Meet the Artist: Christina Inkster
Remembering Together: Shetland have appointed their artist to co-create memorials with communities. Meet Christina Inkster.
Christina Inkster is a local Artist and Support Worker, born and raised in the Shetland Isles. She studied Fine Art at the University of Dundee and has over 5 years experience of co-creating with communities locally, nationally and internationally. She has worked with: Shetland Arts, Creative Scotland and The Scottish Government; and has exhibited in: Shetland, Edinburgh, Glasgow and London.
Christina Inkster has an inherent caring disposition which she uses to support others, nurturing creativity and empowering the self.
Christina Inkster
Christina says: “I worked through the pandemic as a frontline key worker, supporting older adults that live at home with aspects of their daily life and living; providing support with: social, emotional, mental, physical and spiritual health and well-being, as well as providing palliative and end of life care.
During this time I experienced extreme solitude and isolation as a lone worker. I came to understand that being connected socially is vital to our overall health and well-being, as well as quality of life.
I hope that I never again have to feel that my very presence and proximity to another could be a potential threat to someone’s life. We lived in isolation and separation during Covid and it is my wish and hope through this project that we begin to reconnect with one another and in doing so, comfortably and safely share and validate each experiences of Covid so that we can all respectfully learn more about: who we are, what we lived through, what we missed out on and who we share our homeland with; so that we can move forward together with more care and compassion for each other and our community. “