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Artwork reflecting the experiences of people with Diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic

Inventory Number 18508


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.18508

Brief Description
Commissioned as part of https://diabetescovid.art/, a project funded by the OU PER Seed Fund and organised by Oxford University's Jamie Hartman-Boyce. The project invited people with diabetes to submit art or written work of any form, reflecting on their unique experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The artwork is designed for viewers to handle and explore by lifting the layers to reveal more underneath.
Subject
COVID-19
Item type
Object
Provenance
Commissioned as part of https://diabetescovid.art/ and donated by Jamie Hartman-Boyce.
Physical material
Cotton and wood
Physical technique
Print
Object type
Artwork
Dimensions
Diameter: 150mm Width: 1010mm Weight: 0.85kg
Inventory No
18508
Accession Number
2022-12

Description

Layers of white semi-opaque fabric are printed with the artistic responses of diabetes sufferers to the pandemic and layered attached to a wooden pole.

Artists description of materials: Transferred print (through inkjet print and ironing) on 100% cotton (single side adhesive) and wood. The fabric layers are not separable since they are sewn tightly.