All the Banners (Silent)
Venues
The Brickworks, Deptford X
19 July – 3 August 2025
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All the Banners (Silent) is a collection of hand-made interpretations of real banners originally made in 2018, showed at Deptford X as part of the 2025 festival.
They are representations of banner used in protests and rallies from the last 100 years: from Justice for Grenfell, to the Suffragettes, to pit closures and trade union marches. At a time when protest can feel futile – despite huge and regular protests against genocide in Gaza, calls for the UK to disarm and divest have fallen on deaf ears – and information overload means protest memes are shared and forgotten, the banners are themselves a procession of the history of struggle.