Conceptual nominee

This body of work explores my personal experiences during the 2020 coronavirus lockdowns. The fear, anxiety, and introspection.

Tammy Swarek is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on photography, painting, and sculpture who lives in El Dorado, Arkansas. Her work is deeply emotional, and is often is inspired by her own life experiences, as well as those of her son with autism, and her mother with Alzheimer’s. Swarek is most known for her work featuring adoptable dogs from her local animal shelter. Her series “Shelter Pets Project” became an international hit in 2016 and was published across the globe.