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
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 Rouncefield - maryrouncefield.
Donning the Mask Woman in a Mask War by Another Name
Jordan Sallis - msblackink.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 Senkyrik - marketas.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 Stansfield - conceptualartist.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.
Kate Steenhauer and Maria Sappho - katesteenhauer.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.
Anthony Stevens - candidastevens.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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