BRINK is an art gallery in west London. Our programme focuses on artists who bring new perspectives and approaches to how we interact with space and materials. We are drawn to work that sits at an edge: between painting and object, between disciplines, between the art we look at and the spaces we live in.
BRINK was founded in 2025 by Richard Parr, founder of the architectural practice Richard Parr Associates (RPA). The gallery and the practice share a home in The People’s Hall, a closeness that shapes our programme. Our exhibitions keep up a conversation between art, architecture and design, between the work on the walls and the rooms it might one day live in.
THE PEOPLE’S HALL
Standing at the meeting point of Freston Road and Olaf Street, BRINK’s entrance is just beneath the mosaic that announces the building’s name. The People’s Hall was built in 1901 as a Temperance Hall, an institution promoting abstinence from alcohol and offering an alternate community space to pubs and drinking dens.
In the 1970s the building took on a very different community role, serving as the focal point for the ‘Republic of Frestonia’. The republic was formed by an artist commune squatting in the surrounding streets, who declared it an independent nation from the United Kingdom. Although this was short-lived, Frestonia continued as a collective into the 1980s as a creative hub for artists, writers, musicians and cultural activists. Its music studios, now the studios of Richard Parr Associates, were the site of many rehearsals and recordings by iconic Punk bands including The Clash and Motörhead.
This free-spirited approach echoes through BRINK’s interdisciplinary and diverse programming and events, as we aim to carry on the legacy of this creative community as the new custodians of The People’s Hall.
