Protest Trail Treasure Hunt & Participate in pushing Plinth

Protest Treasure Hunt & Plinth push

Meet at Greatorex to push and be guided through the Protest Trail works, or wander in your own time. Artist and ecology catalyst Alexis Bamforth has made public art for social purpose for 30 years +. Here he presents 2008-2024 works addressing environmental reciprocity on the street.

Plinth push

25th September - Come join the action to help push this radical work through the streets of East London! Both controversial and unassuming, It topples anything human made from the plinth in favour of the ecology that supports us - denouncing a vast number of the world’s artworks and the status quo. Plinth will be pushed by the artist ..and you, through the streets, installed in the heart of London Design Festival, to later be pushed again along the Protest Trail to Greatorex Street. You will have the opportunity to hear from the artist about the works on the trail and engage passers by with Plinth itself.

About Plinth - First exhibited at Saatchi in 2023, this large heavy living work was pushed by the artist through the streets of London, installed covertly in Tate Britain, Frieze Sculpture then to a temporary home at Greatorex. It has since visited Hackney and will makes a new journey for The Right to Protest.Protest Trail & Treasure Hunt.

Above photos: Kristian Buus

Protest Treasure Hunt

Runs throughout the exhibition but in the streets of East London

19 -28th September - Walk the Protest Trail at your own pace seeking out Alexis Bamforth’s playful and serious interventions. Locations and clues as to the works topics, be they environmental or social will help you find them. Look out for onsite QR codes at each location.

Clues and locations for the hunt:

It’s Just A Flesh Wound, 2023

Outside Shoreditch Town Hall

This first aid may work on humans but not on trees. ‘’I’ll bite yer head off!’’

T-s hurt, 2024
Outside Shoreditch Town Hall

In support of high hedges ..not the money.

Seed Bank 002, 2028

Corner of Curtain Rd. & Rivington St.

Sow your oats or kill your neighbour.

Seedbanks 001, 003 & 004 were reappropriated safes that had been thrown out of East End sweatshops and became repositories for something much more valuable, harbouring heritage, non-hybrid seeds for community sharing.

Watering Nestlé, 2023

Corner of Garden Walk & Rivington St.

Watch what you feed the food that feeds yourselves.

From a series of three, also known for taking water from communities at risk of drought, not too dissimilar to AI data processing.

Watering Pepsico, 2023

Outside Protein Studios

Watch what you feed the food that feeds yourselves.

From a series of three, the biggest waste producers in the world, also known for causing water shortages in areas at risk of drought.

The Real Union Flag, 2020

Corner of Cheshire St. & Chiltern St.

The above title speaks for itself.

Jack, 2020

Corner of hanbury St. & Brick Lane

Devolution or evolution?

Water the Weeds, 2022

Greatorex Street

This has no collar but supports our ecological blue collar workers. Without them we are nothing.

Find, photograph all your finds, # and @alexis.bamforth_eec to receive a limited edition giclee print Jack or Real Union Flag on Hahnemuhle photo rag.

Get back to Greatorex Street to find these, and fantastic works by other artists:

- Mirror, 2024. This mirror covered in petroleum jelly was part of Bamforth’s installation Nor Any Drop To Drink, reflecting you the Ancient Mariner, and will now be installed as part of The Right to Protest.

- Bust, 2017. This bust Bust depicts purposefully poor representations of imperialism in a sea of sugar and cocoa.

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