Hypogeal: Book Launch and Exhibition
Red Stripe Blue (2017) Patrick Morrissey
BOOK LAUNCH
Tuesday 7th November | 7.30pm – 9.30pm
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Thursday 9th November | 11am - 2pm
Friday 10th November | 11am - 2pm
Monday 13th November | 11am – 2pm
Thursday 16th November | 11am - 2pm
Friday 17th November | 11am - 2pm
Monday 1st September | 11am – 2pm
‘Hypogeal’ is a type of germination that occurs underground without exposure to sunlight for photosynthesis, allowing a plant to grow until it reaches the surface. During the hypogeal stage the plant will grow a single leaf seed which sets the template for the characteristics of the plant when it surfaces above the ground.
Since April 2011 BasementArtsProject have been working with established artists and lecturers, recent graduates, undergraduates and members of the community on a vast array of projects here in the South Leeds area, as well as in places such as Liverpool, London, Stockholm and Jamestown; New York. This book and accompanying exhibition will look back at the work presented throughout 2015 as BasementArtsProject turned five years old.
The exhibition features work by Alan Dunn, Phill Hopkins, Dominic Hopkinson, Lens & Chisel, Samela Otoviç, Patrick Morrissey, Giulia Ricci and Ryan Riddington
The book features essays by Derek Horton, David Cotton, Anna Ratcliffe, Alan Dunn and Alistair Kaye, Dominic Hopkinson and Bruce Davies.
BasementArtsProject would like to thank Leeds Art Fund and posthumously Ben Read for the support that they have shown us since the very beginning. This book was produced with the support of Leeds Art Fund.
Artists
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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.
WEBSITE: www.alandunn67.co.uk
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/alandunn67/
TWITTER @alandunn67
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Phill Hopkins was born in Bristol in 1961 and has been an artist based in Leeds since graduating from Goldsmiths College, London in 1985. His practise is very cross-disciplinary and includes the use of drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and installation.
He exhibits both nationally and internationally, with recent shows at BasementArtsProject, Leeds; Pangolin Gallery, London; 3rd on 3rd Gallery, New York USA; Galerie Youn, Canada and Cross Gallery, Australia. His work resides in various public and private collections including The Imperial War Museum, London, Nanjing Baijia Lake International Culture Investment Group, China, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Leeds Art Gallery, Doncaster Museums & Art Gallery, Stadt Dortmund, Germany, The Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemet, Hungary.
WEBSITE: www.phill-hopkins.co.uk
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Dominic Hopkinson (b. 1969) is an artist whose work addresses the connections between scientific and mathematical principles and concepts through the disciplines of drawing, sculpture and sculptural installations. Having worked as a studio assistant for Peter Randall-Page Hopkinson’s own work is an ongoing study of the geometry of abstract forms and the beauty and design found in nature.
Hopkinson is also one of the founding members of The Superposition, a collective responsible for many projects with a foot in the worlds of art, science and maths. Recent commissions for this group have seen their work realised at Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds University and Deutsche Electron Synchrotron; University of Hamburg
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Keith Ackerman. After a career as a Chartered Electrical Engineer I came to sculpting late. Following sculpting courses at Bradford and York colleges, including 7 years with the sculptor Dominic Hopkinson, I concentrated on stone carving and glass casting as my main artistic processes. My sculptures are abstract and often made from local stone
9th November 2015 11th March 2016 – MantlePiece with Adam Glatherine as Lens&Chisel
BasementArtsProject, Leeds
26th April – 11th May 2014 Exhibition with Adam Glatherine as Lens&Chisel
The Old Library, Sinai Synagogue Leeds
3rd may – 18th May 2012 Group Sculpture Exhibition
Holy Trinity Church, Goodram Gate, York
03 December 2011 – 29 January 2012 SIX INCH CUBE
South Square Centre, South Square, Thornton
9th – 16th June 2010 Group Sculpture Exhibition
Holy Trinity Church, Goodram Gate, YorkAdam 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
WEBSITE: www.lensand.org
CONTACT: adam@lensandchisel.com
TWITTER: @LensAndChisel
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/adamglatherine/
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Samela Otoviç (b. 1996) is a recent BA hons Fine Art graduate of Leeds Beckett University. An artist whose achievements are as prolific as her ideas she had by graduation won the Edna Lumb Travel Prize, curated a group show in Albania and undertaken three solo exhibitions with BasementArtsProject. We eagerly await what comes next . . .
Recent exhibitions include:
In Addition (group show, exhibiting artist) & Model, Leeds 2014
In The Seam (group show, exhibiting artist) Link Gallery, Manchester 2015
Duck Duck Goose (solo exhibition) DIY Gallery, Leeds 2015
Lost in Translation (curator of group show) Albania 2015
Four Words (exhibiting artist) Liverpool 2016
Leap (Fine Art Degree Show) Leeds Beckett University 2016Edna Lumb Travel Prize 2015 – Winner
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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.
Recent group exhibitions include Shake the Bottle: Contemporary Photography and Sexual Identity at Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, A Lover’s Discord at Kontor Projects, Copenhagen and the Annual Pride exhibition at Clifford Chance, London.
Leeds Art Fund
This book was made possible thanx to a grant from the Leeds Art Fund