The Etiquette of the Arms Trade

The UK and US governments regularly grant export licences for arms sales to unstable states and repressive regimes. How are these deals validated? This project uses a body of artworks that I have made undercover in arms fairs to address this problem. It aims to show how the arms industry is given an appearance of respectability through rituals of etiquette, and to challenge this veneer by juxtaposing the art with research about the impact of arms sales.

Picturing security in an age of climate breakdown

With Rachel Julian

This project will bring Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists together with academics from Peace Studies and Graphics Arts using drawing, montage and animation to explore and challenge dominant discourses of security, to understand how we negotiate abstract concepts of the term in contrast to lived experience.