Will Noble

Noel Fielding Has Started An Online Art Gallery - And The Submissions Are Amazing

As London's art galleries shutter up in light of the coronavirus, a cape-clad saviour arrives on the scene. His name? Noel Fielding.

Here is @joelycett runner up ! x x https://t.co/PDBkm3bKEj — noel fielding (@noelfielding11) March 15, 2020

The London-born artist, and star of The Mighty Boosh and Great British Bake Off, had the wonderful idea of starting an online Art Club to keep folk occupied while at home.

Every day, people are encouraged to post their homegrown artistic efforts on Twitter, with Fielding and his chums picking a winner. (Although there really are no losers.)

'Bird Wedding' By Isla - aged 8. X pic.twitter.com/oDInNcntyU — Ruth (@Roobird78) March 15, 2020

Kids are especially encouraged: their efforts include bird weddings, snow rainbows and parents hanging out with, erm Noel Fielding.

@noelfielding11 here’s a submission from my daughter (Isla aged 9). Apparently it’s shows me and (for some unknown reason) you. pic.twitter.com/NYsoEMAzpG — BVulliamy (@bvulliamy) March 15, 2020

As for the adults — they appear to be even more away with the fairies.

@noelfielding11 my daughters submission to Artclass Love - a snow rainbow pic.twitter.com/ceH8qtQbL6 — iGingerGamer (@iGingerGamer) March 15, 2020

Submissions include a puppet of a cat, made from that cat actual cat hair, dinosaurs eating spaghetti just before being wiped out by a meteorite, and a disc of salami nibbled into a snowflake. I mean, that's the kind of kook Fielding would have come up with in his Boosh days.

I love the sun pic.twitter.com/mGo5ef27Jb — well (@safemolly) March 15, 2020

Art Club, we reckon, is just the tonic in such times of upheaval.

@noelfielding11 LOVE for my 5 year old daughter is a rainbow and her family underneath it while we are showered with colours ❤️ 🌈 all the way from Qatar (we don’t see many rainbows here ☀️ 🌴 🐪)#artclub #Qatar pic.twitter.com/R0hV2nkUG0 — K C (@Treedums) March 15, 2020

We also reckon that when they start to reopen, some of London's galleries should consider displaying some of these works. They're already culturally significant, and we'd totally go and see pictures of seagulls with carbon fibre tail feathers, and a crotchet heart jellyfish.

@noelfielding11 Made a puppet of my cat out of my cat, I felted her hair 😹 #artclub pic.twitter.com/3UcLH3xUN3 — pickled egg girl (@Ruciee) March 15, 2020

In the meantime, you can check out the submissions — and enter one yourself — tagging @noelfielding11 on Twitter.

@noelfielding11 @joelycett LOVE! , by Lily and LUKE, using the log pile and garden detritus 😊 pic.twitter.com/Kq3mZZMGWw — Kathryn Hayman (@kjsparky) March 15, 2020

@noelfielding11 final submission: a LOVEly freshly nibbled salami snowflake! pic.twitter.com/Ar41hBM7Ds — Alice Gnodde (@aligno) March 15, 2020

By Liz age 41 pic.twitter.com/uGPGkHaU1e — Liz McCarthy (@Liz_McCarthy_) March 15, 2020

@noelfielding11 10 minute Kate bush , for there is no greater love pic.twitter.com/wOYgt1UoX7 — eva❕ (@naieves) March 15, 2020

Featured image: @safemolly

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