Background: In times of crisis, art provides an outlet for many to express their feelings, emotions and experiences. We collected art-research works to answer the question of how to best sustain life on earth under pandemic lock-down conditions.

Objectives: Starting from a multimodal research perspective, this poster outlines how visual, art-research work can be analysed in a systematic review context.

Methods: We propose three different analytical techniques preceding an integrative synthesis of art-research work; thematic analysis, iconographic analysis and art- and design-related analysis.

Results: We argue that it is in the exercise of combining different analytical strategies that new synergies for integrative syntheses of dynamic art-research work are created. To prevent a loss of information, multimodal types of syntheses should consider the full range of visual, literary, sonic, tactile and multimodal dimensions of expression.

Conclusions: Modes of representation should be adapted to the nature of the evidence included. This poster includes a visual of an online gallery in which art-research evidence can be stored and an example of how visual and performative art-research work can be merged with narrative accounts of evidence to produce an original audio-visual synthesis outcome.

Patient, public and/or healthcare consumer involvement: The integrative, audio-visual synthesis outcome is accessible on social media as part of our public outreach plan.