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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Allow me to introduce Harley and Parker. Harley is the tall one with the fabulous hair, and Parker is the short one with the sharp suits dress sense. Harley speaks in italics. They are BFFEs (Best Friends For Eternity because it sounds more ominous).
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the work i’ve made feels trapped, constrained, rationed even. one of these pieces uses just one sentence, which isn’t necessarily new but in this case it almost feels like i’m expecting words to run out, like toilet roll or handwash.
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Khansa Kadim is a neo-abstract figurative painter and graduate of Salford University. After taking a decade off from making work I have returned to art.
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Anyone who attended the ‘Feast of Beeston’ and ‘Welcome To My World’ exhibitions by Ian Pepper at BasementArtsProject will be familiar with an array of macabre characters such as Frankie Teabags and Edgar Allen Crow, and their distinct personalities.
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Day 5 – SWANS – noise – SWANS – not buying ticket for forthcoming Liverpool gig – dog – Lulu – at maximum noise – SLAVE – mum – CHER – HER noise – ISIS – THIS IS – GOD – young god
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We are still only four months into 2020 yet January seems like an absolute lifetime away.
Friday 31st January was an interesting day for many reasons; it being the second time in a fortnight that I had managed to extricate myself from Yorkshire in the name of art pursuits.
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This sculpture took its inspiration from trying to introduce a new internal form within an existing three dimensional object The idea focused on a non linear transecting stepped tunnel through a sphere.
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As time moves further into lockdown I found myself getting frustrated, probably at the same things I’ve always been frustrated with, disingenuousness, memes, lack of connection, political motivation towards the right and far right but it’s all magnified in the extreme.
I see also great gratitude, love and shared frustrations, again magnified.
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Day 4 – Age of the image – BBC – Marlboro Man – Justin Timberlake – Man of the woods – Paul Young – No Parlez – wild wild west – real men – no smoking – self portrait with last cigarette
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Week Two of Isolation Films by artist Clare Charnley
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Scott Senogles is a Church Musician. Organist and choirmaster of Mirfield Team Parish. He is also a Mixed media artist and sculptor based in Wakefield interested in improvisation & extemporisation as a process of free creativity throughout all his practices.
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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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‘Dwell Time’ is an award winning, not-for-profit arts publication reflecting on mental wellbeing. Produced and curated by Alice Bradshaw, Vanessa Haley & Lenny Szrama in collaboration with Penistone Line Partnership. Founded in 2018. Currently funded by Penistone Line Partnership, Community Rail Network, Northern & CrossCountry.
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Many years before BasementArtsProject, in fact quite a few before the Peripheral collective, before I left the Wirral I was involved as a volunteer with an art gallery called The Blackthorn. It was here that I had the pleasure of meeting and working with artist Chuck Hamilton and a couple of his colleagues from Savannah, Georgia USA. Chuck is the owner of the A.T Hun Gallery in Georgia. This post is for Chuck and The Hun
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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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