Rooftop Arts Portrait Exhibition, 2022
27 New Post Office Square, Corby, Northamptonshire, NN17 1PB
23rd November - 17th December
Wednesdays - Saturdays between 11am - 4pm
Life in lockdown
Life in lockdown
Life in lockdown
'Keep 2m apart'
Bubbles
'The other 23 hours'
'Clap for carers'
This series of mini-paintings began in December 2020. Lockdown. I found a lockdown poetry group on Facebook that provided the inspiration; writing out four poems on paper and collaging them (backwards) onto the canvases. I added figures and other collage pieces cut out from packing paper I had painted with left-over paint. I got a new commission, so these canvases lay dormant. Fast forward to October 2022. A colleague I once worked with sadly passed away. She had been suffering from long covid and had spent quite some time in a rehabilitation centre. I felt the need to return to these pieces.
Life in lockdown is my retrospective.
‘Keep 2 m apart’ with all its spots and arrows, many still visible in our shops and public spaces. Don’t forget your mask!
‘Bubbles’ reflects the time we were allowed outside in small groups of family or support bubbles, while some were still struggling on alone.
‘The other 23 hours' is a reminder of the time we were only allowed out for one hour of exercise a day.
And ‘Clap for carers’ finds community from the crisis, and a time for neighbours to learn just that little bit more about each other on their doorsteps, Thursdays at 8pm.
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Previous Exhibitions
Heseltine Gallery Open Exhibition, Middleton Cheney, December 2021
Northants Open Studios Spring Open Exhibition, Lamport Hall, February 2022
Heseltine Gallery Open Exhibition, Middleton Cheney, May 2022
Northants Open Studios Central Exhibition, Lamport Hall, September 2022