Posts in Lockdown Journal
LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.48 (Timothy Forster)

Fell:

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

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.47 (Silvia Liebig)

Was 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.

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.46 (Raksha Patel)

This series of drawings were made during coronavirus lockdown and are based on Henry Moore’s Three Standing Figures, which are based in my immediate locality and stand overlooking the quietness of the lake in Battersea Park.

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.45 (Keith Ackerman)

This lockdown casting has another link with my Mum, in that I discussed the design for this triptych while sitting with her overlooking the sea at Runswick Bay in September 2013.

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.43 (Alan Dunn)

March 2020, live updates from The sounds of ideas forming, Volume 2 (Instagram - @alandunn67), exploring the fragility and tangibility of vinyl sleeves in domestic settings. Recent instalments:

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THERE IS NEVER A GOOD TIME TO PROTEST!

“…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!”

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.42 (Curatorspace)

CuratorSpace Courses is a course and workshop listing platform which we've built to let artists and arts professionals move their IRL courses online and list them for free during the pandemic. We’re hoping it will make it easier for people to make a living in these difficult times, as well as giving others a chance to learn something new while they are in lockdown or self isolating.

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.41 (Ian Pepper)

Ian 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.

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.40 (Howard Eaglestone)

I 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.

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19 NEWSLETTER & PROGRAMME UPDATE (May 2020)

As we move further into 2020 it is time for an update on what is happening here at BasementArtsProject with regards to our programme.

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.33 (Michael Borkowsky)

BasementArtsProject’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.

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