Scottish Lockdown Sketchbooks

The gallery exhibition below at An Lantair in Scotland looks like quite an amazing presentation of sketchbooks. The sketchbooks were created during the lockdown, and of course with pandemic precautions continuing, it’s difficult for many people to view it in person. But you can see it online in their virtual gallery.

[An Lantair’s] Lockdown Sketchbooks exhibition is the collected results of a rather remarkable project. At the beginning of lockdown sketchbooks were sent out to over 100 participants. This was then followed up over the course of a month with emails setting a daily challenge. The completed sketchbooks were then sent back and put together into a show. If you can find your way on the An Lanntair website to the “virtual tour” of the exhibition – it’s not that easy, but do persevere – you can see the enormous variety of the results and the evident enthusiasm the project inspired. The challenges included such things as “the middle of the night,” or “the contents the fridge.” There is humour, poetry, a lot of skill and much else in the very diverse results. A selection of the responses from people who have taken part is also included and these are as interesting as the drawings themselves. The whole thing was clearly a big success and at a time when there wasn’t much of that about.

Read more: Art reviews: Lockdown Sketchbooks at An Lantair | Jane MacNeill at Kilmorack Gallery | Alexander Moffat & Helen Bellany at Junor Gallery

One thought on “Scottish Lockdown Sketchbooks”

  1. This is such a good idea. It’s interesting to see how varied the responses to the challenges were. I really appreciate they’ve put it online but it is rather hard to navigate!

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