Category: Art
Joe Magee is an artist, filmmaker and illustrator, exhibiting solo in London for the first time at The Modern Warehouse with The Day of the Aloof Icon. The work comprises new and old limited edition prints, some rare, at The Modern Warehouse, a showroom dedicated to the highest quality Scandinavian design.
Included in the prints is a re-editioned silk screen of Magee's 'Thatcher' print, an image commissioned and published by The Daily Telegraph in 2003. The image accompanied a consumer item but, unbeknownst to the newspaper the series of dots spread around the image was actually braille, and a sharp reader decoded it as 'Thatcher Fucked Us'. When it became apparent that the artist had been doing this for several weeks, embedding messages countering the newspaper's right-wing philosophy, he was promptly sacked, unpaid for his last 6 images. For which he remains unpaid. The show's not on for long so don't miss it!
Opening times: Thu–Sat 12–6pm