Room 5: Care

Experiences of care, kindness and love are documented, celebrated and shared in this room. Care has been a vital aspect of both political and personal responses to the pandemic. Governments and individuals have been scrutinised for their capacity to care. Inadequate social policies and healthcare systems have exemplified society’s failure to care. Care workers have been revalorised in the public eye even if still not properly recompensed. Alternative systems of community care have become essential to the survival of those who exist on the margins.

01: A young boy showing his support for the NHS.

02: A young girl’s transcription and illustration of a poem in support of frontline workers.

03: A series of rainbows made by children during lockdown.

04: A painted stone made during Ramadan under lockdown in support of the NHS.

05: Documenting the voluntary work of asylum seekers helping and supporting others during lockdown by delivering food parcels to other asylum seeking families.

09: Volunteers from the Aberdeenshire Syrian community have made and donated over 900 scrub bags to frontline workers, including those working at Inverurie Hospital, care homes and community nursing teams.

10: Security or Liberty?, by Deborah Garcia.

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