Where: JD Malat Gallery
When: 1-8 July
What: A unique, group exhibition of artists whose work showed a creative response to the COVID-19 isolation period.
The winning works include a sculpture of Boris Johnson, made from 6,277 pages of newsprint collected, cut and assembled during the pandemic; an Old Masters style painting of loo roll and pasta; a hyperreal nurse painting; a sculpture of giant eggs in a kitchen and a huge vaccination syringe installation filled with hearts.
Some of art and culture’s biggest names made up the committee carefully reviewing submissions, including rockstar and art collector Gavin Rossdale,YBA legend Gavin Turk,GQ editor Dylan Jones, artist Robert Montgomery, celebrity art dealer and JD Malat Gallery owner Jean-David Malat, Sotheby’s Institute’s Professor David Bellingham, Art Dealer Simon de Pury and artist Katrin Fridriks.