Caitlin Brill

Caitlin Brill Caitlin Brill is a Cardiff-based interdisciplinary artist exploring the relationship between ecological systems, heritage, and contemporary materiality.

16/04/2026

Erosion, death and decay
The environment is suffering.
Nature is dying.
Global changes in temperature will cause 70-90% of coral reefs to disappear if warming exceeds 1.5°C.

25% of marine species rely on reefs for food, shelter, and spawning.
With the bleaching of coral reefs there will be a mass extinction of all marine life.
Bleaching happens due to pollution, heat, low tides and intense sunlight.
All are factors of climate change…

Act now

Sometimes the best art isn’t made - it’s found. _____________________________________________...
05/04/2026

Sometimes the best art isn’t made - it’s found. ________________________________________________

Every artist hits this moment. Here’s what it taught me… When I started this degree, I thought art was something you ma...
25/03/2026

Every artist hits this moment. Here’s what it taught me… When I started this degree, I thought art was something you made. Three years later, I know it’s something you learn to listen to.

I came in believing technique would be the thing that carried me. That if I could just get the lines straight, the surfaces smooth, the outcomes “right,” I’d be doing it properly. But the studio had other plans. Materials have a way of teaching you faster than any lecture ever could — usually by refusing to behave.

Clay collapses. Pigment stains. Plaster cracks exactly where you didn’t want it to. And every time, I thought I’d done something wrong.
But slowly, I realised: this is the curriculum.

24/03/2026

Your therapy says everything about your personality. Drop yours below and I’ll tell you what it reveals…________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Lemon rind pigment: because who needs normal paint, anyway?
21/03/2026

Lemon rind pigment: because who needs normal paint, anyway?

After visiting with university as part of project all about sustainability and nature. The tour gave us an opportunity ...
18/03/2026

After visiting with university as part of project all about sustainability and nature. The tour gave us an opportunity to see the large collection of the pressed specimens donated. I felt motivated to recreated these techniques after seeing a page of seaweed pressed in 1901!😲 When I was camping in the summer I created an impromptu prep and pressing station after collecting some floating samples of seaweed. I think they turned out so beautifully, so I leave you with this question. Will you give this a this a go🤔

Making magnesium oxide based cements
16/03/2026

Making magnesium oxide based cements

11/02/2026

This is what fuels my art! 🌊 Snorkeling in such pristine waters in Lanzarote was pure magic, and then, a quick visit from a angel shark *after* the camera stopped. Moments like these remind me why sustainable art matters – preserving the beauty that inspires every brushstroke. What marine life inspires you? ________________________________________________

This study began as a walk across Lanzarote’s volcanic terrain — a landscape shaped by basaltic eruptions, iron oxides, ...
02/02/2026

This study began as a walk across Lanzarote’s volcanic terrain — a landscape shaped by basaltic eruptions, iron oxides, and centuries of erosion.
Each sample of clay and soil carried a fragment of that history.

Back in the studio, the journey continued:
grinding the minerals, suspending them in water, watching the particles separate into distinct pigments.
Ochres, reds, off whites , and volcanic blacks emerged from the sediments.

The final frame brings the path together —
from adventure to sample, from sample to pigment, from pigment to paint.
A map of the island, told through its own materials.

28/11/2025

Part 2: Final results of fishing wire as fibre optics ✨This was an exciting test to
further my studies ready for my degree show!
💫Do you like how it turned out? Answer below, do you enjoy behind the scenes content? _______________________________

Biobased Chair - 2025Watermelon waste bioplastic & CardboardA fully biodegradable chair made from a watermelon rind biop...
08/11/2025

Biobased Chair - 2025

Watermelon waste bioplastic & Cardboard

A fully biodegradable chair made from a watermelon rind bioplastic and cardboard. Created to combat mass production, plastic production, utilising waste cardboard from Tesco

"Fragmented" - 2023Clay & Tile An anamorphic display highlighting the visualisation of family members becoming a collect...
07/11/2025

"Fragmented" - 2023

Clay & Tile

An anamorphic display highlighting the visualisation of family members becoming a collective, subsequently creating the silhouette of the artist

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