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EXTINCTION REBELLION AT THE HELL CENTRE

Shout out to everyone at the Extinction Rebellion protests today, in particular to the guy who super glued himself to the door at the Shell HQ with a copy of the anti-Shell logo I designed for my #burnthefuture project. It was also part of a banner they hung from the front of the building (see below). Very happy with that! If any activists ever need print quality files of my work for protests just get in touch.

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NEWCASTLE

My solo exhibition at The Cluny in Newcastle opened on Thursday and runs until the 27th May. Thanks to everyone who made it down, and thanks to Ettrick Scott for curating the show and playing live with the excellent Jazz Riot. Thanks also to Joel Thomson for designing the invites and posters, Steven Brown for hanging the work, John M Hayward for driving to London and back to pick it up, Ross Lewis for sound engineering the gig and giving us all a lift home after, and of course to The Cluny itself, a venue I’d last visited 12 years ago with my old band Shitdisco, (noisy video below.)

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DEFUND THE DAILY MAIL

I started adding these stickers to the products of companies who help fund racist propaganda by advertising in the Daily Mail. If you’d like to get involved, you can download & print your own stickers or order pre-printed stickers here. The Daily Mail is one of the most vicious and dangerous purveyors of racist propaganda in the UK, and that danger spreads globally through its website. But like the rest of the media, the Mail’s ability to churn out racial hatred, misogyny and anti-LGBT bigotry is only made possible by the support of its advertisers. I started adding these stickers to the products of companies who help fund racist propaganda by advertising in the Daily Mail. If you’d like to get involved, you can download & print your own stickers or order pre-printed stickers here. The Daily Mail is one of the most vicious and dangerous purveyors of racist propaganda in the UK, and that danger spreads globally through its website. But like the rest of the media, the Mail’s ability to churn out racial hatred, misogyny and anti-LGBT bigotry is only made possible by the support of its advertisers.

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IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST

A poster I designed about IBM’s direct role in the Holocaust has gone up across New York, inc opposite the headquarters of IBM North America. The research on which this poster was based on was from Edwin Black’s excellent, yet harrowing book ‘IBM and the Holocaust‘. Thomas J Watson, CEO of IBM at the time even received a medal from Hitler for his services to the Third Reich. Watson himself directly profited from the Holocaust, taking 1% on all IBM profits. IBM have named one of their current AI projects ‘Watson’ in honour of him.⁣ For unsettling added context, the IBM HQ is neighbours with Trump Tower

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GREAT WAR

Very happy to say my ‘Great War’ print has been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum for their poster collection. They have the original 1915 poster already so it should make for a good companion piece. It appeared in bus stops last year as part of a project in collaboration with Veterans For Peace UK marking 100 years since the end of the senseless slaughter of WWI. I’ve made a very limited run of 30 of these prints available on my website: https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page/great-war-limited-edition-giclee-print You can support my work on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/spellingmistakescostlives

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YEMEN

These posters I drew have started appearing on the underground thanks to Special Patrol Group. They were inspired by Jeremy Hunt talking about us sending aid to Yemen to deal with the consequences of the bombs we sold to drop on Yemen.A lot of the weapons we sold to Saudi Arabia were made by MBDA, which is a missile company co-owned by Airbus and BAE Systems.As well as the thousands killed in the US/UK backed war in Yemen, the naval blockade by Saudi Arabia is causing a famine the UN has described as the deadliest in decades, and that 8 million people are “right on the brink of famine”. The US has dispatched ships to reinforce the blockade.The Saudis rely on UK and US support for the bombing campaign, we have military personnel over there picking targets, processing intelligence, refuelling and rearming planes. The British military has also been training Saudi troops to fight in Yemen and teaching battlefield tactics to Saudi officers.The UK sending £4 million of aid is pointless while we still support and encourage the causes of that famine. We need to end our support for this war and put and end to the blockade immediately. 🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪 #Subvertising #ArmsTrade #Military

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2018

2018 has mostly been a year in which I fraudulently impersonated corporations and governments. It was a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone who made it happen and who supported, bought, and shared my work. I really fucking appreciate it. Here’s some of my favourite bits. SHELL / HELL After taking part in an anti-Shell greenwashing subvertising campaign, organised by Brandalism, Shell sent me a cease and desist regarding some Hell branded merch in my online shop. Without the necessary means to fight them in court I used the one legal tool at my disposal: sarcasm. For some reason it worked. (see below) In the end they stopped replying and left me to it. Since then I started selling a black version of the t-shirt with all profits going to anti-fracking organisations in the UK. There are still some left here. Here’s an article I wrote for the New Internationalist about Shell’s greenwashing festival ‘Make the Future’, our subvertising response to it and Shell’s legal threats against me. I later found out Shell had added me to a list of anti-Shell artists (thanks guys). THE SUN While on residency with RRU News I attempted to sabotage The Sun’s advertising revenue with a fake leaflet sent to over 200 people working in the marketing department’s of The Sun’s advertisers. The card sets out a new pricing system for advertisers, in which they can pay more to have their advert placed directly next to the most attention grabbing terror stories. You can read the full leaflet here. MINI DAILY MAIL As part of the RRU residency I hand drew a Mini Daily Mail and gave it out on the streets of Liverpool. I then did a Kickstarter to fund a reprint, added more pages, and sold almost 1500 copies. You can read […]

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REMEMBER

I have work in the Intervention group show at Hackney Creative Social Club from 1-22 Dec. Then next Friday 7th Dec at WAR gallery it’s the (rescheduled) launch exhibition for my Mini Daily Mail, & where I’ll also be showing various other projects I’ve done this year. That runs until Feb. 

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MINI DAILY MAIL LAUNCH PARTY

Launch party/exhibition of my mini Daily Mail at my gallery/studio WAR in south east London. All welcome. Facebook event. LAUNCH PARTY 7TH DEC Opening night 6:30pm-late Exhibition runs until 11/2/19 WAR Gallery 16 Eltham Road London SE12 8TF 10 min on 321 or 178 bus from Lewisham. 10 min walk from Lee station, 15 min walk from Blackheath, Hither Green stations. From East London get Overground to New Cross Gate then 321 to Lee Green/ Old Tiger’s Head.

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