Tony Blair - Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillipps 2004 - 2007

While most Adobe Photoshop users world wide use Photoshop for image editing, some use it for making political and artistic statements. Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillipps are in collaboration on ‘Photo-op’ photo-montages with overt political meanings and messages.

No Thrid Runway - Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillipps 2004 - 2007

“kennardphillipps is a collaboration working since 2002 to produce art in response to the invasion of Iraq. It has evolved to confront power and war across the globe.”

Petrol War - Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillipps 2004 - 2007

Their involvement in collaboration, and participation in social cause is integral “to international movements for social and political change.”

Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillipps 2004 - 2007

Going beyond the usual practice of most modern artists, they not only sell prints, but use the images as a kind of activist outreach. “We want it to be used by people as a part of their own activism, not just as pictures on the wall to contemplate. To facilitate this, as well as selling our limited edition prints on the site enabling us to fund the making of the work, there is a free download page of images with a voluntary contribution to the International Solidarity Movement.”

There is a good review of the (now past) exhibition “Uncertified Documents”, Pump House Gallery, London on the Independent.co.uk website by Tom Lubbock. The exhibition is over, but the work is still timely.

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