Platform Issue 2: The New Normal

Our aim for this issue of PLATFORM is to distil such an inventively challenging time
in history, whilst foregrounding the talents of our volunteers who managed to
create during lockdown. At a time when the world was in flux, deciding to focus on
the ideology of ‘normality’ was a chance to make sense of a seemingly senseless
world.

Through PLATFORM, we attempted to portray our individual ‘norms’ and then
asked others replicate their own. What emerged was a personal, intimate and
collective series of artworks. Embracing the unique challenges of lockdown has
made each and every one of us re-evaluate what we hold dear. With the introduction
of the ‘New Normal’ digital age, we have been forced to adapt and readjust not just
socially, but creatively too. Pushed to our imaginative limits, we have found
innovative and intricate ways of creative expression. In this way, has lockdown been
a creative experiment?

All proceeds from the purchase of this issue will be donated to Independent Food Aid Network.