'If Covid comes back, I want to go to space': a creative response to lockdown 

A series of artworks created by young people during the pandemic expresses what they found uniquely challenging about being in lockdown

Pictured (L-R) at the launch of the Little Houses Exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks are Johanna Visser from Stoneybatter Youth Service, and Jasmine Stott Lee, one of the young artists featured.

They talked about missing swimming, about liking to look out their window at the birds, about how reading Harry Potter books helped. One girl felt lucky to have her cats, Fluffy and Fluffball, for company. A boy said he was ‘lying in bed dreaming about myself playing football’.

These are some of the experiences and feelings recounted by young people to accompany artworks they created while living in isolation from their peers during lockdown. An exhibition of the artworks has just opened at the National Museum of Ireland.