While at art school, the budding artist doesn’t have time to worry about entering the art world. It’s a period of undiluted self absorption, and rightfully so. They’re learning about what their practice means to them and how they want to present themselves to the world. Graduation, in contrast, presents the vast chasm of everything, everyone, and everywhere that they don’t yet know. Their cohort suddenly seems a lot smaller as the artist now has to rely on their own resources to navigate the complexity and competition of a career in the real world.

Now imagine entering the art world at the beginning of a COVID lockdown. What do you do with everything you’ve learnt? You were so excited to show your work, meet people, maybe collaborate? The best you’ve got is Zoom.