BRINK is a gallery founded by Richard Parr, founder of architectural practice Richard Parr Associates (RPA).

Both BRINK and RPA are housed in The People’s Hall in W11. The gallery commands the street corner, our doors standing just beneath the mosaic that announces its name. Built in 1901 as a Temperance Hall (an institution promoting abstinence from alcohol), the building has served many varied, and often contradictory purposes since. In the 1970s it was home to The Republic of Frestonia, an artists commune and short-lived attempt to create an independent nation in West London. It was also where The Clash recorded ‘Rock the Casbah.’

This incongruity between temperance and tumult is reflected in the location of BRINK which stands on the boundary between the crescents of Notting Hill and ex-industrial estates of Notting Dale and Westfield. BRINK exists within this in-betweenness, on the edge of toppling into either territory.