ANTI-SONNETS is a series of fourteen books which re-imagine the sonnet as a purely contextual force.
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As part of the Lockdown Journal I decided that at some point I would try and post something about work that I have produced myself; hence the Twin Peaks quote on the last BasementArtsProject journal page ‘Next time you see me it won’t be me!’. This time it is not BasementArtsProject it is me as Bruce Davies.
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The heading sounds so brutal, I seldom use such terminology and wish for a future beyond Lockdown.
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We jumped at the opportunity to write for BasementArtsProject who has supported us since we started back in 2018. For those who don’t know us, we are Beyond Photography, an experimental Photography and Image Making platform looking at new technologies as opportunities to open new doors in art making.
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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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The static presumed ‘nobility’ of an image has never bothered me so much as it does now. I think it’s because we are in forced states of being ‘stationary’, it’s got me thinking about the still and moving image and the slippage that occurs between them.
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Nolan Country' series.
56 photographs taken on a visit to Wales including a visit to The Rodd - Sidney Nolan Trust in October 2019.
58 ink on postcard drawings made between 07:11:19 and 02:01:20.
A hopeful attitude is applied to this research and with positivity I am finding out exactly what ‘family’ consists of in our new-found global togetherness.
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‘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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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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Since the outbreak of Covid 19 The Art House where I have a studio has been forced to close, and because of this they are offering two months where you do not need to pay the rent.
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Obie Butcher takes his inspiration from the natural world and has created a range of sculptures using many materials. He began sculpture by learning to wood carve before moving on to marble carving whilst living in Spain.
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Clare Charnley is a UK Visual artist who work is made in collaboration with the public and foreigners. Her recent work has included Brazilian artist Patricia Azevedo.
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‘I Clap For An Art’ by Phill Hopkins is Hopkins riffing on a recent work entitled ‘I Pray For An Art’.
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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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As we all move indoors for a few weeks of enforced isolation it is important to make sure we do not lose our connection with those things that make us happy, give us hope and allow us to share something of what it is that makes us human; our enduring spirit of creativity.
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I still love Leeds, I guess you always do when it’s your hometown. I studied my foundation at Jacob Kramer 1990-91 after doing Photography O & A levels at my school. I failed my art O level and am really glad I did!
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After a career as a Chartered Electrical Engineer I came to sculpting late. Following sculpting courses at Bradford and York colleges, including 7 years with the sculptor Dominic Hopkinson, I concentrated on stone carving and glass casting as my main artistic processes. My sculptures are abstract and often made from local stone.
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I remember vividly my very patient dad telling me how the gas-o-meter worked as we passed it regularly on Armley gyratory; it fascinated me as a child and still does now.
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Sometimes, without the need of confection for a plot, themes can emerge through the process of discussion and planning. I like to think that this is arts natural state, the continual process of discovery, research, reaction, change and consolidation, an alternative to the staid and retrogressive times in which we are currently living.
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