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Drumming up support for 'Artists for Brexit.' Painting by Stephen McLean |
'Artists for
Brexit', a brand new arts movement, was created recently in a Wetherspoon's pub
in London. It's not the first time inspired artists have created new collaborations
in a pub, but I have a notion this gathering of individuals just might merit a
mention in future annals of history.
Not all that long ago it was the poets, painters, songwriters and playwrights who were at the
forefront of social and political change. Artists and artisans were there at
the forefront in Renaissance and Enlightenment periods: since the early 19th
Century, bohemian cliques were always assumed to be lurking in the wings to
question and challenge the status quo.