Thursday 19 November 2020

Day 5

Covid-19 Art Exhibition

Day 5 Artists

Jenny Meehan - jennymeehan.wordpress.com     @jennymeehanart

This digital collage is based on one of over 50 communication prompt facemasks I designed as a deaf awareness pandemic project, highlighting the need to actively  accommodate others in a time of mass masking. 


More of a Barrier than Intended 


Butterfly Net


Charudatt Pande 

In india, we face a huge migration from one state to another in india. People from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are working in various other states for their living. After lockdown people wants to go to their hometown but the transport is closed in all over India. They have to walk thousands of miles to reach there home. I want to show their pain through my artworks .

Migrated people in lockdown


Stephen Pinnell - pinnellart.com

 

        I Told You I Was Ill           Easter Day               Last Day on Earth


Sophie Riley  

I am a 4th year medical student based at the University of Manchester, currently intercalating at Barts and the London, in Pre-Hospital Medicine. Over lockdown, I worked as Clinical Support Worker at the NHS Nightingale North West (NNW). This involved caring for patients with COVID-19. This pandemic has massively impacted so many aspects of medicine, from the way we are taught to how we communicate with patients. In this self-portrait, I have explored these ideas, specifically focusing on the effect of working whilst wearing PPE. 




Masked

Kate Rolison @poesiegrenadine 

At a loss at the beginning of lockdown, I decided to embroider a short diary entry for each day of lockdown in tiny cross-stitch, working through the colour spectrum, a range of experiences and emotions, and various fonts as I went.


Cross Stitch Lockdown Diary


Mary Rouncefieldmaryrouncefield.co.uk



         

Donning the Mask    Woman in a Mask   War by Another Name


Jordan Sallismsblackink.co.uk

105 paintings, 105 natural subjects, 105 days in lockdown.

Prior to lockdown I had been struggling with severe anxiety which has had a profound effect on my life. Simple activities such as short walks and everyday tasks were always difficult and rarely completed.

During lockdown I have been able to embrace the quietness and solitude of the outdoors and able to carry out everyday tasks. This has given me the opportunity to relax and appreciate everything that we have already in the natural world. I decided to illustrate a subject every day that I saw on my daily walk relating to nature. I have been painting with handmade charcoal ink on mulberry paper.

I started painting on the 23.03.20 when lockdown was announced whilst living in wales up until 07.07.20 when restrictions were lifted.




Freedom


Marketa Senkyrikmarketas.net

How natural is breathing?
What about touching your friends?
Do you remember the smell of other people?

I find it alarming that an illness not only attacks us by disabling such a primary bodily function as breathing deprives us all of our basic freedom.
This is the true call to a change.
Or to become extinct.

The series of paintings I did during the lockdown due to the Covid 19 pandemic reflect my feelings about these strange times.
I am playing with transparency, notion of movement (breathing)…

Breathe In - Breathe out, watercolour on Hayle Mill Hot Press 145gsm 770x570mm

An autobiographical painting, a meditation about the simple movement generated by breathing



Breathe In - Breathe Out


Sandra G. Soriano  - @puntadasdeotono

We have come to Autumn; and our confinement by Covid19 continues. Life has been truncated with limitations, we have physically distanced ourselves from friends and family, and projects have been left hanging by a thread; But hope is what keeps us on our feet, what feeds us every morning to continue looking forward. Autumn Stitches is my tribute to Life.




Autumn Stitches


Anne Stansfieldconceptualartist.wixsite.com/annestansfield      @stansfield

During lockdown I experimented with paint, I wanted to see whether a paint bubble would maintain its bubble state when dry (a true 3D painting). I tried different types of paints and varied additives - they all popped! Each failed experiment created a hermetically sealed unit, like every household in Britain, and my own sense of suffocation was represented by them. I began to draw squashed and distorted parts of my body into the airless and isolated pockets. 'Bubble Black' is one of these drawings.


Bubble Black


Kate Steenhauer and Maria Sapphokatesteenhauer.com/the-making-of-a-feminist

During lockdown I read ’Invisible Women’, a book by Caroline Perez exposing data bias in a world designed for men. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and media, it reveals how half of the population is ignored, often with disastrous consequences.

These data biases are heightened in times of conflict, natural disasters, and pandemics, when women’s lives are disproportionality affected by higher risk of infection, sexual abuse, and domestic violence. COVID-19 demonstrates society’s inequality ‘beautifully’, not just for women but any minority.

'The making of a feminist' captures a figure struggle towards embracing feminism within the global catastrophe. In quarantine I used for the first-time myself as life-model. The work consists of 100 drawings (selfies) and a 3-minute audio-visual clip, where these drawings evolve with sound composition enhancing the lockdown domesticity commenting on the associations of so-called women’s chores, interwoven with text:

In the current situation a logical way to improve gender inequality is to implement preferential condition for women. I find it humiliating to be given a special treatment although I do want a level playing field.

I am aware of how privileged I am, and therefore worried about predominantly white middle-class western flavour of feminism.

On the other hand, thinking about major self-imposed dangers facing humanity a more balanced or even women-only leadership would prove much better suited for choosing and promoting collective, rather than competitive effort.

The way female-led governments have tackled COVID-19 is a good demonstration of how that would work.



The Making of a Feminist


Anthony Stevenscandidastevens.com/artists/154-anthony-stevens/works/      coag.dk/artists#/anthony-stevens

Made in 2020 as part of Isolated Observations, an exhibition of work made in response to the Covid 19 lockdown.

Threshold came into being after hearing and reading the phrase ‘Everything hinges on what we do next’, on various news sites during the height of the U.K lockdown.

It is true, it does. We are currently in a liminal space, a place of suspension that will pass, just as the virus eventually will and all the rainbows in windows with it; rainbows which I feel are representative of a specific set of circumstances and factors, just as the rainbows we see in the sky are.

At some point, we will all have to open our doors again and step across our thresholds and out into the world. Will the time in isolation have affected us, changed us and our world view in any significant way? Will we view our lives and the very act of living differently after being so vividly confronted with it’s finite nature on such a mass scale?

The first act of opening our doors after lockdown, the hinges moving, being set into action by our intent to step back into the world will be a profoundly significant one. That intent and it’s motivations will dictate what happens next for us as individuals and the world as a whole.


Threshold


Vanessa Stewart

A motif fragment from an original unexhibited  watercolour from a series "Renaissance 2" concerning mutated human forms inhabiting a far future world...trapped in my bubble...


New Worlds 2 -Secure Bubble

Developments of background images created by Medical School undergraduates in past years at University of Leeds Medical school, where I have run a "Creative Doctor" short course, over each of the past 11 Years.  [Students sign permissions for their work to be documented and used.] 

 "Stigma" was on the theme of isolation in relation to HIV Aids in Russia where the student had done some research; 

"Mental Health" was a large scale group mark making  response to word stimulii on the theme of mental health.  

Superimposed on each of these backgrounds are a number of different motifs resonant of the current Covid-19 pandemic making entirely new original artwork.

                              LSUni- Stigma            LSUni-MentalHealth-Covid




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