kennardphillipps - artists peter kennard and cat phillips

DEMOTALK at Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival 2014, 1st August – 26th September

Within an environment of burnt walls with images connecting big finance with war the artists kennardphillipps construct images in a performance that uses the sounds of war, big industry; explosions of open caste mining, rapid fire artillery, and the sounds of resistance in everyday street life. They make an intervention in their own artists’ talk cutting from a formal talk about their work in response to the invasion of Iraq and British anti-war protest into a demonstration of action.

 

“ We tear at the serried ranks of share price listings in newspapers to reveal the victims of traded profit. We tear up the pages of our mediated experience and reveal the struggle going on underneath.  This is a work of disrespect to the way things are.”

Photo Op in use in various magazines and newspapers

Evening Standard using No Third Runway

The Guardian Saturday April 29 2006

Op Art – The Guardian

war on war paintings 2005

These paintings were a first attempt to push the subject of the attack on the people of Iraq beyond the sanitised surface of print media by using canvas and raw materials on top of pigment ink and oil paint and scraping the canvas’ down over the brick walls in the street outside the studio. SEE MORE >

Peace On Earth Banned by Orange reported by the Guardian

2 Photomontages used as illustration in the Guardian

Award at Henry Peacock reviewed