2023 was, for me, a tale of two birthdays. It was the year that I turned fifty-one and resigned from my job of nineteen years with the Henry Moore Institute. It also represented thirty-four years, to the day, since I took on my first proper job, beyond a paper round, with Sainsbury’s.
Read MoreWhilst I always understood that Jacob’s Ladder would be a labour of love for both myself, as BasementArtsProject: the commissioning organisation, and for sculptor Keith Ackerman, I knew that it would definitely take longer than the one-hundred days of the Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019. But we never imagined the three year odyssey that it would become thanks to the C***d pandemic lockdowns.
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 MoreCuratorSpace 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.
Read MoreI 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.
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 More‘On The Corner’ is a project that is truly intergenerational and is aimed at promoting ideas of art as an important and integral part of the fabric of our society. We ignore art at our peril.
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