collected from Morrison’s Haven - the former port of the defunct Prestongrange Brick and Tile Works.

Agar, used in petri dishes, is used in this work to collect bacteria, generating mould on the agar bricks. Viewers are invited to touch the replica bricks to feel their unexpected and recoil-inducing texture, accelerating the rate of mould production as each touch degrades the bricks.