Title: Out of Isolation
Date: 14 September 2020 – 30 October 2020
Location: UCA Canterbury

An Open Call Exhibition throughout UCA public spaces showcasing work by students, graduates and members of staff at UCA Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham and Rochester.

Curators Amy Owen and Georgie Scott

Artist’s Notes

Unanticipated World #7 was included in UCA’s Out of Isolation exhibition which showcased a selection of artworks that have been produced behind closed doors during lockdown. It is an intimate insight into, and record of, how we all have reacted in our own individual ways during these challenging and unprecedented times.

As someone in the very vulnerable category, I was in total lockdown until May 2020. I found myself having to produce work on a small table, away from my studio and with limited access to materials. Sometimes materials ask to be used so mostly I turned to materials that were lying in wait and I experimented with processes like using a gelli plate for monoprinting as lino printing would have been too impractical. The work is a response to the physical limitations of working in a domestic setting, on a small scale, combining printed and drawn marks. The title of the piece is drawn from a media article which brings in the specificity of the circumstances we are all having to deal with.

… luxuriously rich and jeweled – a treat, just right for these bleak times!,

Gwen Hedley

I find Unanticipated World #7 exceedingly beautiful

Francois Le Roux