BasementArtsProject at Depot Art Studios present . . .
I. A City of Two Tales (Leeds to Manchester)
PREVIEW
Thursday 12th April | 7.30pm – 9.30pm
The last five years have seen a significant period of development for both BasementArtsProject; Leeds and Depot Art Studios; Manchester. Defined over time by a sense of mutual support for each others projects A Tale of Two Cities / A City of Two Tales will be the first opportunity for these two organisations to realise a project that cements a long term working relationship.
Featuring the work of Paul Digby, Alan Dunn & Martyn Rainford w/ Jack Wolff & Laure Ferraris, Pippa Eason, Adam Glatherine and Ryan Riddington
Exhibition Open
Saturday 14th April | 2pm – 4pm
Sunday 15th April | 2pm – 4pm
Saturday 21st April | 2pm – 4pm
Sunday 22nd April | 2pm – 4pm
For direct bus connections betweenLeeds and Manchester (£9.50 return) visit: http://www.cityzap.co.uk/
About The Artists…
Paul Digby
Paul was born in Grimsby North Lincolnshire and studied in Norwich University of the Arts and the Bretton Hall/University of Leeds. Paul lived in London before returning to Leeds, where he is based with his family.
He has regularly taught across education and he formerly sat on the Steering Group for the Yorkshire and Humber Visual Arts Network, part of the UK's Contemporary Visual Arts Network.
Alan Dunn & Martyn Rainford
(w/ Jack Wolff & Laure Ferraris)
Dr Alan Dunn is an artist, curator and publisher educated at Glasgow School of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago; he is also a lecturer in Fine Art and MA Art & Design at Leeds Beckett University. He works with sound and digital billboards and has developed projects for the ICA (London), Liverpool Art Prize and BBC Radio 3.
Pippa Eason
Pippa Eason (b.1993), is currently a Leeds based artist, and has recently finished her MA in Art & Design, at Leeds Beckett University. She has completed several shows this year, alongside an internship at The Henry Moore Institute. She is part of a collective named TPA, merging Liverpool and Leeds together. Recent exhibitions have included Penny Idol$: Whitecloth Galleries, Leeds; De-CON-Struction: Duke Street Studios, Liverpool; Work-In-Progress: Birds Yard, Leeds; About Time: The Brunswick, Leeds; Threshold Festival, Liverpool.
Pippa Eason also worked on the #7SecondTour publication by BasementArtsProject in conjunction with British Art Show 8, Leeds
Adam Glatherine
Adam Glatherine (b. UK 1983) is a Leeds based interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses our perception of what it means to exist. Through the creation of illuminated forms his work intuitively explores our connection with the physical world and how we interact with it. Glatherine works as much with scientists as he does with other artists, due to the natural overlap in both the theory and practice of artistic exploration. Glatherine’s practice involves, amongst other things, light installations, photography and sculptural forms.
His exhibitions and projects have included Northern Light (w/ Dave Lynch): Corn Exchange, Leeds 2016; Light Boat - Light Up Lancaster: Lancaster, UK 2016; Night of Heritage Light (NoHL) - Fountains Abbey (w/ David Battersby): Fountains Abbey, Leeds 2016; MantlePiece (w/ Keith Ackerman as Lens&Chisel): BasementArtsProject, Leeds 2015; Abstract Landscapes (w/ Keith Ackerman as Lens&Chisel); Old Library Gallery, Leeds 2014
Lighting Design Award for NoHL (w/ David Battersby) Heritage Project of the Year 2016 http://awards.lighting.co.uk/winners-2016
darc Award - NoHL (w/ David Battersby) Best Creative Lighting Event http://darcawards.com/architectural/night-of-heritage-light-uk/
Glatherine also lectures and writes on the subject of lighting design
Ryan Riddington
Ryan Riddington (b. Rinteln, 1978) grew up in various locations in England and West Germany due to his Army upbringing. A keen drawer he later became fascinated with using found objects, leading to a degree in Fine Art Sculpture at Loughborough University School of Art and Design. After teaching English and exhibiting with the British Council in St. Petersburg he moved to Leeds in 2002 and worked as an invigilator at the Henry Moore Institute. This exposed him to many varying approaches to sculpture and its reception. In 2008 he attended Slade School of Fine Art, London taking an MFA in Sculpture. Since then he has remained London-based.
He has had solo displays at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery and Fred, London and his work has featured in Granta, Chroma, Pink Mince, SMBHmag and ibook 100 London Artists. A profile of his work under the theme Artist Identity is to feature in the Birkbeck University online journal Dandelion.
Images: Alistair Woods
