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More from Magda Archer

MAGDA ARCHER, Don’t Ask (2023)

Who wouldn’t welcome a brace of Magda Archer posters bringing this year to a close? Critical, mischievous, wit tinged with a world-weary despair. And if Archer’s cast of winsome creatures are world-weary, what hope the rest of us? Her ‘Don’t Ask’ (2023) features a couple of cute critters scampering past blue, wonky features of a city skyline, “How Bad Does It Get?” one asks. Hmmm.

Considering the state this country is in – NHS ‘death by a thousand cuts’; the cost-of-living rip-off; dire housing need; shilly-shally Tory eco policies and their ‘blame the stranger’ stance on immigration; the care system; scant mental health support… The list is daunting. Add to these domestic woes so many other tragic events, the utter abominations it seems humans persist in visiting on one another around the world, and you’d be forgiven for wanting to go full-on ostrich.

Archer’s images help us to peek between our fingers at the rottenness, while delivering stinging memos as to social injustice, personal foibles, systemic failure, etc., she also deploys pointed absurdity and singing colours and pithy language to make work that helps lighten the load of modern life.

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MAGDA ARCHER, Otherwise (2023)

PLUS, we’re very pleased to announce flyingleaps has teamed up with UNCLE, the international paste-up crew, to super boost the street display of Archer’s second poster. ‘Otherwise’ (2023) doesn’t mince its message, a sweet Jack Russell Terrier sits with the CND logo – symbol of peace and dissent – in their mouth while the wraparound text reads, ‘WORLD PEACE IS COMING (otherwise we’re screwed).

Oppression and conflict stalk the face of the earth, born of religion, race, ethnicity, governance, ideology, politics, greed… All bitter antagonisms that have one thing in common, a mindset that perpetuates, creates, a bleak and binary cast of otherness. And with it a sense that those ‘others’ don’t need to be treated as fellow humans.

We all know a picture of an adorable pup with a symbolic doggie chew won’t save the world. The poster simply points out what’s blindingly obvious. There are already enough planet shattering problems that can, will only ever be solved via international cooperation.

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The CND logo was created in 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a conscientious objector during WWII who explained it’s a design born of deep despair, “I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad.”

 

Humankind is facing a firing squad of its own making. And on so many fronts. The point of Archer’s ‘Otherwise’ poster? It’s about time we learnt to unknot grudges, to right the suffering and disadvantages stemming from present and historical wrongs, to work to appreciate alterity as opposed to using our differences as a pretext for hate. Otherwise, we really are screwed.

Head over to the features section of the MANFROMUNCLE website to read an interview with Magda Archer. Signed artists’ posters are available from www.flyingleaps.co.uk. And if you’re after a last minute festive gift check out Noni Stacey’s book LEAVE TO REMAIN, it’s a riveting collage of analysis and numerous works of art arising from the 2016 Brexit vote.


Anthony Burrill & Dr.D

You & Me & Us & We (2023)

ANTHONY BURHILL, You & Me & Us & We (2023)

A fresh rendition of Burrill’s ‘You & Me & Us & We’ (2023) artwork is a clarion call for more inclusive, community spirited social relations. As a street poster the work affords both consolation and inspiration. Whichever way passers-by cast their eyes across Burrill’s assemblage of bold pronouns and ampersands, the effect is a refreshing break from being cynically, garishly ‘implored’ or ‘shouted at’ by commercial adverts. In the face of personal and societal, local and worldly pressures, we all have moments when we say, ‘What is it I do? Is it worthwhile?’ Burrill’s answer, “I think you’ve just got to be brave and put work out there that you believe in. […] We’re all a work in progress, get conversations going, talk to as many people as possible, build relationships, bring people along with you.”
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State (2023) poster

Dr.D, State (2023)

Dr.D has produced a typically adroit if harrowing new poster version of ‘State’ (2023). It points to the absurd, scandalous lack of affordable housing in this country. It’s a conviction he expressed earlier this year with a brilliant installation at Glastonbury but bears endless repetition. An ONS survey suggests that since records began the cost of private renting has seen the largest hike ever in the 12 months leading up to June 2023. It is predicted to rise even further in the near term. Social housing isn’t fairing much better with the main housing associations across the UK increasing rents by the maximum amounts allowed. And service charges aren’t covered by the same suggested 7% limit. It’s not too much of an exaggeration to say housing policy in the UK is one big catastrophic, arguably criminal, fail.

