And 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 MoreThe ArtRun began life as a simple idea; the commitment to, and execution of, an idea. For Debs, the originator of the concept, this meant using a physical activity to consider what it means to be an artist. Debs is not an artist, but neither is she a runner so both aspects of the idea were essentially a meditation on perseverance.
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