About the project
‘Together We Are Stronger’ is a project to record stories of isolation, bravery, and kindness during lockdown, to reconnect generations and foster a sense of community (during the Covid-19 pandemic) via digital storytelling.
Artist Natasha Rand (founder of Creation Generation) interviewed residents and staff from Somerset Care and local elders from Yeovil to ask how they have been coping, and to share their life experiences of difficult times from their past.
Natasha Rand invited Yeovil Creatives members to take part in this community project and create a response through the title, as a theme, and the podcast. The artworks would be given as a gift to the Care Home and to the elderly residents who shared their stories with us to enable the project TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER, making special way to connect through creativity. Before that, Yeovil Creatives’ responses will take part in the exhibition, showing May 19 to June 30, in Yeovil Art Space .
To know more about the project and listen the podcasts, please visit https://yeovilartspace.uk/together/
12 Yeovil Creatives’ members involved
12 artists are involved with different medium such as painting, drawing, mosaic, theater book… Find here some pictures of their researchs and work in progress.
“Varnishing today….Will reveal the whole piece soon, a piece based on resilience and strength I’ve been working on this canvas recently for a really special project ‘Together We Are Stronger'”
10 March 2021
“My interpretation is about daily walks in lockdown, one foot in front of the other, keeping going and moving foward.”
16 March 2021
“I thought long and hard about the theme of resilience and a phoenix sprang to mind. It is the physical embodiment of resilience…I am creating a rising phoenix out of recycled materials such as crockery and mirrors but am also using traditional mosaic materials like millefiori, stained glass and handcut tesserae” 24 March 2021
“Gathering ideas for a work responding to @yeovilcreatives #togetherwearestronger Reflecting on places my family love and where I have found solace and drawn strength from.”
18 March 2021
“I have a go for the first time ever with a theater book. We are living such imprecedent time, we are living througt new situations and using skills to face it. We need to be creative to sort it out I think. So I wished to create in a new way. A story book in response of stories throught the podcasts. And the story begins in a long winter night…”
20 March 2021
When I am thinking about words together and strength I am thinking about collective, oneness with everything, wholeness, about being connected to the roots, to our ancestors, to nature, time – transcending past and future in the infinite now.
31 st March 2021
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