RIGHT TO PROTEST EXHIBITION
I had the pleasure of being invited by Left Cultures to make new work for "The Right to Protest Exhibition". My letterpress response focuses on advice should you be arrested during a protest.
Taking place during London Design Festival as a counterpoint to the more commercial and conservative event.
“Never before has there been a greater need for an alternative vision for society, with the mainstream media co-opted by a small group of billionaires to project their ideals of what society should be for their own narrow selfish interests. How many property shows are there? How many shows are there promoting celebrity culture? How many law and order shows are there?Stories that give another account of society’s injustices or that celebrate everyday life have over time been squeezed out of the national dialogue.” Left Cultures.
The brief asked artists to submit a poster that expresses ‘The Right to Protest’ – not an easy ask!
The exhibition features 200 pieces of work from private collections and highlights the work of activist design groups such as Paddington Printshop, See Red Women's Workshop and Red Dragon Collective, alongside new work from Anthony Burrill, Mr Bingo and participatory radical acts and workshops during the show.
I'll hand over to Clive Russell here :
"The London Design Festival celebrates the commercial world of design. Which is fine, everyone needs to make some money right?
But if this commercialism is responsible for fuelling many of our modern dilemmas and crises, what does this say about the design world and about LDF? If design is the conscious process of shaping and making our world, then the design community must address and help to solve the most profound problems which we, and the planet, face."
Posters will be available for free download soon, you can find more info here: Museum of Unrest
- RIGHT TO PROTEST LEFTCULTURES Posters
- Creative Review
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