Tag: Protest

Time for Magic: A Shamanarchist’s Guide to the Wheel of the Year – book review

Best known for his album covers for the Sex Pistols, Reid was an anarchist who was also fascinated by Druidry. This book is an entrancing tribute to his life and work
Rafael Pérez Evans – interview: ‘Food contains a lot of emotion’

The artist talks about growing up in a farming community in rural Spain, queer and rural shame, and the importance of reuniting living, thinking and making through a practice that disrupts
Clare Patey – interview: ‘People don’t take humour seriously enough’

Clare Patey talks about 25 years of creating and producing powerful, participatory, public artworks on climate change, plastic waste and loss of empathy
Peter Kennard – interview: ‘Montage is about allowing people to think critically’

Ahead of a new exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery, the celebrated political artist talks of photomontage, protest, art schools and image-making in an age of mass reproduction
Protest and Remembrance: Miriam de Búrca | Joy Gerrard | Mary Griffiths | Barbara Walker

Drawings by four contemporary female artists explore notions of protest and remembrance, from anti-Brexit marches to unconsecrated Irish burial sites, and forgotten black soldiers to former collieries in the north of England
Joy Gerrard – interview: ‘I’m interested in how we witness and interpret these events’

In her depictions of mass protests, Gerrard aims to make visible those who attend. For Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, she focuses on anti-Trump and anti-Brexit marches
Miriam de Búrca – interview: ‘The sites themselves are very charged: very beautiful but also very tragic’

With her detailed drawings of plants growing on the graves of Ireland’s excommunicates and other unblessed souls, De Búrca, now on show in Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, hopes to restore the dignity of those the Catholic church abandoned
Cinthia Marcelle: The Family in Disorder: Truth or Dare

In her first major UK solo exhibition, the Brazilian artist shows the importance of collective action in an exciting experiment in the occupation and transformation of publicly accessible space
Richard Hamilton: ‘Protest pictures’

Inverleith House, Edinburgh 31 July-12 October 2008