Our current exhibition at BasementArtsProject is open every Tuesday and Thursday 10am-2pm and by appointment until 31st January.

Come and visit us. Free tea and coffee available… always

28 Back Burton Terrace, Leeds, LS11 5JH

2025 in Review Looking Forward Looking Back What a year 2025 turned out to be.

New Hypogeal post up on Substack
Read here
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And also a piece by longstanding friend of. One and associate of Basement Phill Hopkins
Landscape II (I-phone)

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And ‘Cumulative (I) by Lou Hazelwood
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Up for auction in aid of the BasementArtsProject programme
Luminous Canopy by Adam Glatherine place a bid here:

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10 artists from Basement’s 14 year history have each donated an artwork to auction on behalf of BasementArtsProject to raise funds for the continuance of our programme into the future
Place a bid here…

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10 artists from Basement’s 14 year history have each donated an artwork to auction on behalf of BasementArtsProject to raise funds for the continuance of our programme into the future
Place a bid here…

basementartsproject.indy.auction/auctions/692...

10 artists from Basement’s 14 year history have each donated an artwork to auction on behalf of BasementArtsProject to raise funds for the continuance of our programme into the future
Place a bid here…

basementartsproject.indy.auction/auctions/692...

10 artists from Basement’s 14 year history have each donated an artwork to auction on behalf of BasementArtsProject to raise funds for the continuance of our programme into the future
Place a bid here…

basementartsproject.indy.auction/auctions/692...

10 artists from Basement’s 14 year history have each donated an artwork to auction on behalf of BasementArtsProject to raise funds for the continuance of our programme into the future
Place a bid here…

basementartsproject.indy.auction/auctions/692...

No4 – Variations – Mutations – Adjustments – No 28 Alan Dunn & Martyn Rainford

A new free post up on Hypogeal, our online journal: this time featuring long-time collaborator and friend Alan Dunn and his first project with us in 2012

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Yes, it is that time of an exhibition again when we turn our attention to the closing event: our Lunchtime Conversation with the incumbent artist. So, if you want to get the 4-1-1 on this thought provoking exhibition then book your ticket using the link

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AI Interlude II Parent Edition

PAID READ

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AI Interlude Artificial Intelligence vs Actual Creativity

This months Hypogeal articles are available now online.
Our free read is an AI penned article on human creativity created from prompts taken from my own essay on the subject -which is this months Paid read.
FREE READ

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Started a new job yesterday- two days a week- set myself up an office to work from. BasementArtsProject will continue but with slightly less hours than previously

Whilst it may seem backwards to put the AI version first, there was a reason for this.

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One lap done, struggled with 50 more on the machine and now it’s off for one final lap before going home to open up #BasementArtsProject for the day.

October’s Editions of Hypogeal over on Substack constituted something of an break from the usual format.

I came across a piece of writing from earlier in the year in which I was musing on the offerings of AI. And so an experiment was born. With a series of prompts I got AI to rewrite my thoughts

All the while listening to a new EP by Makaya McCraven

50 on here and a lap of the park

Last week was half-term and I finally managed to get away for a couple of days to celebrate our 25th Wedding Anniversary. I also managed to pick up a new, two day a week, job and open a new exhibition here at #BasementArtsProject

दर्शन was the first non-English title that we have used at BasementArtsProject and, just like buses, two come along at once.

The next exhibition is drawn from the Welsh language. Tirweddau Dychmugol-Faesiol is an exhibition by Leeds based studio holder at Serf Seren Oakley

We hope you can join us…

As artists and as a community we are at war on all fronts against the forces that seek to destroy our lives rather than make them better

After 3 years of ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ bringing peace and quiet to the land, a late opening cheap booze licence has seen the land inundated with their mess

The negotiations with the land bankers continue.

Trying to get companies involved in things that help and improve communities rather than make money out of them is nigh on impossible but we persist…

BasementArtsProject The Corner is a long-term project conceived by BasementArtsProject; designed to encourage regeneration in a neglected corner of South Leeds whilst tackling anti-social behaviour and environmental issu...

Over 5 years Basement has been trying to negotiate with offshore land bankers to do something about property they own and do nothing about because they can’t develop it, instead leaving it a shit-tip and a haven for drug dealing, fly/tipping & worse.
what we did…

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Another 50 on the chest and another circuit of the park before I go home and return to my work as Basement

Also a trip out to Meanwood Valley Urban Farm to chat to Sachi Hani-Okofari about projects, trees and the age of rocks