I'm a visual Artist and Sculptor trapped at home with my two boys and finding a way to relate my personal feelings towards the Covid-19 pandemic.
My work usually focuses on nautical man-made monsters of the sea and that’s where my head usually is. Normally thinking in three dimensions, in solid
engineered structures. These subjects are designed purely for their function, this is what intrigues me most. I felt compelled to produce some large scale
drawings depicting how I and maybe others feel in this unpredictable and threatening situation. To me its like an invisible minefield, that moments chance of breathing in contaminated matter or touching a virus carrying person, all our usual instincts to touch, nurture, feel, comfort are restricted. So I introduced sea mines to give my work a nautical
theme. I was instantly surprised between the similarity in shape of the mines and the virus molecules. Ordering some large paper I cleared the dining room wall
and went for it. Maybe it’s the contact of charcoal, hands on paper, the process being tactile and moulded by my hands, the hands that cannot touch anything
outside of my home. I have portrayed them suspended in a motionless space, waiting to be triggered by contact, menacing and deadly. I hope my work
will create a consciousness of this delicate position and how human touch has become a precarious thing. My drawings are two metres across to enforce the social distancing enforced on our lives.
I have completed two large charcoal and pastel drawings ‘Minefield 1’ and ‘Minefield 2’. I also produced a time-lapse video of the work in progress. You can find this film on my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/GeorginaBownArtist/
www.georgina-artist.co.uk
“Minefield 1”
“Minefield 2”
“Sub-Base 2”
“Sub-Base 1.”
“'Morph'.”
“'Weird Thing'”
