‘In The Windows’
On March 23, 2020 That Art Gallery was forced to close for the first COVID-19 lockdown (in fact, the gallery was due to re-launch in the new Upper Maudlin St location the week after, so actually it delayed rather than closed the gallery)
An 'open call' online exhibition was initiated - digital images inspired by the COVID situation were requested and emailed to the gallery. The variation of subject matter was astounding… from serious and moving, silly and hilarious to an amazing array of pets. From 1000’s of submissions the chosen images were then printed as Polaroids and displayed in the windows of That Art Gallery.
The gallery is a stone’s throw from one of Bristol’s major hospitals and although the public had been ordered to ‘Stay At Home’ the city’s essential workers and NHS staff continued to pass the gallery and the regular updated photos appearing in the windows were a refreshing source of visual stimulation.
All 204 featured images can be seen below and appear in the book, documenting the dark COVID days in an idiosyncratic collection of disparate images.
Together Apart (Book)
£10.00
A pictorial and creative record of a pandemic. This book features photographs by 182 people which were exhibited in the gallery windows (very near the Bristol Royal Infirmary) during the first COVID-19 lockdown.
108 pages. Self Published in collaboration with Tangent Books, 23 March 2021.
