About this Event
Walthamstow Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club venture into protest art, record sleeve design and artistic byways with a focus on a new book on Gee Vaucher.
As one of the people who defined punk's protest art in the 1970s and 1980s, Gee Vaucher deserves to be much better-known.
She produced confrontational album covers for the legendary anarchist band Crass and later went on to do the same for Northern indie legends the Charlatans, among others. More recently, her work was recognised the day after Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, when the front page of the Daily Mirror ran her 1989 painting Oh America, which shows the Statue of Liberty, head in hands. This is the first book to critically assess an extensive range of Vaucher's work. It examines her unique position connecting avant-garde art movements, counterculture, punk and even contemporary street art.
While Vaucher rejects all 'isms', her work offers a unique take on the history of feminist art.
Rebecca Binns is a writer and lecturer on art, design and cultural history.
An evening of art, though and music upstairs at Walthamstow Trades Hall.
We regret this part of the venue is accessed by steep stairs and is not fully accessible.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Walthamstow Trades Hall, 61-63 Tower Hamlets Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 4.00 to GBP 20.00