Emerging from Lockdown. The Coventry Grid Project | 2021
The Grid Project records our urban environments in photographs. It uses maps to identify the locations in a systematic way: photographers then visit the grid points and respond to what they find. For this project 198 photos were produced by people who live, work or visited Coventry during the first half of August 2021.
The Grid Project’s mission statement is:
A photographic grid is a collaborative venture which aims to make a meaningful visual statement about an environment by adopting a systematic approach. What does this place look like? What does this place feel like?
The grid imposes a system that may sometimes locate the picturesque but is just as likely to find the industrial, the rugged, the new, old, boring, threatening or just ugly.
Previous Grid Projects focused on the built environment: Emerging from Lockdown was different, as the title suggests, because a more people-centred approach would be more relevant.
Numerous Grid Projects have been completed since 2002 and have been exhibited in locations such as The Mailbox, Birmingham, The Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, Tate Liverpool, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, and The NAEA Gallery in The Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
The project is run by Dave Allen and can be followed at www.thegridproject.org.uk and on social media.
