People have been sharing their ‘defining piece of Covid era art’ and these 16 will take you straight back to those deeply strange lockdown days
Five years ago, on the 2nd December 2020, the nation had just come out of the second Covid lockdown and we were sent hurtling towards the horrors of the peak of the outbreak, belatedly resulting in the third and final lockdown enforced on 6th January 2026. Looking back, it all seems like a crazy fever dream. Did it really happen?
Luckily (or perhaps not), there’s plenty of evidence of just how unhinged it all was. Twitter user frye asked their followers for instances of ‘Covid era art’ and the replies took us right back to those crazy, hazy lockdown days of 2020.
what’s the defining piece of covid era art?
— frye (@___frye) April 21, 2025
1.
The makeup influencer who became captain tom. pic.twitter.com/N42nB6JdiT
— dan barker (@danbarker) April 24, 2025
2.
— debased (@diogenic_) April 22, 2025
3.
— Septimius Nicotinus (@SNicotinus) April 21, 2025
4.
Boris Johnson clapping the NHS with bloody hands, by @wefail pic.twitter.com/jqAlWKL38j
— Codex (@codexeditor) April 21, 2025
5.
Here’s my portrait of Chris Whitty from tonight’s @Alan_Measles show. #C4ArtClub pic.twitter.com/KCMunCOr0i
— Joe Lycett (@joelycett) April 27, 2020
6.
DEEP BREATHS BORIS https://t.co/RwKLqkLe4I pic.twitter.com/rFbgfKq5v9
— Jake (@jakeperry97) April 23, 2025
7.
https://t.co/lu64dIgA5w pic.twitter.com/9Tz6ectLy1
— Our Rach (@our_rach) April 24, 2025
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When the pubs re-open!! https://t.co/Djm9hKYSq6 pic.twitter.com/kHkChtoccw
— Ruth Husko (@dank_ackroyd) April 24, 2025