Love in the time of COVID-19 print of artwork by Ian Howard titled 'To make the old at ease, the young at home, to live in peace'

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Type: Prints
Date: 2020
Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Materials: Ink, Paper
Collection: Love in the Time of COVID-19 collection
Accession number: MU00100.001.075

Description

An A4 art print on heavyweight rag paper. The image is in landscape orientation and features a colour photograph of two empty rubber gloves with its fingers laid over a wooden frame painted dark green, with four gold coloured Chinese characters on it. Along one outside edge of the image is printed text reading 'ARTIST NAME: IAN HOWARD, To make the old at ease, the young at home, to live in peace YEAR: 2020 / LOCATION AT THE TIME OF CRISIS: Sydney, Australia | GAGPROJECTS | SOLIDARITY |'. On each side is printed 'LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19', and in one corner is printed a stylised 'gag' (the Greenaway Art Gallery Logo). The back of the page is blank.

About the collection

The Love in the Time of COVID collection consists of 133 digital prints on archival rag paper, a bespoke storage box and an A4 print summary. The prints were made by national and international artists for Adelaide’s Greenaway Art Gallery (GAGPROJECTS) during the first phase of the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. All prints were included in an online exhibition on the GAGPROJECTS website and then in a physical display at the Art Gallery of South Australia in late 2020. The prints series is an open edition. This collection presents a diverse range of artistic responses to the COVID-19 crisis. The prints were created by artists throughout Australia and the world, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, and Asia. Some are internationally recognised, such as Patricia Piccinini, while others, at least at the time of collecting, are emerging. Participants worked to a uniform A4 format and submitted works between April to June 2020. As a not-for-profit project, neither the gallery nor participating artists received payment. Each print was available for purchase for $25AUD, an amount covering printing and postage costs only. Approximately 4500 prints were posted worldwide, with 70% sent to Australian residences. Collectively, this print series exemplifies the global connectivity sparked by the pandemic. Individually, each print reveals the uncertainties, fears, and hopes of an artist or creative practitioner during the first COVID lockdown.

Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 5:50:23 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2025-02-18. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.