About
kennardphillipps is a collaboration between Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps working since 2002 to produce art in response to the invasion of Iraq. It has evolved to confront power and war across the globe. The work is made for the street, the gallery, the web, newspapers & magazines, and to lead workshops that develop peoples’ skills and help them express their thoughts on what’s happening in the world through visual means. The work is made as a critical tool that connects to international movements for social and political change. We don’t see the work as separate to social and political movements that are confronting established political and economic systems. We see it as part of those movements, the visual arm of protest. We want it to be used by people as a part of their own activism, not just as pictures on the wall to contemplate. To facilitate this, as well as selling our limited edition prints on the site enabling us to fund the making of the work, there is a free download page of images with a voluntary contribution to the International Solidarity Movement.
Exhibitions
2023
Politics In Art MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Poland
2022
Defaced:Money,Conflict,Protest Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Politics In Art MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Poland
Documents From The Edges Of Conflict James Hockey Gallery, UCA, Farnham
Continuum Cello Factory, London
2021
Documents From The Edges Of Conflict James Hockey Gallery, UCA, Farnham
2020
Art Strikes Back Jorn Museum, Silkeborg, Denmark
2019
New Acquisitions National Portrait Gallery, London
Art Strikes Back Jorn Museum, Silkeborg, Denmark
Finnegans Woke RUA RED, Dublin, Ireland
Storyboards for a Sicknote Danielle Arnaud, London, UK
The World Exists to be put on a Postcard British Museum, London, UK
2018
Americas Greatest Hits EXILE Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Flying Leaps First Site Gallery, Colchester, UK
Beyond The Barricades Studio3 Gallery, University of Kent, UK
Travelling Gallery At 40 City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
Capital City London College of Communication, UK
Another Spring Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, UK
Decked Out Nuart Gallery, Stavanger, Norway
Hang Ten HangUp Gallery, London, UK
Age of Terror : Art since 9/11 Imperial War Museum, London, UK
2017
Age of Terror : Art since 9/11 Imperial War Museum, London, UK
MAY NOT Dadiani Fine Art, London, UK
Polygraphs Gallery 4, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
State Of The Nations Diffusion International Festival of Photography, Cardiff, Wales
People Power: Fighting for Peace Imperial War Museum, London, UK
Profit Flying Leaps, street flypost throughout UK
Shangri La Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Art, Pilton Farm, UK
Gestures of Resistance Romantso, Athens, Greece
Thread of Light P21 Gallery, London, UK
It’s Gonna Be Great Copeland Gallery, London UK
Nuart Festival, Stavanger, Norway
War On War Room, Landskrona Photo Festival, Sweden
Very Now/Art and Journalism, London College of Communication, England
Shangri La, Glastonbury Festival, Pilton Farm, England
Here Comes Everybody, Travelling Gallery, on tour, Scotland
2015
Dismaland, Weston-Super-Mare, England
Here Comes Everybody Stills Gallery, Edinburgh Festival 2015, Scotland
Heaven and Hell Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Boom, Bubble & Blast Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
Caught in the Crossfire Guilford House Gallery, Guilford
After Image Galeria Civica, Trento, Italy
2014
A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution Victoria & Albert Museum, London and The McManus, Dundee, Scotland
After Image Galeria Civica, Trento, Italy
Caught in the Crossfire Museen Der Stadt Dresden, Germany
Demotalk Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival 2014, Scotland
Catalyst Contemporary Art and War Imperial War Museum, Manchester, UK
Living with the War: artists on war and conflict Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2013
Catalyst Contemporary Art and War Imperial War Museum, Manchester, UK
Living with the War: artists on war and conflict Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
The Hecklers The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
Loose Change – Crisis Cabaret, Cabaret Duchamp Barbican Centre, London, UK
Ten Years After: Reflections on the Invasion of Iraq Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
