The Metaphorical Museum and The Underworld comes to Beeston
Yet another new exhibition opens at BasementArtsProject on Thursday 1st June at 5:30pm All welcome, just turn up
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.
Art Life: South of The River | Reclaiming Time and Space
In 2014, after three years of BasementArtsProject being a thing, I was visited by two London curators from an organisation called Sluice. They had contacted me via the email and asked if wouldn’t mind being interviewed for their project, touring grassroots and independent arts venues around the country. Of course,
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.
BasementArtsProject: View From The Corner – Notes On A Pandemic 3
It is funny how opinions change based on situations. Not for any reason other than sometimes things happen that allow people to take a different perspective. A recent poll in The Times suggests an interesting viewpoint on what is considered useful during a pandemic. The top five non-essential jobs ran
BasementArtsProject: View From The Corner – Notes On A Pandemic 2 (Night)
The stillness of a pandemic night is unnerving having spent seventeen of my twenty years in Leeds ‘On The Corner’ of Tunstall and Dewsbury Road. Where once the sound of car engines being gunned at the junction, bowel juddering bass from others sat with engines idling outside the garage, arguing
FREE LUNCH at BasementArtsProject this Thurs. BOOK NOW
Over the last twelve months BasementArtsProject has been working with four artists whose ages range from 21 – 61. The project has been an educational experience for everyone involved, including myself as curator and project manager, and is still ongoing. On The Corner is a project that involves five individual
A House Within A Home by Phill Hopkins | Pitched by Jadene Imbusch | Collaborations On The Corner
‘A House Within A Home’ by Phill Hopkins and ‘Pitched’ by Jadene Imbusch are two solo exhibitions that look at the subject of what makes a House a Home and the distinctions between the two concepts.