Alone Together: A Spectrum from Isolation to Solitude

By SPIKED: Leonie Bradley ARE, Jess Bugler RCA, Prerna Chandiramani

A response to the shared yet unique experience of lockdown, “Alone Together” is a print installation, which represents aloneness as a spectrum from isolation to solitude.

Loneliness is a painful feeling of something missing. Aloneness, on the other hand, has a breadth of connotations from the joy of solitude to isolation as an enforced state.

Each artist responds differently to the experiences along this spectrum. Their responses are interwoven but individual: Bugler using the theme of wooded enclosures; Bradley, the symbolism of keys; and Chandiramani, language and folding.

The installation itself forms a curved line with the artworks creating an enclosure which can be entered and viewed from inside or out. The ‘solitude end’ of the spectrum is wide and inviting, the ‘isolation end’ tightly wound and claustrophobic.

The exhibition will tour and is supported using public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.