Anthony Downey

Self Other. Initiated during the first national lockdown in spring 2020, Autograph commissioned 10 UK-based visual artists to create new work responding to the wider contexts of the Covid-19 crisis.Using primarily photography and film, the artists reflect carefully and critically, often very personally, on the impact of the pandemic, their lived experiences, and the inevitability of change.To contextualise these new artist commissions, we invited 10 writers poets, scholars and curators to produce a short essay in response, and published a series of interviews with each artist discussing their practice.Presented together in this