Posts tagged sculpture
Excavating The Future

The unusual texture of printed plastic, slightly warped due to AI filling in gaps, allow onlookers to discern between works cast in pewter and jesmonite. These ‘copies’ of works usually guarded behind glass evoke cultural memory yet leave viewers with a sense of remembrance just out of reach

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That Which We Thought We Knew: The studio practice of Jeffrey Knopf

…my process is a hit and run technique, I can be anywhere and I might see something that grabs my attention, a shape a form that is different so like a photographer I want to capture that moment but instead of it being two dimensional it’s in the three dimensional realm.

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A Tale of Three Birthdays (and some reminiscences)

2023 was, for me, a tale of two birthdays. It was the year that I turned fifty-one and resigned from my job of nineteen years with the Henry Moore Institute. It also represented thirty-four years, to the day, since I took on my first proper job, beyond a paper round, with Sainsbury’s.

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Jacob's Ladder: an impact report of sorts

Whilst I always understood that Jacob’s Ladder would be a labour of love for both myself, as BasementArtsProject: the commissioning organisation, and for sculptor Keith Ackerman, I knew that it would definitely take longer than the one-hundred days of the Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019. But we never imagined the three year odyssey that it would become thanks to the C***d pandemic lockdowns.

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Looking To The Future: Emily

For the last few months I have been in discussion with artist Paul Digby about his latest sculpture project ‘Looking To The Future: Emily’, and talking about BasementArtsProject’s position as co-creator on it. 

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Entering the decompression chamber and a new era

Beneath the surface of the locked down world the oxygen is running low. The tiny life support capsules sustaining our presence in the airless vacuum of millions of hard-drives, can only sustain three dimensional life for so long. It is time to head for the surface, but not too rapidly.

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Abandonment Issues and the Language of Art

So how do we get past the problem of perception, access and desire. Life is about dialogue, that is how we learn. We educate ourselves through experience, we find the edge of our zone of comfort and understanding and we push past it, through to what lies beyond.

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Art From The Ground Up: Not Letting Culture Lose!

So, 2023 is still a thing; by which I mean Leeds2023. Despite the fact that Brexit put paid to any opportunity for UK cities to present their wares on a European stage, Leeds has committed itself to ensuring that 2023 remains an important year for the city in terms of culture; despite the funding and exposure being cut off by political dispute.

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Back To Life, Back To Reality

When we lose a sense of purpose we lose our sense of the future, and that is where hopelessness slips into the void and feeds our deepest fears. That is the point at which the sun sets never to rise again.

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Art From The Ground Up: A Post-Pandemic Future

The question is how to achieve those elusive steps to improvement, how to train your vision on a new horizon and attempt to take people with you on that journey.

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BasementArtsProject | DECADE: A Conversation with Kimbal Bumstead #3

there is something really fascinating about revisiting, reworking and stripping back. Sanding down the floor of the studio, peeling back layers of varnish and paint that had become caked on the floor was both an incredibly satisfying feeling - like cleaning a dirty kitchen and then seeing it sparkle

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.52 (BasementArtsProject)

There is something rather disheartening about opening up my computer each day to a raft of reminders and notifications telling me that I should be installing, opening, taking down yet another exhibition that has not happened.

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.46 (Raksha Patel)

This series of drawings were made during coronavirus lockdown and are based on Henry Moore’s Three Standing Figures, which are based in my immediate locality and stand overlooking the quietness of the lake in Battersea Park.

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.45 (Keith Ackerman)

This lockdown casting has another link with my Mum, in that I discussed the design for this triptych while sitting with her overlooking the sea at Runswick Bay in September 2013.

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THERE IS NEVER A GOOD TIME TO PROTEST!

“…the situation we find ourselves in, here in the 21st Century, is a direct result of our colonial history and there is a bill that will always be due!”

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.42 (Curatorspace)

CuratorSpace Courses is a course and workshop listing platform which we've built to let artists and arts professionals move their IRL courses online and list them for free during the pandemic. We’re hoping it will make it easier for people to make a living in these difficult times, as well as giving others a chance to learn something new while they are in lockdown or self isolating.

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LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19 NEWSLETTER & PROGRAMME UPDATE (May 2020)

As we move further into 2020 it is time for an update on what is happening here at BasementArtsProject with regards to our programme.

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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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