politic and mayhem

Images and collages inspired by the news particularly as shown in social media

Formal Reprimand

Figures from news articles on conflict and protest collaged together

The Spectacular Fall

Collaged images of news items of protests and conflicts

Earlier this year

From news articles from Afghanistan

They will not be silenced

Images from protests in the news collaged together

Window for Avoiding Catastrophe

A person wearing a virus mask walking past a shop with a closing down sale

Actions to Shield Households Horrifying

Senegalese miners collaged together

All I have got is this sunny afternoon

A crowded beach on a sunny afternoon

Lies Built Cages

Inspired by news from Paris

Monkeypox

A man and a microscope

The World Turned Upside Down

From the news, one way up shows famine the other way up shows war

Prepare Enact

From the news, soldiers on parade and a tank firing

Who knows which is which

Two persons on a homemade ladder, all destruction of the war not drawn.

Together We can get Somewhere

Sudhas in front of the temple and Boris Johnson

Worrying to be Free

Various persons from news articles on conflict

Passed Past

A collage of a tank and two migrants

To the Sky

Three persons displaced by conflict

Two Up, Two Down

Two cyclists in front of a bombed building

A Line has been Drawn

A ballerina and a boy fleeing Ukraine share the space in front of a ruin

A Safe Place

A column of persons at a border crossing

Newlyweds

Inspired by young couples in news reports from Ukraine

1500 Miles East

Persons in a tank in Ukraine

Now Go

Persons wearing virus masks in front of parliament in front of a protest poster

(Watching) as they walk by

Various persons with guns against camouflage background

Moving Along

A mother with two children in front of a tank.

Above and Below

Various persons in protective gear collaged in an underground station.

How Soon is Now

Various persons collaged together masks missing

Onrushing Restraint

Various persons rushing forward

You and Whose Army

One person arrested, all persons wearing virus masks collaged together.

Yuletide Emergents

Two persons wearing virus masks emerging from Christmas decorations

Social Discombobulation

A person wearing a virus mask shopping with details removed

Faces from the Crowd

Faces wearing virus masks shown in a curtain

Build and Consume

Various sized virus mask wearing school pupils collaged together

Edge of a Precipice

Various persons waiting in front of an ambulance abstract

Listening to Podcasts I

An abstract figurative response to listening to an interesting podcast.

When Shall We Meet Again

A sad man in front of three apparitions chanting protests

Opens His Throat to Sing

Three young people protesting climate change with slogans

More Readers

Inspired by Abdulrazak Gurnah in the news for winning the Nobel Prize

Red Button

A portrait from the news

The Party

German elections celebration

All Journeys Begin East

A sketch of Boris Johnson boarding a plane.

Slices of Red

Slices inspired by news photos of red carpet outfits.

Schadenfreude

A woman laughing into a megaphone behind various unhappy young people

Cover and Collude

A man with a gun squatting on the head of another man

Wait and Go

Two children waiting and two adults leaving

And the Walls were Very High

A young person is pulled up to a group on the top of a wall with barbed wire pattern.

Way In

Two women leaving a vaccination clinic with details mixed up on a swirling pattern

Where are they

Inspired by images from the news.

Rapid Enquiry

Inspired by persons in the news

After Talks Fail

Inspired by news articles on nationwide strikes

Suspected Subversion

Surreal respond to a police raid in the news

Enough to feed a family

Persons collaged together in a crowd

protest and pow

Inspired by images from Ukraine of protest and conflict

Cost of Living Accusation

An accuser accusing and a shopper shopping.

Conflict Cycle Model

A wheel of soldiers

Party People

Watercolour of politicians behind indrawing of football fans

It is a Mistake, It is a Mistake

A faded sketch of two wounded soldiers from the news

Inhalation Annihilation

A woman without a mouth sits in front of a ruined building

Notes on a Contention

Figures from news reports from Ukraine

The Machine Turning

Detail of soldiers riding on a tank

Take a Bow

The bow of a boat with refugees

The Waiting

A queue in front of a disproportionate ruin

Floodland

Reflecting flooding as a result of climate change

Ban Upheld

Inspired by news articles on hijab ban

Troops (of a column of people)

Four soldiers

Suburbia Schastia

A woman in front of a bombed building

Monstera Emergent

Persons fleeing Ukraine

Refuse to fight

A soldier behind an armoured vehicle behind a row of women

Crowd Fluid Dynamics

A crowd in ink with face masks in watercolour

(Tri)vialising the Taliban

Three persons from Afghanistan in the news.

From Tigray

A person and words from the news from Tigray

Arrivals and Departures

Various persons positioned in front of a railway station

Fortitude

Various persons waiting

Passing Offcomers

Different size persons passing each other

Monsters and Sycophants

Various persons wearing virus masks of various sizes watching or acting

For the Full Duration

Two persons wearing face masks for the full duration of their journey on the underground.

27 Die in Perilous Journey

A boat with migrants in front of shoppers in front of a great wave.

Three Waiting Chairs

Three seated persons wearing virus masks

Vista of the Depredated

A view through a distorting window of a crowded prison cell

Demonstrably Unambiguous

A portrait of a political point being made.

Incomparably Vaster

A naked man gesticulating in the chaos.

Actu Ally Ban

A collage of protesters and a poster saying actually ban conversion therapy

Invisible Banana Skins

Inspired by the the news

Foresight

Close-up portrait of a young protester from the news

Out of Use

An out of use sign from a petrol pump

Insulate

A collage of portraits of Insulate Britain protesters with their signs

Re-Garde

A soldier in front of an organic pattern

Rebuffed

Two politicians in a large scale as the background to a soldier and two workers

That Green and Pleasant

Women, one carrying a child, walking forward against a background of a soldier.

Foreshadow and Tarry

Various persons in different poses of waiting shown one behind the other

Commute Execute

Commuters from recent news articles shown one behind the other with only the first wearing a mask

Welcome to Kabul

A man with a gun and disproportionate features stands in front of a Welcome to Kabul sign

 
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