Day 3

Covid-19 Art Exhibition

Day 3 Artists

Rhian Louise Evans

Anonymous                                                                       Naming

Fred Fabre - www.drawlogia.com

Santa Claus in A&E receiving oxygen with a medical team in the background while a middle aged Tinker Bell is taking over his job.

Covid Santa

Tracy Ferriss - www.earthyhealthy.com

Lockdown was a misery but gardening was my salvation

Lockdown

Angela Fox 

I chose the medium of watercolour as it has a fragile quality. I wanted it to portray my husband dissolving in front of my eyes! The frustration of not being able to get the correct medical help and advice. Meanwhile he fades.

Dissolving

Finally I get past the receptionist!

1 doctor calls.

15 antibiotics.

1 husband ceases to dissolve and begins to resolve.

8 days of suffering ends.

He breathes easily again.

Resolving

Vardit Goldner - www.saatchiart.com/VarditGoldner

Lloyd tries to imitate human beings in order to feel protected. Or at least, this is what, as being human, we assume.

I’m Protected

Nicola Grellier - www.nicolagrellier.co.uk    @nick_grellier 

Facetime 322                                               Space Invader 325

Staying Alert 346

Liz Griffiths - @lizgriffiths423

I’m lucky to live very near a couple of parks, and walking in them when everything was closed inspired this work.

I ❤️ The Park

Stephen Hennessy -  www.stephen-hennessy.com  @hennessy_stephen

My work centres on the extraordinary nature of the ordinary everyday. The things that we may give very little time to are for me a cause of meditation and celebration, these kinds of moments have gained more value with the current Covid crisis. We now have more time on our hands to observe and contemplate our lives and the things immediately surrounding us. When all the distractions are gone - the job to go to, the restaurant to eat in, the pub to drink and socialise in you’re left only to meditate with the objects, the streets and the people around you. I view this latest body of work as a series of meditations - a moment in time contemplated and recorded for what it is.

Supermarket Sweep

Sarah Hinds - sarahhinds.wordpress.com soundcloud.com/sarah-hinds-4

These words are taken from the lyrics of a song I wrote in response to an increasing feeling of sadness or sorrow which I experienced when using video call as a way of communicating socially and at work (I've not seen my colleagues for over 7 months). It was a feeling which seemed to be saying something about the incremental losses we are experiencing around presence, human connection and intimacy during the pandemic. It was about something more than 'Zoom fatigue', something about our relationship with our bodies and our humanness.
The full song can be found on my Soundcloud page: https://soundcloud.com/sarah-hinds-4

Melanie Honebone - melaniehonebone.wordpress.com

I wore one long before. Now everyone wears one nothing seems real.

Mask

I must not fear.

Fear is the Mindkiller

The face we wear is not always the face we believe we are wearing.

About Face

Gareth Hughes - www.garethhughesart.com

At the height of the first wave of the Covid pandemic, I painted Diane (oils on canvas). Diane still works as a senior charge nurse in a respiratory ward that became a Covid ward, based at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. I aimed to capture the mood and exhaustion of Diane between unrelenting shifts. At the time of painting, the work of the NHS and other keyworkers was relatively overlooked.

Diane

Rebecca Ivatts - www.rebeccaivatts.com     @Rebeccaivatts

It was inspired by that weird world-turned upside-down sense of almost hibernatory lethargy during lockdown. I also have a fixation with bats!

Wings Clipped

Shahina Jaffer - www.art247.co.uk

Howling for Health is symbolic of the current climate, when nature takes over and makes a howl for health and healing under a full moon. I wanted to show solidarity with global health workers and that's why I used the health symbol.

Howling for Health 2020

Louisa Pankhurst Johnson - www.louisajohnsonvisualpoet.com/

The solution to pollution is dilution.

To sustain an unhinged environment to happily live in, only occurs with use of personal protection, to eliminate hazards via the nervous system by technology.
Biohacking, shielding & grounding eliminate electromagnetic power through the earth’s natural resources, enabling detoxification of the nervous system.

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Job 27:3

For as long as life is in me,
And the breath of God is in my nostrils.

War On Oxygen 

Helen Jones - www.helenjonesartist.com  @helen_jonesart

This photograph is part of an ongoing series I am working on in order to capture the natural light in various ways around my home. About two months before lockdown, I moved to new accommodation, which was part of a fresh start for me, with exciting possibilities and friendships. I had no idea at this point just how much time I would be spending in this new environment. Over this relatively short period of time, the house has become my home. Staying at home throughout the day means I can explore the light patterns in different rooms and capture their movement through film and photography. I enjoy watching the light become stronger in certain areas, and then fade away to nothing. Through this process I am documenting the time passing each day, and I am capturing a disappearing moment, which is never quite the same when revisited the next day.

Escape