Today is essentially a free day. With the exhibition now fully installed and all of the tech stuff working properly, I can spend the day taking in some art elsewhere. I have arranged to meet Sylvia and Christiane at the Dusseldorf U building.
Read MoreThursday 22nd October
Today I am meeting Viennese artists Christiana Spatt and Maria Hanl at the Torhaus. Maria’s work is a film piece and has already been installed, Christiane is a painter and photographer and her work is the final piece in the Corona jigsaw.
Read MoreThe city streets do not seem to be very busy with cars. There is a hire system for electric scooters, they are everywhere and people just leave them parked at the edge of the pavement. Bikes are also popular. Dortmund feels like a city with an environmental conscience.
Read MoreIn the scene pictured, here, the ”Feeders” take parcels from the metal or cardboard containers (pictured on both side of the print) onto the belt at a constant pace, starting the operations.
Read Morehe source material, a photo of a wrapped garden ornamental pedestal, was sent to me by my American pal and painter Peter Waite.
Read MoreFell:
Northern England and Scottish
a. a mountain, hill, or tract of upland moor
b. (in combination) fell-walking
Word origin
from Old Norse fjall; related to Old High German felis rock
Read MoreWas the sky ever so blue over my Ruhr Valley? Sun. It is warm. But there is no clatter of dishes from the balconies, no humming of people's voices in the cafés. The roaring of the airplane engines is also missing. The honking and screeching, the pattering and stomping, the too loud music of the neighbour, the annoying sound of the leaf blower.
Read MoreHoward Eaglestone is an artist with more than 30 years experience teaching Art. He was Head of Painting on BA Hons Fine Art & Design at Bradford College.
Read More“…the situation we find ourselves in, here in the 21st Century, is a direct result of our colonial history and there is a bill that will always be due!”
Read MoreIan Pepper is a multidisciplinary figurative artist inspired by New Scottish Painting, German Expressionism and Outsider Art. He is chiefly interested in exploring human relationships and the ways in which people gather together to form different cultural groups.
Read MoreI think it is highly disingenuous and manipulative to suggest that the NHS coped with the pandemic when workers died and doctors, nurses, care workers and others have to work long hours in dangerous and distressing conditions, often without protection.
Read MoreAlabaster for my brother’s 60th, made during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown.
Read MoreAs we move further into 2020 it is time for an update on what is happening here at BasementArtsProject with regards to our programme.
Read MoreBasementArtsProject’s first encounter with Michael Borkowsky was in 2014 when he was one of the artists to exhibit in Jamestown, New York with SCIBase; a collaborative project between Liverpool based SCI collective and BasementArtsProject. Since then Borkowsky has exhibited twice at BasementArtsProject.
Read MoreDay 6 – Phil Collins – Altered Images – Die Antwoord – Carla Bozulich – Face Value – Donker Mag – BITE – Septic Death – Pusmort – home – virus – grey – black – white – sick
Read MoreAllow me to introduce Harley and Parker. Harley is the tall one with the fabulous hair, and Parker is the short one with the sharp suits dress sense. Harley speaks in italics. They are BFFEs (Best Friends For Eternity because it sounds more ominous).
Read Morethe work i’ve made feels trapped, constrained, rationed even. one of these pieces uses just one sentence, which isn’t necessarily new but in this case it almost feels like i’m expecting words to run out, like toilet roll or handwash.
Read MoreKhansa Kadim is a neo-abstract figurative painter and graduate of Salford University. After taking a decade off from making work I have returned to art.
Read MoreWe are still only four months into 2020 yet January seems like an absolute lifetime away.
Friday 31st January was an interesting day for many reasons; it being the second time in a fortnight that I had managed to extricate myself from Yorkshire in the name of art pursuits.
Read MoreAs part of the Lockdown Journal I decided that at some point I would try and post something about work that I have produced myself; hence the Twin Peaks quote on the last BasementArtsProject journal page ‘Next time you see me it won’t be me!’. This time it is not BasementArtsProject it is me as Bruce Davies.
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