LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.23 (Lou Hazelwood)

As time moves further into lockdown I found myself getting frustrated, probably at the same things I’ve always been frustrated with, disingenuousness, memes, lack of connection, political motivation towards the right and far right but it’s all magnified in the extreme.

I see also great gratitude, love and shared frustrations, again magnified.

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.18 (Dwell Time)

‘Dwell Time’ is an award winning, not-for-profit arts publication reflecting on mental wellbeing. Produced and curated by Alice Bradshaw, Vanessa Haley & Lenny Szrama in collaboration with Penistone Line Partnership. Founded in 2018. Currently funded by Penistone Line Partnership, Community Rail Network, Northern & CrossCountry.

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.17 (Chuck Hamilton)

Many years before BasementArtsProject, in fact quite a few before the Peripheral collective, before I left the Wirral I was involved as a volunteer with an art gallery called The Blackthorn. It was here that I had the pleasure of meeting and working with artist Chuck Hamilton and a couple of his colleagues from Savannah, Georgia USA. Chuck is the owner of the A.T Hun Gallery in Georgia. This post is for Chuck and The Hun

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.15 (Bruce Davies)

As part of the Lockdown Journal I decided that at some point I would try and post something about work that I have produced myself; hence the Twin Peaks quote on the last BasementArtsProject journal page ‘Next time you see me it won’t be me!’. This time it is not BasementArtsProject it is me as Bruce Davies.

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.12 (BasementArtsProject)

(Includes new work by Alan Dunn) Looking back on the last couple of weeks, it feels like the art world was ahead of the government in terms of the Coronavirus and forced a change of course before it would actually have happened.

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.8 (Rebecca Wade)

‘Sculpture from the Sofa’ is a series of short videos that aim to share knowledge and enthusiasm for sculpture, based on domestic objects collected over the last decade or so. This episode features a plaster cast of ‘L’Inconnue de la Seine’ (‘The Unknown Woman of the Seine’), its apocryphal origin story and the ways in which it has entered popular culture.

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