The Banshees of Beeston
Each morning, here on the corner of Dewsbury and Tunstall Road, we are awoken by the sounds of a lost soul crying in the streets outside. The crying is continual and punctuated with screams and shouts.
Pedal to the metal – Basement’s gotta’nother new exhibition
BasementArtsProject is finally a full-time concern. Recently I managed to find myself some funding that allowed me to give up my full-time job and turn my attention to two things that matter most to me. In no particular order of hierarchy; Art and Community.
Carving On The Corner 2023
Carving ‘On The Corner’ If you ever wondered what it would be like to carve some 260,000,000 year old limestone then this is the project for you. Each session lasts 1 hour and you will have 1-2-1 time with John and Keith who will direct you in the ways of direct carving, power tools and polishing.
Chloe Harris | Route Motif – place making through art
Chloe Harris is something of an itinerant artist. Moving between cities as dictated by her practice. Chloe’s work as a printmaker is generated by documenting and abstracting the cities of the UK.
Loane Bobillier: Squaring the Circle | Opening Night: Thursday 2nd March 2023. 5:30-8:30pm
Loane Bobilier is an international student at Leeds Arts University; hailing from Switzerland and arriving on these shores via China and Singapore, her work is a selection of satisfying geometric objects and shapes.
Have You Left Yet?
Whilst September may be the season of mellow fruitfulness, signaling the dying embers of a year, it is also the beginning of the academic year. And with this in mind, we bring you an exhibition by Slit Collective, a group of this year’s graduates from Leeds Arts University.
Carving ‘On The Corner’ FREE WORKSHOPS with BasementArtsProject
BasementArtsProject is running a series of carving workshops over the coming months. These will be taking place on the land where Jacob’s Ladder by artist Keith Ackerman is sited at the edge of Tunstall Road. With the sculpture finished and upright we are now working on the next phase of
Art Life: South of The River | From The Ground Up. Part 1 (Without Culture Within)
Part One in a series of articles looking at we how we must create culture for ourselves, and what the future, post-pandemic, holds for culture as an essential part of living in the 21st Century.
10 Years of BasementArtsProject | Celebrate by taking part
On Friday 2 April 2021 BasementArtsProject turned 10 years old. Our first ever project was ‘This Is Our House‘ by artist Kimbal Bumstead. As we threw open our kitchen door on that warm April evening 10 years ago, little did we know that we would be creating a project in
Peggy Tub Christmas warms the hearts of Hunslet
The Peggy Tub social club in Hunslet Carr hosted over 240 local children and their families for an acclaimed Santa’s Grotto over the last fortnight. At the start of the month, it had looked like the Coronavirus pandemic was going to stop the event – and weeks of preparation were