Caught in the Crossfire Herbert Art Gallery and Museum , Coventry, UK
Geographies of War | Iraq Revisited University College London, UK
TEN Royal Court Theatre, London, UK
Blue Murder Hang Up Gallery, London, UK
Studies for a Head Super Normal Festival, England
2012
ARTWALL Prague, Czech Republic
The Wall Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
Occupy Everything Hales Gallery, London, UK
Iraq – How, Where, For Whom? Mosaic Rooms, London, UK
Our Demonstration Guardian Newsroom Gallery, London, UK
Beyond The Frame Gallery 27, London, UK
Exotica Tallin Art Hall, Estonia
Les Fleurs du mal Museum of Contemporary Art, Wroclaw, Poland
2011
The Big Society, Galerie Vallois, Paris, France
Mutate Britain, The Robin Hood Tax Campaign, London, UK
2010
“We hope to be finished by lunchtime…..” Fragments from A Broken World, PhotoIreland, National Photographic Archive, Dublin, Ireland
Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance In Palestine, Amnesty International, London, UK
Rude Brittania: British Comic Art, Tate Britain, London, UK
Transformed: Artists’ Books and Bookworks, Imperial War Museum, London, UK
Brit Insurance Design Awards, Design Museum, London, UK
2009
Signs of Revolt: Creative Resistance & Social Movements since Seattle, Truman Brewery, London
G20 the new number of the beast Carnaby St, London, UK
Embedded Art Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
2008
Art Media & Contested Space the public art project by Interface, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Alchemy Carnaby St, London, UK
Iraq: A Process of Resistance Ink-D, Brighton, UK
Uncertified Documents Pumphouse Gallery, London, UK
2007
Antennae Houston Centre of Photography, Houston, Texas, USA
Blairaq Leonard Street Gallery, London, UK
Ammunition St. Margaret’s Church Art Gallery, Norwich, UK
Forms of Resistance : Artists & the desire for social change from 1871 to the present Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Green Zone / Red Zone Gemak, the Free Academy, Den Hague, Netherlands
Santa’s Ghetto Manger Square, Bethlehem, Palestine
2006
Untitled (Iraq) Photofusion, London, UK
Picture This Warchild exhibition, Bargehouse, London, UK
War on War Poorvoon Kirjasto, Poorvoo, Finland
Prints Now Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Plug County Hall, London, UK
Santa’s Ghetto Oxford Street, London, UK
Obscenity V22 AshwinStreet, London, UK
2005
Demo Nørrebro Bibliotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
Street Art Akciok Millenarison Park, Budapest, Hungary
War on War Room, eastInternational05’ , Norwich Gallery, UK
Sunek / Thrust 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts, MGLC & Tobacna, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Artfutures , Bloomberg gallery , London, UK
2004
Award Henry Peacock Gallery, London, UK
Award Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Pax Britannica The Aquarium, London, UK
Demo City Hall, London, UK
Collections
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, UK
Design Museum, London, UK
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Imperial War Museum, London, UK
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
a/political, private collection
private collections
Workshops – Lectures – Conferences
2020
Artist’s feedback (Zoom) Articulatehub for their Artivism project
Artists’ Talk (podcast) Stills gallery
Artists’ Talk (Zoom) Bolton School of Art, Bolton, UK
2019
Public Workshop National Portrait Gallery, London
Artists’ talk First Site Gallery, Colchester, UK
2018
Artists’ talk Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, UK
Capital City Workshop/Tutor group collaboration MAPhotography, London College of Communication,UK
2017
Artists’ talk/symposium, Diffusion International Festival of Photography, Cardiff
2016
Artists’ talk Landskrona Foto Festival
Artists’ talk Nuart street art festival, Stavanger, Norway
Very Now Festival of Journalism and Art, London College of Communication
2015
London College of Communication, MA Photojournalism workshop
2014
Art and Conflict Conference, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Artists’ talk/performance DEMOTALK Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Artists’ talk/performance DEMOTALK Facing Extinction Conference, UCA Farnham, UK
Artists’ talk Museen der Stadt, Dresden, Germany
Posters, Politics, Protest-British Political Posters V&A conference, Peoples’ History Museum, Manchester, UK
2013
Anti-War Society University College London, UK
no.w.here Summer School no.w.here, London, UK
ARC Symposium – Artspace/Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, UK
