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Danielle Desouza

Quilts created during Covid pandemic to be celebrated in new exhibition

The quilts are to be exhibited in Bermondsey in south-east London in May (Richard Kenyon/Henrietta Hill/PA) -

Quilts created during the Covid pandemic to show “beauty can be born from terrible circumstances” are to feature in a new exhibition.

When the Covid-19 pandemic began in 2020, Richard Kenyon, an employment lawyer at Fieldfisher, thought up a plan to create a sense of community and reduce isolation through quilting, which he first grew to love in 2014 after suffering a major heart attack and having a quadruple heart bypass.

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