Hear about the experience of British sculptor Sarah Larby under lockdown as she talks about her mum’s sewing machine, reading Laura White’s blog, and how working without walls in her garden-cum-studio has impacted her art.
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Hear about the experience of Catalan-Peruvian photographer Lidia Huerta under lockdown as she talks about Simone de Beauvoir, adjusting to socially-distanced photo shoots and the importance of light in her work.
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Hear about the experience of Indian visual artist, photographer and writer Rhea Gupte under lockdown as she talks about her studio in a small village in Goa, Frida Kahlo, and the surprise watercolour a friend’s three year-old gave her.
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Iraqi artist Salam Atta Sabri has produced his own One Thousand and One Nights set in Baghdad. In response to the Coronavirus pandemic that has forced us to live from day to day, his drawings present an extended period of uncertainty and prolonged waiting through the character Shahrazad’s experience in the Arabian Nights.
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Spaces that once offered solace at the end of the day are now uncertain sites for many. Unexpected pressures arise as we are forced to work among our families, return to our childhood bedrooms, or live in isolation. Our homes continue to offer us protection, but they are not the same refuges from the outside world that they once were.
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“They’re whimsical in a way, they’re funny and colourful, but at the same time they are kind of sad.” Iranian artist Afsoon has started ‘The Corona Days’, a diary of watercolour drawings that chronicle the experience of the Coronavirus pandemic. Part diary and part art therapy, Afsoon finds her sketchbook “a useful tool to control where my mind was trying to burst out.” As part of the exercise Afsoon pays attention to the feel of each day. She expresses her first emotion on waking in her sketchbook, working on and around it through a cast of characters, quotes, and memories.
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