The Black Period documents a significant three year interdisciplinary working period for artist Shaun Wilson, exploring allegorical responses to the COVID-19 pandemic through painting, digital, NFT art, and moving images. From observations of relationship breakdowns, despair, sorrow, illness and death, the works convey an extraordinary humanity in its assessment of the pandemic era. Drawing from a diverse range of influences, such as colour field painting, Metamodernism, and the new sincerity movement, Wilson's aesthetic plays out an intelligence in the works posited as a uniquely honest account of troubled times.