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Though locked down in London, this exhibition of letterpress protest posters has plenty of messages for the world
If the past few years have felt like one long trail of division, doom and injustice, followed by the deadly silence and devastating death toll of the pandemic, then ‘Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters’ is the exhibition for you,
writes John L. Walters.
The 204 protest posters on display form a protracted howl of rage and anguish about nearly everything you can think of, from Trump to fracking, from inequality to global warming. There are 188 artworks from 105 printers in sixteen countries, plus 26 collaborations between New North Press (NNP), the initiators of the exhibition, and a variety of people who do not usually make letterpress work, including Peter Kennard (see ....

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Reverting to Type exhibition features protest posters by 100 letterpress artists


Reverting to Type exhibition features protest posters by 100 letterpress artists
The online exhibition features a mix of famous names and less-heard voices, who all use letterpress techniques to express their feelings on a range of contemporary issues
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Organised by letterpress studio New North Press, the exhibition was originally held at the Standpoint Gallery in London, where it opened in December but then had to close due to the latest UK Covid-19 lockdown. It has since reached people online and via a catalogue of the works featured.
While the events of last year make an exhibition about protest very timely, planning for it actually began in December 2019. “That’s when we chose the subject of protest,” says Richard Ardagh, who curated the show alongside Graham Bignell. “We had no idea at the time the significance this would take and the world-changing events round the corner with Covid-19, the murder of George Floyd, Black Lives Ma ....

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