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PANDEMIC
A PERSONAL RESPONSE TO COVID-1923 May - 20 June 2021
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Pandemic
A Personal Response to COVID-19Open 23 May - 20 June 2021
Thurs - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 12 - 5pm
RSA Lower Galleries
Booking is essential and COVID-19 safety restrictions will be in place. Book your visit here.
We are delighted to re-open with a Lower Galleries exhibition featuring a selection of work from seven winners of the RSA Pandemic Award, an award created in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in the summer of 2020 to assist artists with the creation of new work in these challenging times. 12 award winners each received a monetary award of £2,500 to research, develop and produce new work which reflected their personal response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
This exhibition presents new work from Anthony Schrag, Chris Leslie and Alex Hayward. It also includes a selection of work from Sara Alonso, Blair McLaughlin, Ronald Binnie and Steven Grainger, previously included in our online exhibition Latitudes, shown physically in the gallery for the first time. In addition to this, documentation of work by Suzanne Anthony, Jack McCombe and Lily Macrae is available to view online.
Colin R. Greenslade, RSA Director: The Pandemic Awards came at a crucial time in the early part of the first lockdown in 2020. The Royal Scottish Academy aimed to reach out to support artists through this difficult period and we were overwhelmed by the response. Selecting from the large volume of applicants was a difficult decision – individual stories included personal tragedies such as isolation and loss through to practical difficulties such as the closure of studio facilities.
The works produced by the recipients record the period through their own stories and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Everything from sculpture and painting, through installation, performance and film – the resulting series of works are a poignant snapshot of a period of time which although currently still very much present, we hope to have left the worst of behind.
I do hope that the selection shown here will assist us all to process these extraordinary and often terrible times which we have all experienced together and apart – a chronicle of a year of upheaval. However, there is also much here to celebrate and enjoy. It is most certainly life-affirming.
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CHRIS LESLIEZATVARANJE, 2020Film5 mins 59 secs [trailer 45 secs]
4K / Colour / 16:9AN EMPTY CITY.
APOPULATION IN HIDING.
AN INVISIBLE ENEMY WHO SURROUNDS YOU.
EVERYONE IS THE FRONT LINE.
A TESTIMONY OF FEAR, SURVIVAL, HOPE.
Trailer for a new short film from Chris Leslie filmed in Glasgow in April / May 2020 during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The full film can be viewed in the RSA gallery as part of the Pandemic exhibition.
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Anthony SchragRhyme, 2020Authors: Anthony Schrag, Alice Finbow and Matthew Halsall
Printed Zine and QR codeA5, 30 pages, 120 x 75 cm -
Anthony SchragStacked, 2020Authors: Anthony Schrag, Alice Finbow and Matthew Halsall
Printed Zine and QR codeA5, 30 pages, 120 x 75 cm -
Anthony SchragAbsence I, 2020Authors: Anthony Schrag, Alice Finbow and Matthew Halsall
Printed Zine and QR codeA5, 30 pages, 120 x 75 cm
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Anthony SchragAbsence II, 2020Duratrans print and lightbox34 x 23 cm£ 1,000.00
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Anthony SchragComfort, 2020Duratrans print and lightbox34 x 23 cm£ 1,000.00
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Anthony SchragThings Fall Apart, 2020Inflatable Sculpture250 x 250 x 250 cm£ 500.00
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Anthony SchragWork/Life Balance (Daily Performances), 2020Digital Documentation23 x 14 cm electronic photo frame.
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Alex Hayward1. BIGGER THAN JESUS - The Fool on the Hill, The Beatles, 1967, 2020Pencil crayon, gouache and ink on paperImage size: 38 x 63 cm
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Alex Hayward2. STEPPING THROUGH THE VOID - Space Oddity, David Bowie, 1969, 2020Gouache and pencil crayon on paperImage size: 38 x 63 cm
Frame size: 59 x 83 cm£ 975.00
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Alex Hayward3. CAVALIERS FOR CROMWELL (PETER IN TWO POSITIONS) - Oliver’s Army, Elvis Costello, 1979, 2020Gouache, pencil crayon and collage on paperImage size: 38 x 63 cm
Frame size: 59 x 83 cm£ 975.00 -
Alex Hayward4. ZOOM! - Take On Me, A-ha, 1985, 2020Pencil crayon, gouache and ink on paperImage size: 38 x 63 cmSold
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Alex Hayward5. THE BIRDS WERE FLOWN (WENDY GAVE PETER A KISS) - These Are The Days Of Our Lives, Queen, 1991, 2020Gouache and collage on paperImage size: 38 x 63 cmSold
Frame size: 59 x 83 cm
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Alex HaywardFIG LEAVES ON THE FLOOR (THINGUMMYJIG!), 2020Gouache on paperImage size: 20 x 40 cm
Frame size: 38.5 x 57.5 com£ 1,350.00 -
Alex HaywardTHE IVY THAT CLINGS TO THE WALL (Picnic on a Volcano) , 2020Gouache and pencil crayon on paperImage size: 28 x 60 cm
Frame size: 47.5 x 77.5 cm£ 1,850.00
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Jack McCombeRepetitions of a Maker: Felix Namque (anon.), 20206-channel digital audio installation
Digital speakers, mild-steel, gypsum plaster, plasterboard, metal stud work, chipboard, castor wheels.Each structure 250 x 123 x 80 cm -
Jack McCombeRender the Moment (Break with the Earth): Tulip (anon.), 2020Glass, soil, plaster, chipboard, reproduced watercolour painting, digital enlarger, site lamp.
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Steven GraingerUntitled I, 2020Fabric, plywood, wooden dowel, cardboard tube and paint68 x 23 x 122 cm£ 1,950.00
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Steven GraingerBoy with a Basket of Fruit, 2020Paper, acetate and oil stick35 x 23 cm£ 700.00
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Steven GraingerUntitled II, 2020Fabric, plywood, wooden dowel, cardboard tube and paint47 x 23 x 220 cm£ 1,950.00
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Lily MacraeRule of Six , 2020Oil on canvas150 x 300 cm
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Sara AlonsoYour Sigh Migrated to The North, 2020Toned cyanotype print on Arches paper, entombed on beeswax. Collage and assemblage on found object.192 x 170 x 50 cm
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Sara AlonsoYour Sigh Migrated to the North - Print, 2020Toned cyanotype print on Arches paper130 x 110 cmVariable edition of 6£ 2,000.00
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Sara AlonsoA Cry For Your Nonexistent Grave, 2020Toned cyanotype print on Arches paper, entombed on beeswax. Collage and assemblage on found object.140 x 92 x 21 cm
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Ronald BinnieZoonosis - Wild/Domestic/Transmission/Human, 2020Oil on canvasTotal: 300 x 400 cm; each: 100 x 150 cm£ 4,000.00