The Right to Protest, UnPrivate View

The Right To Protest is a timely, unmissable exhibition that shows how art and design can drive real change.

Featuring over 200 iconic posters from two of the largest private collections in the UK, and new works by influential designers and artists, including Kennard Phillipps, Ackroyd & Harvey, and Stuart Semple, the exhibition is an antidote to the branded more polished and boring world of London Design Festival.

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It couldn’t come at a better time.

The fundamental right to protest is under increasing threat, from governments worldwide, including western democracies and in London itself.

This sits at odds with London being the self-proclaimed “design capital of the world,” since it has always had a radical edge.

Figures like Ken Garland penned manifestos warning of the creeping power of commercialism, while 1980s collectives including the Paddington Printshop – whose posters feature in the exhibition – empowered communities through visual activism:

“Among the most compelling burst of creative energy in the realm of the political poster post-1968, the body of work created by Paddington Printshop in the 1970s and 1980s is as fresh and relevant as it was 40 years ago.” Boo Horray, New York Art Book Fair, MOMA

The opening includes guided introductions to the work by the artists and designers.

The protest posters have never been seen together before (and may never be seen together again). Combined they tell a compelling tale of visual cultures contribution to protest movements dating from 1960s to the current day.

The posters are a curated selection from personal and private collections including two of the UK's largest, the Redshoes Poster Archive and Paddington Printshop Archive.

The exhibition also includes commissioned work.

Work from artists and collectives including Kennard Phillipps, Ackroyd & Harvey, Ocean Rebellion, Alexis Bamforth, Jo Barnfield, Ruth Beale, Mr. Bingo, Blacklodge, Anthony Burrill, Kristian Buus, Elly Clarke, Paul Davis, Matt Frame, Miles Glyn, Jonny Hannah, Joe Hesketh, Magnus Irving, Krime, Colum Leith, Rada Lewis, Daniel Lismore, Richard Mackness, Brian McHenry, Pig Meat, John Phillips, Aidan Saunders, Stuart Semple, Frank Riot, Clive Russell, Gavin Turk, Wankers of the World, Phil Wrigglesworth and many more.

The Right to Protest will also display the world's largest screenprint, made by Ocean Rebellion to represent the 150 metre wide jaws of a bottom trawling net, which was saved from arrest by a sit-in (or on) by protestors and bystanders at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice this year.

The evening is the beginning of a series of events.

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