Upon entering ‘The Basement’ the first thing you encounter is someone trying to zip themselves into a suitcase accompanied by the bold statement ‘Pack Your Shit and LEAVE’, scrawled on the wall as if in anger or madness. Welcome to the surreal absurdist world of Phee Jeffreries.
Read MoreThe Metaphorical Museum really exists, we just don’t realise it. Just like our memories It exists in a place where time, the 4th dimension, collapses and inhabits the 3 dimensions of physical space. It is a place of invention, innovation, excavation, examination and learning.
Read MoreCrazy Eddie can often be found sat in his local coffee shop with a random object before him on the table. The job of understanding comes from observation. Edward Mortimer has been creating sculptural artworks for some thirty years. His works are simultaneously humorous, nightmarish and weird but crucially, always well observed.
Read MoreThe work of Lou Hazelwood and Chris Graham, when working as a duo, seeks to make sense of the slippage from one political and philosophical state to another.
Read MoreAs we emerge into a post-pandemic world, rubbing our eyes and blinking in the sunlight, the importance of the root system becomes apparent. The things that we thought may not survive did in fact just die back for an exceptionally long winter.
Read MoreOver the last eight years BasementArtsProject has become something of an immersive project. It is immersive for the viewer in so much as when you enter this subterranean space you become at one with it, the outside world temporarily an irrelevance.
Read More‘MantlePiece’ is a sculptural installation by Leeds based duo Lens&Chisel; sculptor Keith Ackerman and light artist / photographer Adam Glatherine. Gallery of Images
Read More“Daily’ the Basement Arts exhibition of the work of Phill Hopkins, is entered through a lively domestic kitchen, you open an unassuming paneled door and descend steep stone steps into another world. Above that door there should be a warning, “THROUGH ME YOU ENTER INTO THE CITY OF WOES.” (2)
Read MoreThe city of Leeds is home to three major educational establishments that deal in some way with art education. Over the years these institutions have served as a Launchpad for the careers of some of the most famous British artists of the twentieth century such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Damien Hirst. They have also played host to the radical ideas and practices of the likes of George Brecht, Robert Filiou, Allan Kaprow and Yoko Ono
Read MoreA lecture by Dominic Hopkinson
Sunday 26.04.15 | 3pm – 4pm
(The following lecture and tour of the work took place on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the cool subterranean exhibition space that is BasementArtsProject)
Read MoreWhen I first encountered Alistair’s works it was strikingly apparent to me that he was meddling with paradoxes, playing, flirting & enticing viewers to decode this special language he had built from his practice.
Read MoreAlistair Woods has something of a Steptoe and Son approach to the production of artworks. For Woods the hedgerows, back alleys and gutters are a veritable treasure trove of nostalgia, a world in which objects relinquish their histories and meaning in favour of a new lease of life.
Read MoreSCIBase was established in 2012 as a collaborative vehicle for artists associated with SCI (Soup Collective International), based primarily in the Northwest of England and run by Wendy Williams in collaboration with BasementArtsProject Leeds.
Read MoreAs we leave behind the port of Liverpool and bring the work of SCIBase to Leeds for one final outing in 2012, ‘INHOSPITABLE 1.1’ becomes the marriage of three distinct exhibitions into one coherent narrative, driven by the input of all involved. Along with the shift in cities comes a shift in style and a new set of rules and curatorial concerns emerge.
Read MoreWhat began as a slightly tongue in cheek title for the second and third in a series of exhibitions has, for me at least, become a point of serious consideration. Originally the title INHOSPITABLE referred to the site for the second SCIBase exhibition at the Bridewell Studios, a former police station, on the edge of Liverpool city centre.
Read MoreAnd so it is that on a warm sunny morning in late March, with the smell of oil paint and turps hanging on the air, BasementArtsProject turns a corner and enters a new phase in its existence.
Read MoreWe arrived in Stockholm on a Wednesday afternoon in flurries of snow and a bitingly cold wind. Our arrival marked the end of four months of collaborative planning, mainly via e-mail, between BasementArtsProject, Leeds and SCI based in the Northwest.
Read MoreIn 2010 artists Chris Daniels and Maria Anastassiou were the recipients of the Deutsche Bank Award for Art at the Royal College of Art for their project Unravel - the longest hand painted film in Great Britain.
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