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SOLIDARITY WITH JEREMY CORBYN

Solidarity with @jeremycorbyn who has far more patience for the Labour Party than I ever will. Pictured here when he called in to the Hell Bus at @theworldtransformed last year. Im so angry about what the right wing ghouls who run Labour and the hacks in the press have done to Corbyn and the way they smeared our movement as cranks and racists, when we simply wanted a better world unleashed from the neoliberal death march. Now they’re doing the same thing again while telling us we’re Tory enablers if we don’t roll over and thank them for it. All this, while they reshape the party into one that actual racists will feel comfortable voting for. And not a peep from the press about any of it. They’ll never get my vote again. Absolute worst people in the country. I’m so grateful that I have an art practice where I can put this anger or else I’d be getting arrested right now. Fuck Starmer. I will see him in Hell.

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MANAGED DEMOCRACY

Managed democracy, brought to you by neoliberalism. One of the primary functions of neoliberalism is to remove economic policy from the democratic sphere, so it’s no longer possible to vote for anything except neoliberal economic policy. This, now we are faced with a choice between Starmer & Sunak, is “the triumph of centrism” according to George Osborne. A triumph because all other options are defeated and removed from voter reach. Both major parties in the UK agree on the fundamentals of how to run the economy, (privatisation & outsourcing, austerity, marketisation, anti-union legislation etc.), they just disagree on some smaller points of detail such as which party’s donors should get the lucrative NHS contracts.

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BMW / TOYOTA BRANDALISM CAMPAIGN

I designed this poster for a new Brandalism, Subvertisers International and XR Belgium takeover of 400 ad spaces in towns and cities across Europe targeting car advertising, polluting SUVs, and in particular Toyota and BMW.⁠ BMW and Toyota push their ‘green’ credentials in their advertising while simultaneously lobbying governments to delay and limit policies to end the sale of new fossil fuel cars.⁠ There were 11 other artists involved in the campaign including some good friends Michelle Tylicki, Hogre, Matt Bonner, and Merny. My poster was inspired by the fact that BMW was one of the car manufacturers who installed emissions test cheating devices in thousands of their vehicles, which meant they released far more toxic fumes than regulators and consumers believed. They also colluded with VW and Daimler in an “emissions cartel” to curb the use of emissions cleaning technology.⁠ More of my previous subvertising work here:⁠ www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/subvertising⁠ More images and details of the other artists works in this campaign can be found on the Brandalism website.

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A POSTCARD FROM HELL

I made this matte painting forced perspective photo opportunity in Los Llanos De Aridane in La Palma, Canary Islands so tourists could take a postcard photo of what the city could look like after a fossil fuel powered flood. I was invited as part of Trashplant Festival alongside some incredible street artists, including my old friend Isaac Cordal.

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SUPPORT THE STRIKES

Just finished this poster in support of all striking workers. You can download a free printable file of it here, please feel free to share (Non-commercial purposes only) A3 size (29.7cm x 42cm) Fair Pay – Support the Strikes – Darren Cullen A3.pdf Download PDF • 23.67MB A1 size (59.4cm x 84.1cm) Fair Pay – Support the Strikes – Darren Cullen A1.pdf Download PDF • 75.30MB

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QATAR PANINI DEAD WORKER STICKER ALBUM

Video about my Qatar World Cup sticker project I’ve been working on for the last few months. I printed 6500 stickers and distributed many of them resealed in sticker packs and returned to shops, dropped into sticker albums on shop shelves and generally left around the place. I’ve made the stickers available to buy from my website to avoid anyone going and giving Panini any more money in an attempt to find these stickers. I’ll be donating any profits to a suitable charity, which I’ve yet to find (any suggestions for one that supports migrant worker families would be appreciated)

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OVERTAKEN BY REALITY: SATIRE INSIDE A DYSTOPIA

Between the Pope auctioning off his autographed Lamborghini for charity, Lockheed Martin bidding to run NHS GP surgeries, and the FBI’s social media tributes to Martin Luther King Jr, it’s easy to come to the conclusion that satire is dead. And maybe it is. As an artist who uses satire in my work I’ve been overtaken by reality more than once, and sometimes wondered if maybe I’m not making jokes, but accidentally producing comically malevolent ideas that could actually be used by the bastards who run the place.

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HELL BUS @ LIVERPOOL

I recently returned from Liverpool where the Hell Bus was featured at The World Transformed for 4 days in the centre of town. The reaction to the bus was fantastic and I was delighted to be able to show Jeremy Corbyn around too. We had a chat about nuclear weapons, the daily mail and solar powered tanks. He really liked my Don’t Believe Everything Billionaires Tell You image which I made during the 2019 election so I gave him a sticker of it and a Mini Daily Mail lol. Massive thanks to Beth and Chris (Silent-K) for putting me up while I was in town!

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CARBON CAPTURE AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM – BROUGHT TO YOU BY SHELL

Some impromptu new exhibits appeared today as part of the Shell-sponsored carbon capture exhibition at the Science Museum, London. ⁠ I thought it was weird that an exhibition about carbon capture, paid for by an oil company, didn’t once mention that 81% of all the carbon *ever* captured by this technology has been used by oil companies and pumped back into oil wells to help extract more oil. Seems like a significant omission (ok yes we can call it a ‘carbon omission’) Also thought it was weird that the exhibition didn’t mention that oil corporations are some of the biggest investors in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. No doubt because of how useful it is to them in getting more oil out of the ground, while being able to pass it off as a ‘green technology’ for tax breaks and marketing purposes. But now at least, for a time, the Science Museum exhibition does mention those things, as well featuring a great new idea about a super useful product to turn all that captured carbon into.

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