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A new poster by Holly Graham

Hostilities Will Slip
A new poster created by Holly Graham in response to Artists' Film International 2024
26 September 2024

Holly Graham’s commissioned poster Hostilities Will Slip continues her engagement with Tony Dowmunt’s film Cultural Herb Festival (1983), which Graham screened in 2022 during her 2022 project ACTION!. Hostilities Will Slip was made in the wake of this year’s Notting Hill Carnival and after a turbulent summer when far right anti-immigration terrorists took to the streets. Graham’s poster draws on imagery from Dowmunt’s Cultural Herb Festival and considers how community events serve both as spaces for unity and cohesion, and act as symbols of vibrant multiculturalism that hide deeper systematic issues.

Cultural Herb Festival will be screened alongside other materials from the London Community Video Archive (LCVA), at FormaHQ as part of the wider screening programme for AFI'24, 26 September - 26 October 2024.

Profits from the sale of Graham’s poster will be donated to Young Roots, a Southwark-based charity that supports young refugees and asylum seekers, most of whom are alone in the UK without their families.

Designed and gifted by Holly Graham in response to Artists' Film International 2024 at FormaHQ.

With stills from Cultural Herb Festival (1983), Tony Dowment. Courtesy of Albany Video and the LCVA.


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Hostilities Will Slip

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Limited edition poster, colour printed on 250 gsm gloss paper
420 x 594 mm (A2)
Courtesy the artist, Tony Downmunt, Albany Video & the LCVA

£5

Hostilities Will Slip
A new poster created by Holly Graham in response to Artists' Film International 2024
26 September 2024

Holly Graham’s commissioned poster Hostilities Will Slip continues her engagement with Tony Dowmunt’s film Cultural Herb Festival (1983), which Graham screened in 2022 during her 2022 project ACTION!. Hostilities Will Slip was made in the wake of this year’s Notting Hill Carnival and after a turbulent summer when far right anti-immigration terrorists took to the streets. Graham’s poster draws on imagery from Dowmunt’s Cultural Herb Festival and considers how community events serve both as spaces for unity and cohesion, and act as symbols of vibrant multiculturalism that hide deeper systematic issues.

Cultural Herb Festival will be screened alongside other materials from the London Community Video Archive (LCVA), at FormaHQ as part of the wider screening programme for AFI'24, 26 September - 26 October 2024.

Profits from the sale of Graham’s poster will be donated to Young Roots, a Southwark-based charity that supports young refugees and asylum seekers, most of whom are alone in the UK without their families.

Designed and gifted by Holly Graham in response to Artists' Film International 2024 at FormaHQ.

With stills from Cultural Herb Festival (1983), Tony Dowment. Courtesy of Albany Video and the LCVA.

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Biography

Holly Graham is a London-based artist whose work looks at ways in which memory and narrative shape collective histories. Holly holds a BFA from Oxford University and an MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art. Current projects include commissions with UP Projects & Barnet Council (2024); TACO! (2021-24); and Manchester Art Gallery (2024). Recent solo projects include commissions with: Locales, Rome (2023); Deptford X (2023), London; Skelf, Online (2022); Robert Young Antiques, London (2021); Gaada, Shetland (2020); Goldsmiths CCA, Online (2020); and Southwark Park Galleries, London (2020). Holly is an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London; and is Co-Founder of Cypher BILLBOARD, London. She was awarded a Sainsbury Scholarship at the British School in Rome in 2023.

hollygraham.co.uk | @hollycagraham

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Limited edition poster, colour printed on 250 gsm gloss paper
420 x 594 mm (A2)
Courtesy the artist, Tony Downmunt, Albany Video & the LCVA

£5