Art protest Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/art-protest/ Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:47:57 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://i0.wp.com/writersrebel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/index-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Art protest Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/art-protest/ 32 32 184391167 Art and ActivismTom Hardy https://writersrebel.com/art-and-activism/ Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:43:41 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5320   Picture this… a man walks into a gallery and throws black ink over a renowned artwork. Not, as you would be forgiven thinking, a Just Stop Oil intervention but a 1994 reaction by artist Mark Bridger to Damien Hirst’s pickled sheep creating a new work he called “Black Sheep” which was in turn absorbed [...]

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Can’t you hear the future weeping? #PaintTheLand PerformanceDamon Albarn and Mirabella Okri https://writersrebel.com/cant-you-hear-the-future-weeping-our-love-must-save-the-world-performance/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:49:31 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=3132 Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz joined Mirabella Okri and the Capital Children’s Choir to delivered a reflective performance at Writers Rebel’s Paint the Land launch 25.06.21. Watch it here. #PaintTheLand was launched with the help of Booker prize-winning writer Ben Okri and artist-activists Ackroyd & Harvey. Okri’s message to world governments, “Can’t you hear [...]

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Simon Bramwell’s #PaintTheLand launch speechSimon Bramwell https://writersrebel.com/simon-bramwells-painttheland-launch-speech/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:43:49 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=3129 XR Co-founder, Simon Bramwell, delivered an urgent and powerful speech at Writers Rebel’s Paint the Land launch on 25.06.21. Within his speech, Bramwell reminds us why action is necessary and how art can be a powerful agent in this change. #PaintTheLand was launched with the help of Booker prize-winning writer Ben Okri and artist-activists Ackroyd [...]

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Ackroyd & Harvey’s #PaintTheLand launch speechHeather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey https://writersrebel.com/ackroyd-harveys-painttheland-launch-speech/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:31:11 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=3124 Co-founders of Culture Declares and renowned artist-activists, Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey spoke at Writers Rebel’s Paint the Land launch 25.06.21. Within their speech, Ackroyd & Harvey describe the quiet miracle of grass.  Ackroyd & Harvey created a 16x4m living grass banner that was floated on the Thames at Bankside Beach on Friday 25th June [...]

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Kelly Hill’s #PaintTheLand launch speechKelly Hill https://writersrebel.com/kelly-hills-painttheland-launch-speech/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:46:18 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=3116 On Friday 25th June, dedicated activist and organiser, Kelly Hill introduced the crowd to Writers Rebel’s latest project, Paint the Land. #PaintTheLand was launched with the help of Booker prize-winning writer Ben Okri and artist-activists Ackroyd & Harvey. Okri’s message to world governments, “Can’t you hear the future weeping? Our love must save the world” [...]

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Ben Okri’s #PaintTheLand launch speechBen Okri https://writersrebel.com/ben-okris-painttheland-launch-speech/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:30:14 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=3107 Booker prize-winning novelist, poet and activist Ben Okri made a moving speech at Writers Rebel’s Paint the Land launch 25.06.21. Within his speech, Okri reminds us that love is the only thing that stands between us and extinction.  Okri’s message “Can’t you hear the future weeping? Our love must save the world” was displayed on [...]

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