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ALL CORONATION POSTERS AVAILABLE IN THE SHOP

Pray Tell Sire, Magda Archer
Pray Tell Sire, Magda Archer

Magda Archer

A powerhouse of wit, invention and perceptive psycho-social observations, all proffered in such a way that at first sight the viewer might not realise they’ve been fed an unsavoury or unpalatable truth that, more often than not, gets swept under the carpet.

God Save the Nepo Baby, Tim Fishlock
God Save the Nepo Baby, Tim Fishlock

Tim Fishlock

His metier is the magical, mutable, world of words. Often enigmatic, striking and saturated in colour the artist’s text-based works sow intrigue, absurdity and playfulness. For this flyingleaps outing, message and mode of address is simples: ‘check your privilege!’

New Coronation Robes, Martin Rowson
New Coronation Robes, Martin Rowson

Martin Rowson

Visual journalist extraordinaire, known for stingingly sharp satirical imagery that speaks truth to mealy mouthed power, calling out political cant and egregious social fails. His work can strip an issue to its drollest, barest expression. Literally sometimes.

God Save the Queen, Sarah Maple
God Save the Queen, Sarah Maple

Sarah Maple

Bold, brave, mischief making, an artist who works across many media – guerrilla intervention, paint, print, collage, performance, even TV – often with a tongue in cheek humour but always a critical social conscience examining social and personal mores.

Make Monarchy History, Dr.D
Make Monarchy History, Dr.D

Dr.D

Well over two decades of doctoring billboards and otherwise imaginatively intervening on the streets to call out media bias, social iniquity, political doublespeak, worker exploitation but as well as being achingly on point there’s a deal of fun too.

It's Always Nice, Simon Roberts
It’s Always Nice, Simon Roberts

Simon Roberts

A human geographer before focussing on photography, Roberts both chronicles and affords an extensive, acutely detailed portrayal of our stratified society in terms of wealth, class, politics, pastimes and the display and perpetuation of entitlement.

DONT FRET
DONT FRET Hiding
DONT FRET - Fly
DONT FRET – Fly
DONT FRET - The Answers
DONT FRET – The Answers
DONT FRET - SMILEY
DONT FRET – SMILEY

All posters are 30×20 inches.

All posters printed since 2021 are limited editions of 100 – prior to that they are editions of 300. All are 30×20 inch.

(apart from More That Unites Us (2017) and Agitate In Memoriam (2018) which were limited to a run of 100)

Dr.D aka Subvertiser

While the debate goes on as to whether flyposted and other oppositional art or visual activism has any direct effect in bringing about sociopolitical change, what it can do at its best is feed into the publics’ disposition.

Through strong imagery, cogent or quizzical text, humour, relatively speedy production and distribution, via its capacity to occupy anomalous spaces in the urban environment and through an imaginative, enacted engagement with matters of concern it can generate social media interest and help inform, even propel, opinion.

Dr. D’s targets include surveillance culture; the social effects of neoliberalism; commodification; mealy-mouthed and uncaring politicians;  abuses of power in the media… Much more than bald sloganeering Dr. D’s imagery and text pieces often emerge, on reflection, as enigmatic meditations on twenty-first century existential angst.

Transgressing boundaries can reveal hidden rules. One could cite the precedents of the carnivalesque ‘telling truth to power’, vaudevillian comedy, Dada gestures in art but all of these, in a – it’s only a bunch of pucks/entertainers/artists – sense, operated in ‘sanctioned’ arenas. Dr. D’s contributions to the urban environment are rarely sanctioned and it’s this that contributes significantly to their traction and incisiveness.

The urban spectacle would have us believe that its over-riding character is, yes aspirational, but emphatically neutral and apolitical: that generally we’re going to be just fine if we carry on pretty much as we are. Dr. D’s pithy interventions, highlighting so many germane issues and employing such a variety of modes of address, repeatedly suggest otherwise.

Curfew, Dr D, in Oslo
I Remember the Future in Oslo