Art is Your Human Right
The artistic campaigns of Bob and Roberta Smith
EXHIBITION
Friday 16 October 2015 - Sunday 31 January 2016
Bob and Roberta Smith is the pseudonym of Patrick Brill, leading British contemporary artist and founder of the Leytonstone Centre for Contemporary Art
Enraged by the Government’s downgrading of art in schools, the artist decided to fight back. In this exhibition we follow his campaigns, from his furious painting, Letter to Michael Gove, to the launch of the Art Party and his attempt to be elected to parliament in 2015.
Combining film, placards, sculpture, banners and even his slogan-covered campaigning van, this exhibition makes the case for creativity. All schools should be art schools. Music makes children powerful.
The show includes a new film Art is Your Human Right: why can’t politics be more fun? and presents the artist’s hopes and fears for the future.