The new Hurstville Museum and Gallery digital exhibition, Capturing COVID: A global pandemic through a local lens, records the impressions of the local impact of COVID-19 through photography and personal stories.
Featuring the photographs of local artist and former Artist in Residence, Elder, the exhibition highlights his evocative images, using light and dark to replace paint on canvas, and blend physical experiences, beauty and mundane reality during this time.
His works combine the changing face of business, public spaces and people's lives as a result of COVID-19, at night and during the day.
The exhibition also features quotes and excerpts from the Georges River Libraries '100 Diaries' project. 100 diaries were sent out to members of the public in May 2020 to record, in text or as visual scrapbooks, people's experiences of COVID-19 and its impact on their day-to-day lives.
The resulting diaries are a mix of sad, poignant, reflective and humorous observations of lockdown.
On display between October 15 and November 15, Capturing COVID: A global pandemic through a local lens will be launched digitally on Global Handwashing Day, October 15.
This is a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness about the importance of hand hygiene, especially through handwashing with soap.
The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical role hand hygiene plays in disease transmission and public health interventions including hand washing.
Capturing COVID: A global pandemic through a local lens digital exhibition
Date: October 15 - November 15, 2020.
Cost: Free event
Location: Digital exhibition can be viewed at www.georgesriver.nsw.gov.au/HMG,
with select pop up public displays over the month.
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