Change Everything

This show titled Change Everything, presents contemporary artists advocating for change through protest, and highlights the power of art in documenting and driving our future. Co-curated by Anthony Burrill and the depot_ in Shoreditch, the exhibition brings together artists, collectives and makers who are instigating social change through their work.

Following a pertinent year of worldwide upheaval and political unrest, the works shown encapsulate the ability of protest art to shift the narrative and capture the potential of a collective moment. Working with charity partner Music Declares Emergency, and incorporating a month-long events programme, the exhibition hopes to itself become a catalyst for change and conversation.

The exhibition exhibits original, limited editioned, new and archived works in textile, prints and photography. All works are for sale and parts of profits are donated to charity partner Music Declares Emergency, alongside other charities where relevant. 

The Private view was yesterday evening 

It was great to venture out and about to what was my first foray to a private view since the Covid crisis.

 

The artists collaborators and charity partners are as follows: Anthony Burrill,  Aida Wilde,  Brunel Johnson,  Fraser Muggeridge, Jeremy Deller, Joe Kibria, Kate Harrison, Music Declares Emergency,  Paris 68 Redux, People Dem Collective, Projections on Walls, Sarah Boris, Sarah-Joy Ford, Theo Hersey and Wired Magazine.

Pictured above are the A1 size prints by Anthony Burrill, which are silkscreen printed by Harvey Lloyd Screens on our Redeem 100% Recycled 80gsm, which looks and feels just right.

Thanks to Anthony for his lovely note and inviting me to the private view. You can buy the prints HERE.

https://www.thedepot.co.uk/

http://harveylloydscreens.co.uk/

https://anthonyburrill.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 05.11.2021

Grunts & Grapples!

Yesterday evening, I was invited to the opening of a new exhibition at the Tunbridge Wells Museum. Grunts and Grapples is an exhibition which celebrates the popularity of live and televised wrestling from the 1950's up until the 1990's.

"Greetings Grapple Fans" was the opening line by Kent Walton, the wrestling commentator on ITV's World of Sport, first broadcast on the new ITV in 1955 up to 1989 with audiences peaking at twelve million!

Wrestling was a central part of British national life in this period with iconic figures such as Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy appearing in hundreds of UK town halls and theatres night after night as well as featuring on TV. Through posters, photographs, souvenirs and costumes, the exhibition reveals the origins of wrestling’s interplay of sport and spectacle and the development of personas.

The exhibition features the original costumes of the legendary wrestlers Big Daddy and Adrian Street together with a mask from the mysterious Kendo Nagasaki. A Pathé film from 1964 showing women’s wrestling at the Victoria Hall, Hawkhurst is shown, alongside posters and programmes.

Also featuring in the exhibition is So Many Ways To Hurt You, The Life and Times of Adrian Street, 2010; a film by Turner prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller.

The show is curated by Kerry William Purcell, writer, theorist and historian. He has written and published books on art director and designer Alexey Brodovitch, photographer Weegee, and Josef Muller-Brockmann, all published by Phaidon. He is a Senior Lecturer in Design History at the University of Hertfordshire.

Exhibition design and graphics is by Jess Harris.

The exhibition runs until January and entry is free.

http://www.tunbridgewellsmuseum.org/
http://www.gruntsandgrapples.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 16.09.2016