Keynote Debate – Camberwell Art College, London University of the Arts, Uk
War on War Room residency and public workshop – Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK
2012
Festival of Dangerous Ideas Counterfire, ISG, and Verso Books, Rich Mix, London
Political Issue in Art: TrAIN Open Lecture Chelsea College of Art, London
PICS Festival Symposium London
Stop The War St James’s Picadilly, London
2011
Re Thinking Soup Artists’ talk, Royal College of Art, London
Tripwire Group workshop Index on Censorship, London
Panel discussion, Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference – Royal Geographical Society, London
Art and Activism, artists talk – It’s Your Write! – V&A Museum of Childhood
2010
Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2010 – ‘Art and Politics’ panel, Edinburgh
Brief + Tutors Lecture – Student Design Awards, Design Museum , London
Lecture – BA/MA Lecture programme Norwich University College of the Arts
Artists talk and workshop – Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Lecture – Faculty of Media, Arts and Society, Southampton Solent University
Experimental Geographies, panel discussion with Retort – Whitechapel Art Gallery London
Art and Resistance Ways to Make trouble, artists talk – Houseman’s event, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Collaborating Dissent, artists talk – Lunchtime Lecture, Troika Editions gallery, London
2008
Art Media & Contested Space panel discussion & artists’ talk, Interface, School of art and design, University of Ulster, Belfast
In conversation with Gordon , Brighton Photo Biennial
Uncertified Documents artists’ talk, Pumphouse Gallery, London
2007
Lecture, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich
Materiality to Hyperreality: Appropriated Media in Contemporary Art University of Houston, Texas, USA
The Personalised Surface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking Symposium, Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London
Arts and Law Seminar Kings College Research Centre, Cambridge
Capturing the Movement Institute of Education, London
Lecture, Leonard Street Gallery, London
Workshop Green Zone / Red Zone, Gemak, the Free Academy, Den Hague
Interface Research Seminar Interface: Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design, School of Art and Design, University of Ulster, Belfast
2006
Seminar on War on War School of Graphic Design, Porvoo, Finland
Lecture, Poorvoon Kirjasto, Finland
Lecture, Photofusion, London
The Art of Political Protest , Marxism Conference, London
2005
Ethics into Aesthetics Conference, Norwich School of Art
Graphic Agitation Conference, Marxism , London
2004
Workshop on digitalmontage , Street Level Gallery, Glasgow
Residencies
2019
Finnegans Woke with War On War Room public workshop RUA RED, Dublin, Ireland
2016
War On War Room exhibition with public workshop Landskrona Foto Festival, Sweden
Here Comes Everybody exhibition with War On War Room public workshop Travelling Gallery, Scotland (tour)
Shangri La, Glastonbury Festival England
Nuart Street art festival, Stavanger, Norway
2015
Here Comes Everybody with War On War Room public workshop Stills Gallery, Edinburgh Festival, Scotland
Dismaland Weston-Super-Mare, England
2014
Demotalk Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival 2014, Scotland
2013
War on War Room residency and public workshop – Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
2009
Embedded Art Akademie Der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
2008
Interface: Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design, School of Art and Design, University of Ulster, Belfast
2005
Artist in Residence at eastInternational’05, Norwich
Commissions
2021
Lowkey Jazz Café – set/poster/t-shirt design
Everything Must Go billboard installation, Vanguard Street Art Festival, Bristol
2019
Finnegans Woke exhibition RUA RED, Dublin, Ireland
2017
State of the Nations exhibition, Diffusion International Photography Festival
2016
Village Voice NY, US artwork
Foreign Policy magazine, US, visual statement
Here Comes Everybody exhibition adaptation for Travelling Gallery,on tour, Scotland
Shangri La, Glastonbury Festival site specific works
Education Is Not A Crime campaign, artwork
2015
Here Comes Everybody exhibition, Stills, Edinburgh, Scotland
Dismaland site specific artwork
Greenpeace photomonyage artworks for campaign A Song Of Oil, Ice and Fire
2013
Demotalk Super Normal Festival, England lecture demonstration
2012
The Year of Dreaming Dangerously – Slavoj Zizek artwork book cover Verso
