Commissioned by EH Smith to mark their centenary and book launch, All the King’s Bricks is an allegorical installation that reimagines the brickmaking process through a cast of nursery rhyme characters. In this world, Humpty Dumpty’s fall leads not to tragedy but to innovation, as the King and his retinue take up the task of rebuilding a better wall. The King, ever noble, reforests the ravaged clay quarries and dons his robe with pride. His Men stomp out bricks in rhythmic formation, powered by the wind. The Horses carry the bricks high across the city, where they’re sun-dried in trotting huts. Fired in Humpty’s yolky core, emissions are filtered by cloud-shaped egg whites—a comic but pointed metaphor for clean industry. The resulting wall, built into the landscape itself, provides homes for all the King’s communities. With wit and imagination, the project turns each step of brick production into a fairy tale about sustainability, labour, and renewal.