At the beginning of lockdown in March 2020 Woolley was commissioned to produce a series of images that responded to the unfolding events of covid. The work needed to be viewed virtually, which shaped the production of the work away from sculpture/installation from the gallery and creating photographic self-portraits, sharing them to online audiences.

The materials for the masks were all collected from Woolley's daily walks where she spent lockdown in the Cheshire countryside in England on her family’s farm. The flowers and plants were fleeting; changing as the seasons passed. As the events of the pandemic unfolded, the images became a documentation of the artist in a particular moment in a particular time, and a particular place, her home land.

The meaning of the materials plays an important role in the creation of each piece. In ‘Sneeze’, delicate, ephemeral dandelion clocks are transformed to represent the hidden virus as something that is gently drifting through the air, yet spreading like a weed. ‘Rainbow Meadow’ features a variety of multicoloured wildflowers picked in the early Spring 2020 when, every Thursday evening, the country would go outside to clap for the NHS. The rainbow mixed colour palette was a representation of this new pandemic symbol. Other masks in the series were created from materials such as nettles; thistles; buttercups; lavender; wild chamomile; forget-me-nots; foxgloves; poppies; ivy berries. Chosen for their various meanings, nettles and thistles incite a sense of danger because they sting and are prickly to touch, whilst foxgloves and ivy berries are poisonous. Ivy is parasitic, it takes over and suffocates its host, like a virus. Opposite to these, lavender and chamomile are used to denote a sense of harmony and calmness in uncertain times. Forget-me-nots and poppies, symbolic of remembrance, are beautiful yet macabre reminders of the tragic loss and mourning of many loved ones.

The work gained highly commended in the Sustainability First Art Prize 2020 and was selected for the cover of the publication and exhibition at Bermondsey Project Space, London (July 1 -10th 2021). Her work was selected as Axis Art Highlight of the Week with her foxglove mask image ‘Poison’, featured in the Wales Arts Review, the New York Magazine, the Politiken newspaper (Denmark), and the poster cover of the Ty Pawb Open with her image ‘Rainbow Meadow’, which later went on to win the Ty Pawb People’s Choice Prize. The images also won first place in The Art of The Mask competition with Bluegirl Gallery, were chosen as artist of the month by Outside In, and by the magazine Le Document (November 2020), and later won the Grosvenor Museum Open with the image ‘Sneeze’ (January 2022). Woolley has exhibited the project in galleries in New York, Miami, Denver, and London as well as several virtual exhibitions. Other publications include Creative Responses To The Pandemic in the Cultural Programs of The National Academy of Science (Washington DC) and In Situ; a global e-catalogue of artistic response to the pandemic created in situ/ in place.

Woolley has been interviewed several times for a doctoral paper on mask wearing during the pandemic at The University of Oxford for an academic thesis on Cultural Representations of The Facemask, and also by Dr Hannah Harry at The University of Chester for an academic fashion journal 'Dressing Through Pandemics' in Fashion Style and Popular Culture, Vol 13. 1/2, published in 2025.