It’s the Political Economy, Stupid | The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory, Edited by Gregory Sholette and Oliver Ressler book and catalogue cover Pluto Press
2011
Barbaric Sport | A Global Plague – Marc Perelman Book cover and catalogue cover Verso
2010
“We hope to be finished by lunchtime….” exhibition commissioned by Anthony Haughey for Fragments from A Broken World exhibition in the National Photographic Archive, Dublin, part of PhotoIreland Festival
2009
Cafe of Equivalent$ commissioned by Laboratory of Insurrectory Imagination for C.R.A.S.H. , part of 2degrees festival, London
Control Room #2 commissioned by Akademie der Kunste, Berlin for Embedded Art exhibition
2008
No Third Runway photomontage commissioned by Greenpeace for newspaper advert
48-sheet billboard commissioned by Art Media & Contested Space at Interface, Belfast
billboard commissioned by Nakba60, London
From Canaan to Palestine (working title) commissioned by the Palestinian Cultural Centre for permanent display
Palestinian Gallery, London
2007
George Bush Portrait Houston Centre of Photography, Houston, USA
18.03.03 commissioned by Van Abbemuseum for Forms of Resistance exhibition, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Darth Vader mask intervention commissioned by Lucas films, London
2004
DEMO commissioned by Greater London Authority for City Hall, London
2003
Peace on Earth (banned by Orange) commissioned for Brighten Up London by Damon Albarn, sponsored by Orange
Reviews, Interviews,
Images published (magazines, newspapers, books)
the Guardian 13.10.04
Dazed and Confused 11.04
Revolve 12.04
The Times July 21st 2004 p21-22 T2, ‘The radical power of paint’, interview with John Russell Taylor
The Independent guide 7th August 2004, ‘The five best shows in London’
Red Pepper June 2004, p38-39.
The Independent 10th August 2004 p13, ‘Award’ by Sue Hubbard
The Scotsman’ 23rd November 2004 p32-33, ‘Medium first, then meaning’ by Susan Mansfield.
Morning Star 5th October 2004 p6, ‘Mayor unveils anti-war art exhibition’.
Metro 6th October 2004 p32, ‘Anti-war Demo at City Hall’.
Morning Star 8th October 2004 ‘City Hall hosts its own Demo’, Ken Livingstone.
Artdaily.com 3rd November 2004, ‘Peter Kennard at City Hall’.
The Guardian 13th October 2004 p9, ‘Delegates gather to put world to rights’ by Tanya Branigan.
Dazed and Confused September 2004 p159.
Arbrjderen 8th December 2004 p17.
200 Pajuden December 2004 p12.
Interview on Radio London 4th October 2004
Stop the War ISBN1 905192 00 2 Bookmarks Publications, 2005, p120, 121
Inside covers front and back
Free Association issue 1, 2006, p54, 57
malababa ISBN D.L. B-32906-2006, 2006, p3, 20
Socialist Review February 2006, inside front cover
Uusimaa interview 1st March 2006, p3 p12
Printmaking Today Interview April 2006
Prints Now : Directions and Definitions by Gill Saunders and Rosie Miles
ISBN 1 85177 480 7 V&A Publications, 2006 p13, 22, 22, 23
The Guardian 29th April 2006 p35, ‘Op Art’
Red Pepper issue141 may 2006, rear view p39
bulb’ issue10 June 2006 p43
Telegraph Magazine 29th July 2006, p30, 31, 33
the Guardian 1st Dec 2006 p5
the Independent on Sunday’ 3rd December 2006 , p42
Telegraph Magazine 30th Dec 2006 Cover
Interview the Independent 2nd Jan 2007, p10, 11
The Daily Telegraph 6th Jan 2007, Cover Review section
Sky News 20th March 2007, Inside Iraq
Radio interview , Aktuellt17, Radio Vega YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company) 19th April 2007
Houston Press 3rd May 2007, Night&Day cover
campaign 4th May 2007, p28
New Statesman 7th May 2007, p49
Avantgarde magazine 50 British Contemporary Artists 11th May 2007, p25
British Medical Journal 19th May 2007 vol334, p1030-1031
Portfolio No.45, May 2007p66, 67
spot magazine Houston Centre of Photography vol.XXIV No.2 summer 2007, p4
Student British Medical Journal July 2007, p288
the Guardian 30th Nov 2007 greenpeace ad p.12
New Statesman 17th Dec2007-3rd Jan2008 p.33
New Statesman 21st Jan 2008 article ‘ART is the new activism’ p.38-40
The Independent 18th Feb 2008 Extra review p.12-13
Morning Star 4th March 2008 review p.9
Saturday Telegraph Magazine 12th April 2008 illustration p.26-27
VROOM issue07 2008 illustrated interview p.44-50
FLUX issue64 2008 text and images p.114 inside fold-out back cover
Photoworks 10 May-October 2008 back cover
grafik 176 August 2009 illustrated profile p.38-46
Basics Illustration : Global Contexts by Mark Wigan AVA Publishing 2009 ISBN 978-2-940373-94-9 p.46-47,48-49,50-51
Portfolio No.50 Anniversary Edition, May 2009 p.
