Posts in University of Leeds
Faces and Threads: A Visual Guide

A Visual Guide to Faces and Threads with links to essays…

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The Secrets of Our Success?

At our lowest ebb our own imagination can be a life raft, manifesting itself in a whole manner of different ways, carrying us along until at some point we may hopefully set our feet on dry land once more.

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Fray: Exhibition Guide & Text

Dismantle everything
and meet the edges (the edges bleed)

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Ars Longa Vita Brevis | Bruce Davies w/ Ruby Jean Waterhouse

Beware of Artists, they mix with all classes of society’

A popular meme from the internet of today allegedly has its origins in a warning from King Leopold of Belgium to Queen Victoria, when in 1845 he wrote

‘​​dealings with artists, for instance, require great prudence; they are acquainted with all classes of society, and for that reason are dangerous; they are hardly ever satisfied, and when you have too much to do with them, you are sure to have des ennuis’

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Have You Left Yet? Notes from the outside

I have always considered a mix of experience and enthusiasm in the programme to be a healthy thing, as experience riffs off enthusiasm and vice versa.

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Mellifluous Arcana: An essay

Over 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.

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Epigone

Through drawing, sculpture, film and 35mm projection this exhibition looks to explore the role of the epigone (an impersonator or apprentice) as each new piece is realised. Four drawings made at the beginning of the project act as proposals for four artworks. The drawings enclose the signature of the artist, offering a framework for how to follow suit. But the corresponding artworks are less defined in terms of their authorship.

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