Highland art students host virtual interactive exhibition with live streaming event during coronavirus pandemic
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More than 300 cultured couch potatoes tuned in to take part in a novel way of viewing art after Inverness UHI students held their exhibition online during the Covid-19 lockdown.
There were more than 200 unique visitors who tuned into a livestream website on Lovestream Highlands – proving that global and social distancing was not a barrier if artists are determined and resourceful.
A collective group of fourteen HNC and HND, UHI Inverness college Contemporary Art Students opted for a livestream format which enabled viewers to chat to the artists live online throughout the show.
Julie Williams, one of the students who contributed to the event, said “This gave us a unique way of offering insights into our work that is not always possible during traditional exhibit formats.”
The artists took this opportunity to creatively voice their commentary on the issues that are affecting us globally through artistic representation and it was hoped that these poignant statements would initiate conversations about issues such as: the environment, animals in captivity, mental health, dementia, Covid 19 and domestic abuse sufferers.
The standard was high from those who submitted 3D sculptures and projections, watercolour paintings transformed into gifs that moved and glitched, and time lapse photographs.
The show was introduced by Frank To, Art lecturer at the Inverness College campus of the UHI, who is the only Scottish artist ever to become a member of all UK Royal Academies.
