In a time long before the advent of the mobile phone and the ability to document the world in real time, there was artists. During the lockdown of 2020, as the outside world was divested of the majority of its population, artists became once again, just as in times of war, the people who remained to document a dangerous world that threatened our humanity.
Read MoreThis week I made an important discovery. I have been looking at this painting for about 8 years, I think I made it in 2012. It never felt right, there was always something missing or lacking in the composition.
Read MoreFrom the line stacking parcels, you can see Lorries arrive, people taking them to be sent along the lines. This perspective is from where Me and others work as “scanners”. It assumes viewers as fellow workers
Read MoreOn a freezing cold Sunday afternoon I met up with Abdullah Adekola for a socially distanced walk through Middleton Woods where we discussed his ‘Say It With Your Chest’ project: A black-led poetry collective.
Read MoreIt just so happened that back in June of the foul and pestilential year of our Lord that was Two Thousand and Twenty, having already put a programme in place, I had been having discussions with Kimbal Bumstead, the first artist with whom I worked as BasementArtsProject. The 2020 programme has had to be put back into 2021 but now has the addition of a celebratory 10 year project.
Read MoreDuring my time here in Leeds I have started developing a series of prints based on the busyness of my daily life with Amazon in contrast to that of my locked down experience as an artist.
Read MoreNow as we enter Lockdown 2 the sequel we relaunch our online presence with some images of new work by past BasementArtsProject exhibitor Pippa Eason.
Read MoreTheir soft, white putty faces mumble incoherent diatribes against the working classes, people of colour and anyone else that they cannot identify with, whilst their smooth callous-free hands sign the papers that send dying and disabled people back to jobs as a form of respite care.
Read MoreIn the midst of lockdown I felt like I should have been reading, disappearing in to worlds, escaping, but I needed to be present too. So I found that I could get lost in box sets, subtitled box sets, the best of both worlds present but not, reading and listening consumed as a whole.
Read MoreThere is something rather disheartening about opening up my computer each day to a raft of reminders and notifications telling me that I should be installing, opening, taking down yet another exhibition that has not happened.
Read MoreNotes From a Covid City
Read MoreI still stand by my original thought that I was happy to see Colston being toppled into the Bristol harbour last month; 150 years being long enough to gain the kind of status that will ensure people are angry at its removal by such process that it was.
Read MoreFirstly, in introducing this post, I would like to point out that much has been said in various quarters over the last few months about how to spend time when furloughed.
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 MoreThis 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
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 MoreMarch 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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