Room 6: Creativity

This room documents the diverse artistic methods of the community of creative collaborators and their resilience in the face of multiple pressures. The disruption caused by the pandemic has led many people to turn to creative activities to ease boredom, stress and depression. For some, it has been a welcome relief from harsher realities. Creative work allows not just for self-expression but also for critical distance. It affords a time and space to take a step back from the world and inhabit inner worlds of imagination. Creative practices have been invaluable in communicating complex and difficult emotions and experiences endured in this period.

01: Covid Treasures, by Dijwar Ibrahim.

02: Corona Hits, by Jawad Morad.

03: Light Projected Over Emotions Through Threaded Bars, by Deborah Garcia, a young Venezuelan artist living in Spain.

04: A banner made by a member of Swansea Women’s Group for the Chinese New Year festival which was cancelled due to the pandemic.

05: Cartoon by Dima al-Barri.

06: A drawing by a young asylum seeker from Pakistan.

07: T-shirts made by two sisters, aged 11 and 6.

08: Images of Entrapment, drawings by a young, asylum seeking mother.

09: The World vs. Corona, by Jawad Morad.

10: Loving Horses, by Mansoureh (Mahsah) Koohnab.

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“During lockdown many people turned to love and lovemaking, creating romantic atmospheres in their homes with scented candles (sales of which soared). These horses are smiling and looking lovingly at one another, as did many who found love again in lockdown, while others could only hope and dream for it.”

11: A person began to paint during lockdown, and although lockdown has lifted they continue.

12: A person began to paint during lockdown, and although lockdown has lifted they continue.

13: Two boys explore craft under lockdown.

14: Pink Flowers, a block print by Neja Rathnaweer, aged 8, who is a regular member of Kids Art Club.

15: Dancing with my Daughter, by Mansoureh (Mahsah) Koohnab. Mahsah had to leave her 6-year old daughter behind in Iran when she fled. Painting provides her only temporary relief from this intolerable pain.

16: A poem about Covid-19.

17: The Domino Effect, a cartoon describing the weaknesses and interdependencies which Covid-19 has exposed.

18: A person began to paint during lockdown, and although lockdown has lifted they continue.

19: A person began to paint during lockdown, and although lockdown has lifted they continue.

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