The Right to Protest: the exhibition navigating counter-culture through archival activist design

"The design that underpins social and environmental justice is the Museum of UnRest's bread and butter. During its first iteration as Paddington Printshop in the 70s and 80s, it designed posters with activists, community groups, and local bands - the likes of Sex Pistols and The Clash's Joe Strummer. The space then morphed into London Print Studio over the 2000s and again, into today, it became the Museum of UnRest, where The Right to Protest is currently exhibiting."

"Each print withholds a story and is soaked in history. The Net is the world's largest screenprint from Ocean Rebellion, the maritime counterpart of climate group Extinction Rebellion. The record-breaking print represents the 150 metre wide "jaws of a bottom trawling net and has a scale and presence that's confronting", says Dave, who sees it as an exhibition stand-out. Clive was part of the crew who created it - he's a previous member of Extinction Rebellion and designed their recognisable graphic identity too."

The Museum of UnRest evolved from Paddington Printshop in the 1970s and 80s, then became London Print Studio in the 2000s. The Right to Protest exhibition displays bold screenprints with slogans like 'Read, rebel, revolt!', 'No War with Iran', and 'You are charged with conspiring to work for peace'. The exhibition spans protest movements including anti-apartheid, the trial of Vladimir Bukovsky, and opposition to the Iraq war. The Net, by Ocean Rebellion, is the world's largest screenprint, representing a 150 metre wide 'jaws of a bottom trawling net' with confronting scale. Clive designed Extinction Rebellion's graphic identity, contributed to The Net, and introduced Dave to John Phillips.

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