A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution William Morris Gallery, London.

Our World Is Not For Sale Poster and Memes collected by the author displayed as part of A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution William Morris Gallery, London. A century of posters agitating for political change, from the Suffragette campaigns of the early twentieth century, to the Arab Spring, political activists around the world have used posters to mobilise, educate and organise A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution shows a spotlight on how political activists around the world have used posters to mobilise, educate and organise. The exhibition will present around 70 posters drawn from the national poster collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Showcasing the work of diverse artists, graphic designers and print collectives it will include new acquisitions gathered from recent outbursts of protest in the UK, Russia and the Middle East. Making or displaying a poster is in itself a means of taking political action, while for many social and political movements, posters have represented an important form of cultural output. The show will feature posters made by the Atelier Populaire during the student protests in Paris in 1968, as well as examples from the Russian, Chinese and Cuban Revolutions. The exhibition will also host artist Ruth Ewan’s A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World, an ongoing collection of over 2000 idealistic or political songs collated by Ewan and disseminated via a CD jukebox. Exhibition organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London