Click on the images below to explore the projects created by our community during lockdown. Alongside the submissions, we asked participants to respond to a series of questions to help us understand more about their creative project/s and their experience. These included;
- How has lockdown made you feel? Has it impacted your mental health and wellbeing?
- Has your creative project helped you to improve your mental health and wellbeing, both in general and during the pandemic? If so, how?
- In what ways has the Covid-19 lockdown influenced your creativity or changed how you use art?
We hope that this exhibition will provoke reflection and discussion surrounding the positive impact of art on our wellbeing and as a way to encourage people to use creativity to improve health. Visit our ‘Create’ page to explore some of the resources we have put together to inspire you!
Amanda Armstrong, Penguin Jubilation- Nirvana Chris Baker, Japanese Garden Island Andrea Sanders-Reece, Untitled Alex Bastable, The Weight Andrew Riley, Rainbow Over Buttermere Emi Musto, Untitled Eve Kuhr Hersov, Locked Down Metropolis Brian O’Connell, Love has no Gender Cecil Sharp House LYFE, Cuckoo’s Nest Diana Serban, A Day at the Sea Glo Weale, Memories Montage Inna Alden, A Lockdown Photo in April Glynis Owen, Journey Janet Kumar, Summer Fun Cancelled Jehane Markham, Covid Morning Jennifer Louise Martin, Clay Heads Linda and the Residents of Southwood Hall Estate, Art in the Garden 1 Michael Hill, Untitled Maggie Pettigrew, Street Lamps Nicola Manasseh, Veil of Love Mitchell Brock, Untitled Rosmond Kinsey Milner, Crow 2 – Self-Portrait (still wearing red lipstick under the mask) Peter Robbins, Panic in the Park Rea Stavropoulos, Fruit, Honeysuckle and a Snail Pam Walker, My Lockdown Gardens 2 Patrick Sykes, Housework Stuart Neale, Looking Up 2 Sarah Nicholl and the Hampstead Gown Factory, Folding Sue Lees, Magnus Sue Pearl, Albion Toni Koppel, Lockdown Day at the Allotment with Gillian Ffion Boyd, London Suzie Edwards, Yearning Rosemary Cumming, Garzoni Painting Valerie Doulton, Harriet Martineau & Charlotte Bronte Joanna Cohn, Burgh House Freya Boutureira, Sebastian, Monster, My age, Mermaid, Fries, Special Eiffel Tower Ruth Corney, Annis