Artworks

Exhibitions

Location & TOUR DATES

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CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER TRUST

Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, 369 Fulham Road, London, SW10 9NH.

We are proud and grateful that Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in SW London are exhibiting some of the panels of The Covid Chronicle. The space is open to the public at any time. Longer term, the hope is to find a venue where the whole works can be exhibited togther as originally intended. (Currently showing 1-18 on the LG Floor). Each metre square is framed in perspex and ready to hang.

Enquiries welcome, addressed to Wendy Bliss, Founder of The Covid Chronicle, at thecovidchroniclepatchwork@gmail.com

Thank you.

Latest exhibition update:

The Covid Chronicle is made up of 36 metre squares of textile art, made during the pandemic while it happened. It is a unique record of personal experience from around the world. Each panel is accompanied by up to 200 words by the artist, and together they make a historic work of art. If anyone knows of a large public venue, corporation or institution which might be interested in exhibiting the second half, or buying the whole work in aid of MIND, the Mental Health Charity, do please get in touch at thecovidchroniclepatchwork@gmail.com. This major historic art installation would be an asset to anyone showing it: accessible, moving, gentle, curative, and above all, beautiful.

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Sunbury Embroidery Gallery : 23 Feb - 3 Apr 2022

Thames Street, Sunbury-on-Thames, TW16 6AB

'This was the first exhibition I have ever been to where I was able to relate to every single piece', Visitor's Book entry.

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Chippenham Art Gallery & Museum : 9 Apr – 7 May 2022

9-10 Market Place, Chippenham, Wiltshire SN15 3HF

'Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to tell my story and participate in this wonderful collaboration of so many passionate ad talented stitchers.' R. Marti

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Lightbox Gallery : 17 May - 19 Jun 2022

Chobham Rd, Woking GU21 4AA

'Thank you for devising this wonderful collaborative project which has certainly inspired my friends in our village. It has enabled some of us to rediscover our creative skills...and get to know each other in a way that might not have happened otherwise.' E.Lawer

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Riverside Studios, Hammersmith : 28 Jul - 29 Aug 2022

101 Queen Caroline Street Hammersmith London W6 9BN

'Thank you, Covid Chronicle, for starting my journey with abstract embroidery art, though I wish you were an awful nightmare rather than our reality'. Mojo & Muse

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Merton Priory Chapter House : 10th - 25th Sept 2022

Merton Abbey Mills, Watermill Way (entrance in underpass to Savacentre) SW19 2RD

'Creating the panel was extremely helpful as it allowed me to process my thoughts and get them out into the open - very important when face-to-face communication was not always possible'. V. O'Leary

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Spode Museum Trust Heritage Centre : 30th Sept - 5th Nov 2022

Elenora Street, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire ST4 1QQ

'Literally stitching my own story to that of others seemed like a perfect antidote to the disconnect I felt'. N. Adams

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Williamson Art Gallery & Museum : 10th Nov - 17th Dec 2022

Slatey Rd, Oxton, Birkenhead, Prenton CH43 4UE

'I hope you enjoy my creation. I have loved the process and the project.' Helen Collis

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Studio 40 Contemporary Arts : 14th Jan - 25th Feb 2023

40 Queen Street, Neath, SA11 1DL

'There's a [.. ] large stitched artwork, totalling 35 metres of experiences and emotions from during the pandemic which has been touring the UK...The Covid Chronicle was curated by artist Wendy Bliss, with contributions from textile artists around the UK and as far afield as Austalia and Iran.' Private Eye, Issue 1660, 16.6.23

Artworks‍Click on the panel to read the words each artist has written to accompany their piece.

Before and After Covid

Global Allliance

Escapism Keeping me Safe & Saner…

Trust Nature

The seasons… in gratitude

Confiné

The virus quietly infiltrated our country

WI Support; Meetings in a Bag

Overthinking the Universe (Duck duck)

Extracts from "Covid-19 a handkerchief"

Till We Meet Again

Smart World

Language of Covid

Safe at Home

European Road Trip

Hidden

Sewing Therapy

Folland School

For Lillian

Don’t hold hands, Hide your face, Give me Space

Circles, Spirals, Space

The Web of Life

World in Knots

View from my Chair

Time for Change

No More Black

Lovely Peacock

Making PPE in her garden

The words of Covid - and are we really in it together?

Our Guardian, the NHS

Stay Home

'….in time'

The Children of Adam

Hope, Hope and Hope Again

Everything was Cancelled

We walked our way through the seasons

Trees of Pestilence

The world weeps to the Covid19 pandemic

Wanted: A Hug

Insecurity is Pushing us Apart

Back to Nature

Kicking out Covid

For Molly

The Mind Became a Lonely Place

We tried our best to protect our nest but the virus found a way in

Somewhere over the Rainbow

We lost time

The Solace of my Garden