Covid-19 collage series.
- Harrison, Kevin
- Date:
- 2020-2023
- Reference:
- 3366391i
- Pictures
Collection contents
About this work
Description
A series of collaged drawings created during the Covid pandemic of 2020-23, depicting life in London during lockdown. The drawings use pen, pencils and paint, collaged with found materials. The subjects cover the impact of lockdown, social isolation, mental health, face masks and personal protective equipment, and the social and political tensions at play during the pandemic. They highlight issues such as social inequity, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the contradictions that resulted from social distancing.
Publication/Creation
London: 2020-2023.
Physical description
159 collaged drawings on paper.
Contributors
Biographical note
"Here’s a small selection of my ‘covid collages’ which I did as a personal response to the pandemic… I sort of slipped into doing them, as a way of processing the whole mad, once in a lifetime event… hopefully! I am primarily known as a sculptor, making large scale painted sculptures, of a strong social and political nature, often with a disarming sense humour, but I have always drawn and made collages, mainly as ideas for my sculpture, the forced isolation of the various lockdowns, made me do at least one a day responding spontaneously as events unfolded… a kind of visual diary?"-- Kevin Harrison, 18.07.2025
Terms of use
CC-BY 4.0
Copyright note
Wellcome Collection.