IS IT ART – PROJECTS THAT ARE ART, COULD BE ART AND ARE NOT YET DEFINED
AS ART
Co-curation and promotion of The Right to Protest exhibition, held during Shoreditch Design Triangle. Featuring newly commissioned and archival protest posters and art from the 1970s to now. The show pitched itself against the polished and safe world of the London Design Festival and encouraged designers to be inspired by dissent. Also includes an art piece with 3 words by me (make Peace Louder) and finished poster by Anthony Burrill.
Fundraising project, with text handed over to Anthony Burrill and then Jimmy Turrell who created this limited edition screenprint, via Jealous Gallery, for the Red Cross’ efforts in the aftermath of the Syria and Turkey earthquake. Sold out in hours, thankfully.
Is it Art? Well it was in an art gallery so, yeah, stop asking. Let’s not mention that it was in our own art gallery, KK Outlet. On behalf of TFL, no less. The Twitter Machine (now it’d be called the X Machine) took the temperature of London via #dearlondon. Twitter users were invited to upload their thoughts on the capital city which were then fed into and printed out by the Roundel shaped Machine, created with creative technologist, Florian Dussopt, and a bunch of stamp printers. Did it work? It didn’t not work. This was an experiment as part of the Language of London campaign, in celebration of Tfl’s iconic Johnston Font.
A single poster, open for interpretation by graffiti artists invited to add their ‘king message just before the King’s Coronation.
The Royal Family make quite a few appearances here, but call it a coincidence due to a love of subverting both language and souvenir plates. In this series, dating back to Will and Kate’s wedding and all the way up to Harry and Meghan’s, we produced tens of thousands of plates for John Lewis, after our mock-ups went globally viral. The plates, in case you are wondering, were dishwasher proof.
Bringing art to protest placards during a recent environmental march in London.