Special Event

Lunchtime Conversation w/ Phee Jefferies

24 August 2025
12-2pm
Free to all

"Once you start, you see absurdity in everything"

As has become tradition, we will be closing the exhibition with the Lunchtime Conversation. An opportunity for a home-cooked meal around the kitchen table here at BasementHQ and lively chat with the artist and other guests before a guided tour of the exhibition.

The world can be a mundane and underwhelming place, @Pheemakesthings stand out. The monotony of the working week and the things we see so often that we stop noticing them are undone in the hyper-realistic work of Phee Jeffries.

‘You’re Doing It Wrong’ takes the objects of the everyday and presents them in unexpected ways. These installations give an absurdist view of the world that can be simultaneously humorous and disquieting. 100 years on from the birth of surrealism it is a style still very much in evidence in the ultra-bizarre, you wouldn’t believe it if we told you, 21st Century.

Says Phee of her work:

"I have an inherent interest in things cast aside as “junk”, and like to use common objects in uncommon ways to create absurd interpretations of everyday situations. We see things, but we very rarely look at them. I love to analyse the world around me, considering the things that are so normal we don’t even think twice about them and how strange they really are. Through my work I encourage people to notice the weird and wonderful aspects of the human condition, and to embrace them. Once you start then you see absurdity in everything, and even the most mundane objects become full of a bizarre and nonsensical beauty, which makes life so much more exciting!"

So come along and Join Phee with food on the last day of her exhibition with us.

MENU (All homemade by BasementArtsProject)

SouthernFried Chicken/Mashed Potato/ Sweetcorn

Mexican Lime & Chilli Butternut Squash Tortillas (Vegan)

Tea/Coffee/Juice

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BasementArtsProject

28 Burton Terrace, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS11 5JH
0750 672 1504

Free to all

Opening times

Friday 27th September 10am - 2pm

Saturday 28th September 10am - 2pm

Sunday 29th September 10am - 2pm

Monday 30th September 10am - 2pm

Tuesday 1st October 10am - 2pm

Wednesday 2nd October 12- 8pm


Monday 7th October 10am - 2pm

Tuesday 8th October 10am - 2pm

Wednesday 9th October 12- 8pm

Thursday 10th October 10am - 2pm

Friday 11th October 10am - 2pm

Saturday 12th October 10am - 2pm

Sunday 13th October 10am - 2pm


Friday 18th October 10am - 2pm

Saturday 19th October 10am - 2pm

Sunday 20th October 10am - 2pm

Monday 21st October 10am - 2pm

Tuesday 22nd October 10am - 2pm

Wednesday 23rd October 12- 8pm

Thursday 24th October 10am - 2pm


Sunday 20th October 10am - 2pm Lunchtime Conversation (10 tickets) 12-2pm

Exclusions and safety measures

Appointments can be made 7 days-a-week outside of Opening Hours based on my availability to open. Just contact Bruce on basementartsproject@gmail.com

 

  • Each exhibition lasts for approximately a month (with periods of closure between for changing exhibitions)
  • Except for the December exhibition which lasts for 3 months and the summer exhibition which lasts for 2 months
  • Average of 7 exhibitions per year (not including stand-alone events such as concerts or charity takeover days or external art fairs and exhibitions that take place outside of BasementArtsProject) This equates to 11 months of exhibitions per year. 
  • There are occasional changes to this routine dependent upon external events that I am involved in but they are usually substituted with other dates and times and advertised well in advance

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