The Right to Protest

The Right to Protest, curated by Museum of UnRest and Pro Radix, brought together rare protest posters from two of the UK's leading private collections alongside new commissions, exploring the enduring relationship between design and dissent. The exhibition ran 18–28 September 2025 at Greatorex Street, London, as part of the Shoreditch Design Triangle and London Design Festival, and subsequently at Rockaway Park, Bristol, in 2026

For my contribution, I drew on the layers of fire and protest embedded in the London’s history. In 61 AD, Boudicca burned London to the ground in revolt against the occupying Roman legions, leaving a seam of oxidised red clay still visible in the soil today.

That same red clay is said to have been used by striking dockers in 1889 to dye the first red flag, tracing the modern symbol of workers' solidarity back to a pagan uprising against a ruling elite. The poster reworks elements of the Boudicca statue that stands outside Parliment, and John Opie's portrait of her, incorporating RESVRGAM - "I will rise again" - the motto Christopher Wren built into his redesign of St Paul's after the Great Fire.