, is available for preorder now with a follow-up event loosely planned for the autumn. Speaking about its timely arrival, Lewis reflects on the project’s origins, marrying the personal with the political, and donating all preorder profits to the NHS.In 2015, I was invited by the arts charity CW+ to undertake an artist residency at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Obviously a lot has changed since you first embarked on the project, with regards to the NHS and COVID-19. Has this changed how you view the images at all? I’m not sure if my relationship to the images has changed, the issues that first motivated me have been ongoing the whole time: government underfunding of the service, driving it into the ground to allow private companies to swoop in. That’s not new. But what COVID has done more widely is put into sharp focus how much we need and rely on the NHS, and how mistreated it’s been by the government. If there’s any silver-lining, it’s that hopefully people won’t stand for this anymore.