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GENERATION ACTION

​Protests, at home and across the world, have seen large numbers voicing their demands for a better present or a safer future.

Young people have started to take a lead, where they see others falling short. Few will have been untouched by Greta Thunberg’s oratory, mobilising millions and calling world leaders to account.

On a smaller scale, seven Greenpeace protestors, dressed in red, lined up to stop Boris Johnson’s new Prime Ministerial car. In an inspirational gesture, they faced up to the values – the arrogance and duplicitous self-interest - that he represents.

In these seven drawings, more red clad figures - ordinary people - stand proud to call for change. They call out just a few of today's injustices and attitudes that need to be challenged.

Peaceful protesters - and artists - can tell awkward truths. We can nod in agreement, then do something to make a difference. Or not.

The drawings were made on an iPad with the very simple Adobe Fresco app, completed in March 2020 and inkjet printed for display at 50x50cm.
The series was ready for exhibition in April 2020.  Lockdown scuppered that.  

By the end of the year, the drawings felt a long time ago; before things changed.  They were before social bubbles and contact tracing, before Zoom meetings and Barnard Castle; they were Before Covid.
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I made one more drawing.
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