Posts Tagged ‘art’
Action Against Drug Dealers
Community activists erect spoof street signs highlighting the levels of local E2 drug dealing, apparently the cheapest heroin in Europe. The anti drugs street art campaign called the Columbia Road Cartel has been commissioned by the Weavers Community Action Group. Shoreditch, East London.
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Sylvia Pankhurst Mural
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Love Music – Hate Racism Mural
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Resistance Is Fertile – Exhibition
Resistance is Fertile
6 – 28 June 2015
Preview: Friday 5 June 2015, 6-9pm
Resistance is Fertile is a timely exploration of protest and the art that it engenders. The exhibition brings together leading photographers, poets and protest artists that have highlighted social movements. The exhibition includes the Miners’ strike, environmental campaigns, Poll Tax demos and land rights. The exhibition not only examines how the act of protest inspires creativity but also looks at the plethera of visual patterns created by mass protest.
The exhibition includes a large installation of new 1.87 scale models for an on-going series of work, Riot in a Jam Jar, by artist Jimmy Cauty: “These ‘small world re-enactments’ depict past and future riots, reality blurred, all within a jam jar. The jam jar represents containment, violent disturbances served up in manageable doses like news bulletins; complex situations reduced to mantle piece ornaments.”
Resistance is Fertile also combines a stunning photography exhibit by some of the leading exponents of protest photography; including Tony Sleep‘s in depth documentation of Frestonia – the name adopted by the residents and squatters of Freston Road, London, when they attempted to secede from the UK in 1977.
Other contirbuting artists include: Jamie Reid, Billy Childish, Kate Evans, Emily Johns, Stig, David Hoffman, Tony Sleep, Jess Hurd, Alan Lodge, Antonio Olmos, Janine Wiedel, Andrew Testa, Zoe Broughton, Jason Parkinson, Gary Trotter, Nigel Dickinson, John Sturrock, Martin Mayer, David Mansell and John Harris – Report Digital.
In addition, films, protest archive, workshops, performances and talks from leading practitioners will create a vibrant festival feel and bring together many groups with a forum for discussion. Please visit our Resistance is Fertile Events Page for a full programme.
The exhibition is part of Low Carbon Oxford week.
Open: Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm
Venue: OVADA
Admission Free
[IMAGE: © Jess Hurd / DESIGN: Jonathon Place]
Kindly supported by:
The Line – DNA DL90
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Tower of London Poppies
Ceramic poppies fill the Tower of London moat. Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, an art installation created by artist Paul Cummins, marks one hundred years since the First World War and each poppy represents a British military fatality during the war. London.
Shot on commission for the Journalist magazine.
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Banksy Phone Tapping
Banksy phone tapping graffiti. Poplar, East London.
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Shuffle Festival
Art installation, part of the Shuffle Festival, art and film from Danny Boyle at St Clements Hospital, a disused Victorian mental health hospital. Formally a workhouse and infirmary, the site is now owned by the Homes & Communities Agency. Local campaigners are advocating that it become the site of the UK’s first urban Community Land Trust in the East End of London.
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Autumn Budget
Political artist and painter Kaya Mar outside Downing Street with a new painting of George Osborne for the Chancellors Autumn budget statement. London.
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