Beneath the surface of the locked down world the oxygen is running low. The tiny life support capsules sustaining our presence in the airless vacuum of millions of hard-drives, can only sustain three dimensional life for so long. It is time to head for the surface, but not too rapidly.
Read MoreSo how do we get past the problem of perception, access and desire. Life is about dialogue, that is how we learn. We educate ourselves through experience, we find the edge of our zone of comfort and understanding and we push past it, through to what lies beyond.
Read MoreThe question is how to achieve those elusive steps to improvement, how to train your vision on a new horizon and attempt to take people with you on that journey.
Read More. . . the fact that there is much art out there that most of us will never be able to experience firsthand does not mean that there is no point in trying to experience or understand it.
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 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 MoreSometimes, without the need of confection for a plot, themes can emerge through the process of discussion and planning. I like to think that this is arts natural state, the continual process of discovery, research, reaction, change and consolidation, an alternative to the staid and retrogressive times in which we are currently living.
Read MoreThroughout my second year, I’d been undertaking a series of works that related to home and my family, and for part of the module I was required to research an art space that related to my work, and visualise my pieces within in it.
Read MoreSince we began this venture nearly a decade ago, we have been diligently chipping away underground, creating a place that serves both artists and community alike. Over time the project has become the foundation for a broad set of ideas that address many issues in art whilst speaking directly to the concerns of the local community.
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