A LIFELINE TO ARTISTS DURING LOCKDOWN AND BEYOND

An art initiative founded in 2020 to capture South Africa’s historic Covid-19 lockdown and support vulnerable artists.

 

The Lockdown Collection (TLC), the intended three-week long initiative to raise funds for artists during South Africa’s first and historic Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020, has announced that after over thirty months of ongoing fundraising, the time has come to conclude the project.

Aligned with the general global cessation of enforced Lockdowns, the TLC Founders and Team concur the relevance of Lockdowns has diminished and that whilst the unprecedented events of the past years of the pandemic should be remembered and artistically captured, it’s unnecessary for the theme and project to persist beyond its time.

 
 

 “IN TERMS OF ARTISTIC RESPONSE TO
COVID-19, THIS IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT INITIATIVE IN THE ART WORLD ON PLANET EARTH RIGHT NOW.”

- Professor Mark Auslander, Director at Michigan State University Museum (US)
& Associate Prof of History and Anthropology (MSU)

 

The Official 2020 Lockdown Collection Poster

“Weigh All Tears” by William Kentridge

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The official 2020 poster of The Lockdown Collection: The background, inspiration and emotion behind this timeless work, brought to you by William Kentridge himself.

Limited edition prints of this poster were available for purchase with all proceeds going to The Vulnerable Visual Artist Fund by The Lockdown Collection.


Gratitude to RMB for their support by highlighting this poster and the initiative behind it as part of their Turbine Art Fair initiatives.

📹: Thanks to John Culverwell & his team for this video.

 

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