Art the Arms Fair donates work to the Peace Museum
The Peace Museum will display art from Art the Arms Fair
The partly Quaker-founded Art the Arms Fair, which was formed as ‘creative resistance’ to the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair in London, has donated some of its work to the Peace Museum.
Charlotte Hall, curator at the museum, told the Friend that the work has gone to the Bradford museum’s permanent collection and will go into an exhibition in June 2020 called ‘Protest! In Our Time’. She said: ‘We’ve got lots of 3-D objects and paintings that will look great in our exhibition. The art fair donates the work that doesn’t sell to us, which is great. There are some really amazing big mosaic rockets called Retro Rockets from the 2019 art fair and by Angus McBus, and lots by Darren Cullen whose work often features airbuses and aeroplanes and the impact they have transporting people and missiles. There’s also a jigsaw with the theme of someone walking through the woods, but, as you lift pieces off, they come off as missiles.’
The exhibition will be in June, and is running for its second year. The 2020 display will also feature artwork from the Extinction Rebellion movement, including what Charlotte Hall describes as ‘an amazing placard made from sustainable materials with the branches of a tree for a stick’.
