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The Life After Lockdown Project is not a competition but an opportunity to participate creatively, sharing your thoughts and ideas on the Lockdown and Pandemic by submitting artwork for exhibition. Work will be accepted from young people age 16-19 studying Art, Craft and Design in schools and FE colleges both in the UK and overseas.

The Brief

Using the knowledge, skills and processes developed on your Art and Design course and your experiences and vision for how these events might change future society, create a personal piece of work that illustrates or expresses your vision and feelings about this future.

The Work

The work must be your own, original and produced since the UK Lockdown was announced on 20th of March 2020.

Work submitted must be NEW and should not relate to any existing school based work submitted for examination.
Work can be created using any media and submitted digitally.
Individual or collaborative work will be accepted.
You can submit more than one piece of work.
You will need to submit a brief statement alongside the work, this should not exceed 100 words and will indicate, how you arrived at the final piece, your influences and the context of the work.

Deadline

The Life After Lockdown Project is open for submissions NOW!

There is no final deadline for submissions. We plan to launch the first version of the online gallery by 10th June 2020. So if you'd like to be featured in the first version of the gallery please get your submissions in soon.

We'll update this page with further updates about the project.

Get Started

Why not start by thinking about how you could interpret the brief

Think about life before lockdown.How different was it?
What has your life been like under lockdown?
What is your vision about how the future might change? How would you express this?

You might consider one or more of the following:

A new respect for frontline workers
Loneliness, Grief, Loss
Selfless acts of kindness
Hope - for a better society, or a better relationship to our world/ environment
Fear - about how the future will be different
Health and wellbeing of all
The challenges of change
Time - how time feels different, appreciating the time you have to spend doing things or missing activities we spent time on before the lockdown
Community - fractured relationships, or a new feeling of respect for others, social good and new ways to relate to and connect to others

Develop a mood/ideas board

Use the internet to research artists, designers, craft makers, museums, art galleries, to help you develop your ideas and observe what’s going on in your family unit and online community for inspiration.

In the development of your work you should consider :
- Investigating a range of ideas
- Experimenting with media and techniques
- Documenting the development of your work ( which should inform your supporting statement)

Your submission should be an effective realisation of your ideas in interpreting the brief through skilful use of your chosen medium.

Record the progress of your investigations on your phone photos and videos. These can be shared via our Instagram account. Look at artists, designers or other creatives and consider how they might respond to this brief?

Media

What media might you select and use to develop your ideas?

We are aware that you may have limited resources at home. Therefore your response may be dictated by the materials and media that you can access. Artists have always been resourceful so you should see this as an opportunity rather than a hindrance.

Drawing Painting Print Photography Textile

Digital Images and time-based film/animation Collage traditional or digital

Mixed media Sculpture Ceramics House/Garden installation

Photographing your work

The links below offer advice on how to get the best photograph of your work.

If you have a digital camera

How to Photograph your Artwork (For Non - Photographers)

When doing your research, remember to Stay Alert...