Glyn Brewerton
Glyn Brewerton is an artist, illustrator and educator based in Cringleford, Norwich, specialising in drawing and collage. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He graduated from Swindon College with a BA (Hons) in Design/Illustration, went on to an MA in Communication Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, and gained a PGCE in Higher Education Professional Practice from Coventry University.
He is a Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Illustration course at Norwich University of the Arts. He is passionate about working with communities, and would like to do more creative project work that engages the public in rural areas.
He has exhibited nationally and internationally, in the UK and in Portugal.
In 2025 he was a Mawddach Artist in Residence in Wales, where he made work exploring repurposed and abandoned churches as relics of shifted communities. The collages were later shown in his solo exhibition Church Going at Hungate Medieval Arts, St Peter's Church, Norwich, in May 2026.
Artist Statement
I am an artist and illustrator who makes work that shows the traces and transient nature of human activity in urban and rural landscapes. I enjoy the process of working on location, making work that uses fieldwork and primary methods of research to inform illustration, with a more direct focus on illustration and heritage.
I enjoy wrestling with the chaos that comes with experimenting with drawn ink marks, cut-out recycled drawings and rejected experiments, and from the chaos I love the challenge of figuring out how to achieve some kind of systematised order.
I am a sucker for abandoned, ruined buildings: what Brian Dillon, in his book of the same name, described as "Ruin Lust" (Dillon, 2014), a fascination or obsession with derelict or defunct buildings. I am particularly interested in how buildings, such as churches, industrial buildings and farms, often built from materials sourced from their natural surroundings, connect with the morphology of the rural landscape; and how buildings become collages that bring together physical and narrative histories.
