'Time-Lapse' 2021
17th May to 1st August.
'Time-Laspse' ... a group exhibition by nine members from the DN Cornwall and Devon Cluster.
The Royal Cornwall Museum,
25 River St,
Truro
TR1 2SJ
25 River St,
Truro
TR1 2SJ
'Time-Lapse' ... creative record of what happened when time stopped as Covid-19 took hold. Nine members of Design-Nation Cornwall & Devon have contributed work exploring this theme of making in isolation, as we emerge once again into the public domain after a period of containment and introspection.
Using the exhibition as a springboard, these artists have explored the benefits of creating art as a way of coping with living through a pandemic and vital for raising morale. An exploration of the healing nature of creativity and mental health.
‘Artists have a function. We are part of a conversation. It is our job to represent and mirror back the values of the culture in a way that people haven’t seen before.’
This is a shared conversation about Lockdown, and a celebration of when life as we knew it stopped, but we still kept making.
Using the exhibition as a springboard, these artists have explored the benefits of creating art as a way of coping with living through a pandemic and vital for raising morale. An exploration of the healing nature of creativity and mental health.
‘Artists have a function. We are part of a conversation. It is our job to represent and mirror back the values of the culture in a way that people haven’t seen before.’
This is a shared conversation about Lockdown, and a celebration of when life as we knew it stopped, but we still kept making.
Words courtesy of https://designnationcornwallanddevon.wordpress.com/time-lapse
Fellow exhibitors ...
Click on the members names to view their websites ...
Another poetic ramble ... that makes sense of my exhibited work ...
Covid 19
Stuck in a boat,
Stuck in a boatyard,
Stuck in Gweek,
Stuck in Cornwall,
... (and the sun shone)
We were the lucky ones ...
locking down,
in what, (we think)
is the most beautiful place in the world.
Living in a bubble.
Living to avoid the lurgy.
Normally ...
I live in my boat,
I walk my dogs,
I go to my studio,
I socialise with people in a safe cyber world of artists and makers,
... (and my mum on the phone).
Now I physically talk to more physical people ...
Those ...
who like us ...
were ...
Stuck in their boats,
Stuck in this boatyard,
Stuck in Cornwall.
This boatyard of people ...
who guiltily confessed ...
in hushed tones ...
of actually rather enjoying this new locked down world of staying at home.
And my work ??
Well it's still being made from discarded objects ...
found in the same boatyard as before lockdown ....
... (and the sun shone).
Stuck in a boat,
Stuck in a boatyard,
Stuck in Gweek,
Stuck in Cornwall,
... (and the sun shone)
We were the lucky ones ...
locking down,
in what, (we think)
is the most beautiful place in the world.
Living in a bubble.
Living to avoid the lurgy.
Normally ...
I live in my boat,
I walk my dogs,
I go to my studio,
I socialise with people in a safe cyber world of artists and makers,
... (and my mum on the phone).
Now I physically talk to more physical people ...
Those ...
who like us ...
were ...
Stuck in their boats,
Stuck in this boatyard,
Stuck in Cornwall.
This boatyard of people ...
who guiltily confessed ...
in hushed tones ...
of actually rather enjoying this new locked down world of staying at home.
And my work ??
Well it's still being made from discarded objects ...
found in the same boatyard as before lockdown ....
... (and the sun shone).
