Lockdown Still Lifes - Unlocked

NOURISH supported network Lockdown Still Lifes hosted their first in person event on the 20th of October.

The aim was to connect and reach out with others in a physical space, now that we are finally unlocked. Working with YVAN Lockdown Still Lifes have been reframing the online project as a network and exploring what it really means to connect.

25 artists shared their ideas and work around the theme of - UNLOCKED

It was also the launch of their publication: Lockdown Still Lifes. Or what it means to be creative through a pandemic.

Lockdown Still Lifes is a community born as an immediate response to UK Lockdown on 28th March 2020. Members are invited to post photos that inspire them. It provided a visual insight into lockdown life during this unique time of social distancing and isolation. We found that by expressing yourself through everyday objects, people access a new and different narrative.

Throughout lockdown the group shared work and ideas, asking questions, and seeing the world through each other’s eyes. Exploring creative topics in weekly zoom meetings on themes as diverse as origins, dreams, obstacles and place, provided an arena where participants shared backgrounds, experiences and knowledge, in the process enriching and connecting with each other.

Unlocked:

Moving out of Lockdown we have been given the opportunity to develop as a network and having a space in the artist community in Shirethorn House gives us the opportunity to reach out and connect with other organisations. We want to invite a wide range of collaborators to work alongside to develop projects and activities that resonate with our original purpose.

Lockdown Still Lifes Manifesto:

We are curious - we want to hear different perspectives, new views, alternative thoughts, stories from the past, speculations of the future. Keep them coming, we want to learn, grow and explore.

We are kind - life can be hard and difficult. We create a space, where we can feel supported, understood and safe. Where we can open up and share and access that deep creativity that resides in us all.

We Listen - one thing we learned in all those zoom meetings, it’s important, when one person talks for everyone to listen. This is how you create an equal community where everyone feels valued.

We Reflect - always, constantly.. Something we value and bring back to meetings, to the pages we post on, the images we take, the conversations we have. Without reflection, there is no depth..

We are ourselves and we are all artists, because Joseph Beuys says so...

Learn more and get involved using the links below:

kunstbureau.art
facebook.com/groups/lockdownstilllifes
kunstbureau.art@gmail.com