Musea Foundation featured Lizz Daniels' Hats in a Pandemic exhibition in 2020. See the full article here.
Extract:
A note from Lizz, aka The ‘Subversive Granny’
“These hats came into being at the beginning of self-quarantine in March 2020, when ‘normal’ ceased to be normal and where everything took on a strange perspective. It was a time when I felt a certain sense of powerlessness creeping in. As such, It was the perfect time to embark on a creative journey such as this.
Everything fell into place easily; the idea of using the hats as a visual expression of what I was feeling during a world crisis, the availability of materials to make them, all of which I had been collecting for years and above all time, unfettered time without pressure to bring them to life. My creative imagination went into top gear and there was no stopping me.
The first hat in the series, “Subversive Granny” stems directly out of the the challenges and confusion I was facing at the onset of the pandemic. It was hard to sort fact from fiction, and with that energy informing me, I went ahead and made my tinfoil hat creation. When I mustered up the courage to share the image online, I was surprised and pleased that people connected with it. This kicked off a 60-day creative project in which I committed to creating art every day, producing an incredible series of fun and satirical hats to express myself through the challenges of the early pandemic days."
