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Well Now WTF? is essentially an exhibition of GIFs.

Its maximalist look fills your computer screen with constantly-looping, brightly colours moving image. In lockdown, I found that my attention span had worn thin, especially once we were going back into one. So, really, a GIF exhibition just makes sense.

For my art history essay, I researched Tracey Emin. I was already a big fan of her work, but thought I'd collect some images of her work together to keep on my blog too.

I especially love her 'confessional quilts', and other textile work. I've incorporated some embroidered text into my project outcome, but definitely want to return to it in third year.

I'd already heard of Tai Shani due to the iconic splitting of the Turner Prize between her and three other artists.

hI really liked that she said she was originally going to show us a general collection of her art, but then decided to just show what she's been up to during lockdown.

She outlined how, at the beginning of lockdown, her next door neighbours loaned her their flat to use as a studio. She bought a watercolor set off Amazon and created quite loose, free paintings.

My favourite thing of her's was definitely TRANSMISSIONS. A 'TV show', where each artist was commissioned to create art for a designated episode, and use it to do whatever they please. This also allowed the artists to be paid during the difficult times of lockdown.

Of all the virtual exhibits I've seen/heard of, I hadn't seen anyone else creating a DIY scheduled TV show. It seems like such a fun way to exhibit work, especially since there wasn't a set brief, apart from it being fitting with the format.

Even though we're all anxiously awaiting things to get back to normal, I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing for the format of online art to have been pushed to the next level. Whilst gallery shows are great, not everyone is able to get to them, even pre-pandemic, so exhibitions online ultimately open up your art to a larger audience. There's also the added bonus of permanence: the ability to leave your virtual exhibit up and running for as long as you want, opposed to the usual few days max at a gallery space.