Stay at Home, Save Lives

Ishbel Myerscough
Text by Hettie Judah and Chantal Joffe, 2026
This publciation was published alongisde the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, Stay at Home, Save Lives. The exhibition centred on a series of ink drawings created in 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, presented alongside more recent still life and portrait paintings. Together, these works reflect on the psychological strain of isolation, tracing the quiet tensions of the pandemic years, whilst also acknowledging how life continued after this period, as the steady hum of domesticity returned to Myerscough’s home, which also functions as her studio.