. . . the fact that there is much art out there that most of us will never be able to experience firsthand does not mean that there is no point in trying to experience or understand it.
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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.
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March 2020, live updates from The sounds of ideas forming, Volume 2 (Instagram - @alandunn67), exploring the fragility and tangibility of vinyl sleeves in domestic settings. Recent instalments:
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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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Ian 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.
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The of Ideas forming. Sleeve du Jour: Day 7
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This post from the studio of Ian Pepper, focuses on another aspect of his work which involves collage:
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The folks at Beyond Photography have devised a downloadable publication to assist people with their creativity during the lockdown period.
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Day 6 – Phil Collins – Altered Images – Die Antwoord – Carla Bozulich – Face Value – Donker Mag – BITE – Septic Death – Pusmort – home – virus – grey – black – white – sick
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Beyond Photography is an exhibition, creative hub and online platform for publicising the work of unknown artists whose work push the medium photography, literally, Beyond Photography.
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(Includes new work by Alan Dunn) Looking back on the last couple of weeks, it feels like the art world was ahead of the government in terms of the Coronavirus and forced a change of course before it would actually have happened.
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Day 2 – Status Quo – Rocking all over the world – dog – Lulu – all over – the world – dirty water – 1977 – punk – virus – LCD font – ape – planet – a lover
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2020, live updates from The sounds of ideas forming, Volume 2 (Instagram - @alandunn67), exploring the fragility and tangibility of vinyl sleeves in domestic settings. Recent instalments:
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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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As the city fills with art world luminaries in some of the swankiest venues London has to offer, so to do the train arches and un-let spaces with artists whose worlds are similarly governed by this most strange and incomprehensible of life choices.
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Welcome to My World is the second exhibition in 2016 that has been led by artist and musician Ian Pepper, and it comes on the back of the Leeds Inspired funded project A Feast of Beeston.
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…the sedimentary nature of her creative practice seemed to run parallel with another strand of thought, present in much of her work, surrounding kitsch objects; that which is cheap and mass produced.
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For BasementArtsProject, Borkowsky proposed the re-creation of two artist’s studios; one of whom he had met before but did not know well, and the other whom he had never met at all, but both of whom he has exhibited alongside in other circumstances.
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In January 2016 artist Ian Pepper began a project, commissioned by BasementArtsProject and supported by Leeds Inspired, to realise an exhibition that had at its core life in South Leeds.
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When 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.
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