Bricks from the Kiln is an independent publisher of books, editions and a somewhat yearly journal. Co-run by Matthew Stuart and Andrew Walsh-Lister between the UK and US, and founded in 2015, its output is largely concerned with explorative yet critically minded forms of writing and language sitting at the intersection of art, design and literature.

Guest edited by artist Helen Marten and literary agent Harriet Moore with Matthew Stuart, this volume of the journal considers what it means for a publication to be an allegorical container. A simple box in which to gather multiple things, an economical set of permutations — rational in one sense, yet defiantly flexible to move. Contributors were approached with an open invitation; some explored the multiplicities of containing or containers, while others filled the printed vessel with their own ongoing preoccupations. The following pages perform as envelope, bag, shell, net, fold, alarm, letter and instruction. There are holes to disappear within; smoke to knot and wind; shadows to unfold — a context that takes in and binds, finding new kinships from unforeseen proximities.

Edited by Helen Marten, Harriet Moore & Matthew Stuart

Paperback, 240pp

December, 2024