Beyond The Street: The Hundred Leading Figures in Urban Art by Patrick Nguyen and Stuart Mackenzie, Gestalten, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-89955-290-4 p.244-247
Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective by Paul Coldwell, Black Dog Publishing 2009
Spaces of Security and Insecurity – Geographies of the War on Terror, by Alan Ingram and Klaus Dodds, Ashgate 2009, cover + pgs. 272-275, plate273, 276-7
Borders: Contemporary Middle Eastern Art and Discourse by Robert Kluijver, Gemeentemuseum Den Hague, 2010, cover and p.36-40
The Culture Show, BBC 2, BBC Scotland, Rude Brittania, Thursday 3rd June 2010
the Guardian Saturday 5th June 2010 Review Section p.17
Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance In Palestine by Bill Parry, Pluto Press 2010
Legion Magazine, ‘Art of War’ article, autumn issue
Interview BBC World Service, Newshour broadcast 1pm 8th September 2010
Interview Daybreak, ITV1 broadcast 8th September 2010
IdN Magazine 100th issue, aug 2010, Hong Kong
L’insense Magazine, Paris, 2010-2011
The War You Don’t See, a film by John Pilger, National release, ITV broadcast 13th December 2010
Contemporary British Art by Grant Pooke, Routledge 2012, ISBNs 1135654832, 9781135654832 , pgs 92, 168, 219, 220, 229, 240, plate20
Art & Agenda – Political Art and Activism by R. Klanten, M. Hübner, A. Bieber, P. Alonzo, G. Jansen, Gestalten 2011, ISBN:978-3-89955-342-0, cover + pgs.
Design Issues Spring 2012 MIT Press ISSN 0747-9360 E-ISSN 1531-4790 cover
V&A Magazine Summer 2012 issue 28 ISBN: 9-771465-829024 p.76
Fotograf | public art | magazine on photography and visual culture, #20 2012, pgs. 68 – 73 + 103
Contemporary art Journal, #14 2013, ISSN: 2092-8610 pgs. 48 + 104
BBC Brasil :Arte em Revista: Ativismo politico e arte se mistruan em galeria de Londres, 22nd May 2013, 21.41GMT and online http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/videos_e_fotos/2013/05/130522_arte_politica_gvu.shtml
ft.com/life&arts/visual arts, article Cultural Links by Rachel Spence, 11th January 2013 online http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5a55cdfe-54d2-11e2-a628-00144feab49a.html#axzz2IFoArcpa
The Times Saturday Review cover + inside pages 14th September 2013 review
Tamasha BBC Persia culture programme, Friday 18th April – 25th April 2013 exposé
Interview BBC News online Friday 11th October 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24479605
Evening Standard Thursday 10th October 2013 review
Today programme BBC Radio 4 11th October 2013 review
Art et Politique by Nicolas Martin and Eloi Rousseau, Palette 2013, ISBN:978-2-35832-145-7 pgs.5 + 83
Edinburgh Extra BBC4, Kirsty Wark interview/review DEMOTALK, 17th August 2014
etc….