Hunker
Spring 2021 - memories of life in lockdown
It is important to express oneself…provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.
Berthe Morisot
Charlotte
[County High School Leftwich]Pages from Charlotte's Sketchbook
To hunker has two meanings:1To crouch down, hide away and wait for better times (a bit like hibernate)2To apply oneself seriously to making work - hunkering down for an exam (or exhibition).
Charlotte's work reflects both meanings and is both playful and meticulous. It shows how we have perhaps had time and opportunity to really apply ourselves to making work that is beautiful.
Grace
My Cat Harry
pencil on paper
What is Harry thinking about lockdown? Grace's strong mark making give her cat oodles of character.
Daisy
[Davenham CE Primary y6]
Eye of Hope
pencil and chalk on paper
The white detailing shows beautifully the twinkle of hope Daisy wants to share with us. The enigmatic smile below indicates a peaceful lockdown.
Cody [Kingsmead Primary y3]
Kandinsky Love Hearts
watercolour on paper
Cody's brightly coloured rainbow hearts, inspired by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, will be forever associated with our NHS workers. Key workers in health care, social care, education and food production and distribution kept the country running through the pandemic. We learned to value and respect those who contribute to our community and care for others.
Daisy
[Davenham CE Primary y6]
Untitled
pencil/pastel on canvas
Lockdown has not stopped us travelling to beautiful places in our imaginations. Is the sun rising or setting do you think?
Charlotte
[County High School Leftwich]Japan
Confined over lockdown Charlotte has travelled East in her sketchbook.
Elena
[Wincham Primary]Wolves
Elena's love of wolves and the wild is loud and clear in her drawings.
Megan
[Kingsmead Primary y5]Self Portrait in Lockdown
water soluble pencils on paper
A serene work showing Megan safe and secure, inside a book and surrounded by the nature, books and art which have sustained her through the 2021 lockdown.
Alys
[Kingsmead Primary y3]Lockdown Learning While Mummy Works
pencil on lined paper
This work shows that learning at home is OK, good enough while the infection rates are high. There is also a hint of Alys looking forward to be back learning in school with real people, off screen and in 3 dimensions.
Hittesh [Kingsmead Primary y5]
Chair
pencil on paper
Hittesh thought of people for whom the pandemic has been particularly harsh. He uses the rugged/destroyed chair as a symbol of the troubles of a refugee. His work is a bit like a visual metaphor.
"A refugee has many problems in his/her life as no shelter hunger loss in food no clothing etc. so I thought I could make all those pictures into one picture."
Grace
Untitled
papier mache sculpture
Grace is literally holding the world in her hands! Grace's knowledge of the world will help her care about it more - we all respect better that which we understand and know about.
Amelie
[Kingsmead Primary y5]Instead of watching the world burn outside, we can watch a better reality from a screen
Clip Studio on Veikk A30 Drawing tablet
This work gives both a sense of isolation but also comfort and peace during the quiet days of lockdown.
Madeline
[Weaverham Primary Academy y5]Sloth
felt pen on paper
Madeline's sloth looks just fine. Many people have appreciated a slower pace of life in lockdown and found new joy in familiar surroundings.
Almasa
[Kingsmead Primary y5]Untitled
watercolour and pencil on paper
Almasa looks very much at peace in this picture, surrounded by nature in her lockdown.
same sea...different boats
This work by Key Stage 1 children at Kingsmead Primary was inspired by Hokusai's Great Wave. The wave, like coronavirus, dominates Hokusai's picture like the virus has dominated our lives. But the wave, like the virus, is a moment in time. It will pass. Mount Fuji and the people of Japan, will endure and emerge.
Year 2 - Dragonflies
Dragonflies-SameSeaDifferentBoats.pdfThe idea of same sea, different boats reflects how we have all experienced the pandemic, together but apart. The same event has been different for us all. Through both lockdowns most children learned with parents and carers at home but many came into very different classes and schools to the ones they left on 22nd March 2020. Teachers worked from home but many came in and worked bank holidays and weekends so NHS staff and others could go to work.
Elena [Wincham Primary]
Still Life
pencil on paper
Cuckoos [Kingsmead Primary School y3]
Memories of Lockdown: the good, the bad and the interesting.
pencil, pen, charcoal on paper
These were images made from memory, a very different approach to observational drawing. Drawing from memory can make for strange and dreamlike images.
People's pets have kept them sane providing company, exercise and comfort.
Families saw one another with new eyes and many enjoyed the time together.
When dad is a tree surgeon going to work with him is always going to be memorable!
Eyewitness account in art!
A house flood was not an unmitigated disaster - someone got to see her grandparents!
Enjoying Walking The Dog - we have learned to value simpler pleasures.
Music was a common theme at Kingsmead, sustaining many of us through lockdown.
While the Cave offered some suggestions to get children and young people going with their work what has been wonderful is to see that they have chosen their own media and interpreted the title of the show so broadly.
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