Was the sky ever so blue over my Ruhr Valley? Sun. It is warm. But there is no clatter of dishes from the balconies, no humming of people's voices in the cafés. The roaring of the airplane engines is also missing. The honking and screeching, the pattering and stomping, the too loud music of the neighbour, the annoying sound of the leaf blower.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreHoward Eaglestone is an artist with more than 30 years experience teaching Art. He was Head of Painting on BA Hons Fine Art & Design at Bradford College.
Read MoreIan Pepper is a multidisciplinary figurative artist inspired by New Scottish Painting, German Expressionism and Outsider Art. He is chiefly interested in exploring human relationships and the ways in which people gather together to form different cultural groups.
Read MoreAs we move further into 2020 it is time for an update on what is happening here at BasementArtsProject with regards to our programme.
Read MoreBasementArtsProject’s first encounter with Michael Borkowsky was in 2014 when he was one of the artists to exhibit in Jamestown, New York with SCIBase; a collaborative project between Liverpool based SCI collective and BasementArtsProject. Since then Borkowsky has exhibited twice at BasementArtsProject.
Read MoreThe End
About a day before Easter we were awoken to strange noises coming from the direction of the window that had the scaffolding outside—as if workers were working on it—unlikely in the lockdown.
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